Doctors in Montreal can now prescribe their patients tickets to the orchestra

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Doctors in Montreal can now prescribe their patients tickets to the orchestra

The project is an example of social prescribing, a phenomenon that’s expanding across Canada

Sheena Goodyear · CBC Radio · Posted: Oct 30, 2025 2:19 PM PDT | Last Updated: October 30

Doctors in Montreal are prescribing music as medicine.

The Montreal Symphony Orchestra has teamed up with a national physicians’ organization to develop a new program that allows doctors to prescribe their patients free tickets to shows.

“Physicians will get prescriptions that they will give to patients. The patients will call us. And we will give each patient that calls us two tickets for free,” Mélanie La Couture, CEO of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, told As It Happens host Nil Köksal.

“They can select the concert they want.”

It’s the latest example in Canada of what’s known as social prescribing, in which health-care providers prescribe things that are normally outside the scope of medicine, but can have tremendous impact on people’s health and well-being — like art, nature or community activities.

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