Dr. Robert Zarr steps into the patient room and sees a teenage girl. Lately, the 17-year-old has been experiencing repeated panic attacks, giving her so much chest pain that she had to be rushed to the emergency room each time.

She's looking for answers from Dr. Zarr. Instead, it's Zarr who asks a question.

"Do you have a way to spend time outside?" he says.

"Well, there's this hammock at my dad's house," she replies.

"What about lying there for a while, and just noticing the leaves?" Zarr suggests.

The girl says she could do that. So Zarr writes out the prescription: Once a week, on Wednesdays after school, the 17-year-old is to lie on the hammock and look up at the trees, listen to the wind and feel nature around her.

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