SEQUIM — The first of three colorful patterned glass panels has been installed in the treatment room of Olympic Medical Radiation Oncology Center.
The panel is directly above the treatment table, allowing patients to enjoy it while enduring waves of radiation aimed at eradicating their potentially lethal disease.
It’s art therapy — a beneficial supplement to medicine that’s been around for many years.
“I consider these to be ‘visual therapy panels,’ and that’s what I call them,” said Dr. Clare Bertucio, a radiation oncologist, when plans for the glass panels were first announced.
Gil and Dale Simon created the colorful glass.
They own Stained Glass Overlay, a franchise operation in Carlsborg that turns plain glass into works of art replicating traditional stained glass.
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The rest of the story appears in Tuesday’s Peninsula Daily News.