This essay topic asks you to answer why it is important for health care providers to study the humanities. As you do so, consider these questions: What does studying the humanities give us that mere scientific study and exploration cannot? What does contemplating art and considering the beauty of the human experience, even a painful one, bring to the healthcare provider's landscape of understanding that simple anatomy or biology cannot? Before setting out to write your essay, look back on your experience reflecting on various poems, paintings, and other media. Think about what you were able to experience vicariously through the words, expression, and visualization of the artists. Consider what new knowledge, understanding, sensitivity, or sensation you were able to encounter that you would not have experienced otherwise. As you answer the essay questions: . include your observations and reflections from your favorite discussion posts and the ideas and discoveries the works of art from the modules inspired in you . consider the words of Martignoni, et al. and incorporate their concepts where appropriate . incorporate your own thoughts and interpretations that may not have been specifically articulated in your reading and other materials