Lynn Hallarman

Palliative Care Policy and Educational Consultant, National Center for Equitable Care for Elders, Harvard University

Lynn Hallarman, MD served as the director of palliative medicine at Stony Brook University Medical Center in New York. She now works as a health policy and educational consultant for the National Center for Equitable Care for Elders at Harvard University and as a medical & arts freelance journalist.

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Written by Lynn Hallarman

A close up picture of hands playing a silver brass flute with a shallow depth of field such that the foreground fingers and keys are more in focus

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Music

To the tune of dystonia

One day, my hand stopped speaking to my brain. As a doctor and flute player, I had to understand this strange affliction

Lynn Hallarman