Which evidence from the Newsela article "Health Benefits of Reading, Writing, Are Not Just for Patients" supports the central ideas that reading can help doctors to better treat their patients and that writing can help their patients heal?

Select the two correct answers.

"Harper says doctors who read stories are more understanding and, therefore, more compassionate or caring, more willing to listen to their patients’ stories."

“'If you have an experience and you sit down and write about it, you can pour that emotion out,' Harper says. Getting rid of these thoughts and emotions helps to find meaning in the death or the survival of a patient — and then allows you to move on with your life, he says."

"Coke points to books such as Frank McCourt’s Angela’s Ashes. In that book the author writes about growing up poor in 1930s and ’40s Ireland."

"For example, think of fairy tales that teach moral lessons. Or religious texts that wrestle with valleys of despair and mountains of hope, or poetry that cleanses the writer’s soul."

The evidences from the Newsela article "Health Benefits of Reading, Writing, Are Not Just for Patients" that supports the central ideas that reading can help doctors to better treat their patients and that writing can help their patients heal are:

"Harper says doctors who read stories are more understanding and, therefore, more compassionate or caring, more willing to listen to their patients’ stories."
“'If you have an experience and you sit down and write about it, you can pour that emotion out,' Harper says. Getting rid of these thoughts and emotions helps to find meaning in the death or the survival of a patient — and then allows you to move on with your life, he says."

When a claim is made, there needs to be supporting evidence that should help to backup the point made.

Here, the author claims that reading can help doctors better treat their patients and that writing can help their patients, therefore, he has to give supporting evidence that backs this up and proves it to be true, and he has done that.

Therefore, the correct answers are options A and B