https://www.whydoctorswrite.org/home daily 1.0 2021-05-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6e6862e286a858d1db998c/1606776756960-VK9Y8NNGJYZM85E4WH16/OFRI+WRITES+AT+HOME+1.jpg Home Why Doctors Write We meet Dr. Danielle Ofri, an internist at the Bellevue Hospital clinic who writes about her patient Mr. Ayala in her book Journeys with My Patients, as they work through a defibrillator implant procedure that goes wrong. We hear how her writing lead to the founding of the Bellevue Literary Review in 2000, the first writing journal based at a hospital. We also meet students at NYU School of Medicine in a Storytelling and Medicine seminar taught by Sam Shem, author of the classic novel The House of God. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6e6862e286a858d1db998c/1606838019901-FO6GV8KI5DZYRMSE9KUB/Narrative+Medicine+training+at+Farrell+clinic+shoot+1.2.jpg Home What is Narrative Medicine? Dr. Rita Charon, an internist at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital and professor of medicine at the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons spent eight years working towards a PhD in English from Columbia in 1999. Her interest in literature and medicine lead to the creation of the Program in Narrative Medicine, which has grown into an international field of study in medical education. As Dr. Charon and Dr. Deepu Gowda narrate the dramatic growth of Narrative Medicine, we watch Dr. Gowda lead a narrative medicine training at an upper Manhattan family health clinic with the goal of strengthening the cohesion of healthcare teams. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6e6862e286a858d1db998c/1606837679261-VFQTNKFT56GQWI9TXI5H/Story+Slam+readers+in+Cleveland+2019.jpg Home Story Slam: Medical Student Edition Ohio has been a center for writing and humanities in clinical settings since an NEH grant helped the launch the Center for Literature and Medicine in 1990. Today amidst a vibrant medical humanities community, the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine hosts an annual Story Slam by medical students in a downtown Cleveland brewery. The event brings together students for an emotionally charged program featuring guest speaker Dr. Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu, a psychiatric resident in Cambridge, MA and a columnist for STAT news. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6e6862e286a858d1db998c/1606836976291-NA3QVCFDCMDOEWR46WG8/Screen+Shot+2020-12-01+at+10.30.46+AM.png Home Anesthesia and the Muse Dr. Audrey Shafer, an anesthesiologist at the VA Palo Alto Medical Center, was drawn to writing as a medical student at Stanford School of Medicine. Today she directs the Medicine & the Muse program at Stanford, and is one of the founders of The Pegasus Physician Writers group. The film documents her commitment to patients, students, and colleagues expressed through her writing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6e6862e286a858d1db998c/1606836608468-XBN0STUB24IGHS07DA84/RAFAEL+CAMPO+with+patient.jpg Home The Stethoscope Replies Among the many primary care doctors at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, unbeknownst to most his clinic patients is one of the best-known physician-poets of our time - Dr. Rafael Campo. Dr. Campo explains his belief in the power of poetry and the humanities as he treats his patient Rob, also a writer, after a diagnosis of ocular cancer. We also watch Dr. Campo and his students in a Writing Workshop at Harvard Medical School around the theme of “grief.” https://www.whydoctorswrite.org/about daily 0.75 2021-01-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6e6862e286a858d1db998c/1605387446024-DXICBM07WXXZMNED5Y2G/jennifer.png About - Dr. Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu Tobias Keene, D.D.S. Hailing from Richmond, Virginia, Dr. Tobias Keene brings a bit of unabashed Southern hospitality to all his patients. He moved to Washington, D.C. over thirty years ago as a freshman at Ivy College. Right after graduation, he attended World University’s School of Dentistry. Before opening Keene Dental in 1994, he worked for free clinics and some of the finest practices in the District. He is part of the 123 Dental Association and stays up-to-date on the latest dental discoveries. When not striving to keep his patients happy and healthy, he’s enjoys hiking with his family in Rock Creek Park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6e6862e286a858d1db998c/1606858372777-85Q9PBB6TU88KISBPE5G/great+RC+smile+portait.jpg About - Dr. Rafael Campo Rafael Campo, MD teaches and practices medicine at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. Author of eight highly acclaimed books, he is the recipient of many honors and awards, including a Guggenheim fellowship, an honorary Doctor of Literature degree from Amherst College, a National Poetry Series award, and a Lambda Literary Award for his poetry; his third collection of poetry, Diva (Duke University Press, 2000), was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He currently serves as Director of Literature and Writing Programs of the Arts and Humanities Initiative at Harvard Medical School and Poetry Section editor for JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association. rafaelcampo.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6e6862e286a858d1db998c/1606767906952-DJ1GHT8CLKNYRZTYFW1N/OFRI+FILMED+WRITING+%40HOME.jpg About - Dr. Danielle Ofri Danielle Ofri MD, PhD is one of the foremost voices in the medical world today, speaking passionately about the doctor-patient relationship and bringing humanity back to health care. She is an internist at Bellevue Hospital, the oldest public hospital in the country and Editor-in-Chief of the Bellevue Literary Review, as well as a clinical professor of medicine at NYU School of Medicine. danielleofri.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6e6862e286a858d1db998c/1606858346159-A119W311TA0T1CCXVJP6/Deepthiman+Gowda.png About - Dr. Deepu Gowda Tobias Keene, D.D.S. Hailing from Richmond, Virginia, Dr. Tobias Keene brings a bit of unabashed Southern hospitality to all his patients. He moved to Washington, D.C. over thirty years ago as a freshman at Ivy College. Right after graduation, he attended World University’s School of Dentistry. Before opening Keene Dental in 1994, he worked for free clinics and some of the finest practices in the District. He is part of the 123 Dental Association and stays up-to-date on the latest dental discoveries. When not striving to keep his patients happy and healthy, he’s enjoys hiking with his family in Rock Creek Park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6e6862e286a858d1db998c/1606858324043-FTW5D4AXOA53R74K3AIL/Shem+leads+NYU+seminar+.jpg About - Samuel Shem Tobias Keene, D.D.S. Hailing from Richmond, Virginia, Dr. Tobias Keene brings a bit of unabashed Southern hospitality to all his patients. He moved to Washington, D.C. over thirty years ago as a freshman at Ivy College. Right after graduation, he attended World University’s School of Dentistry. Before opening Keene Dental in 1994, he worked for free clinics and some of the finest practices in the District. He is part of the 123 Dental Association and stays up-to-date on the latest dental discoveries. When not striving to keep his patients happy and healthy, he’s enjoys hiking with his family in Rock Creek Park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6e6862e286a858d1db998c/1606858396841-E5FI2VH5DT3FMHBHV3P6/audrey+at+VA+2.jpg About - Dr. Audrey Shafer - Pegasus Physician Writers Audrey Shafer, MD is an anesthesiologist at the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, and Professor at Stanford University School of Medicine. She directs the Stanford Medicine & the Muse Program, and is a co-founder of the Pegasus Physician Writers. She wrote The Mailbox, a children’s novel on post-traumatic stress disorder in veterans. Her poetry on medical and family life has been published in journals and anthologies and heard on NPR. ashafer.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6e6862e286a858d1db998c/1606858003130-HIZTQT351AL1018IWBSE/Ken+Browne+directs+Pegasus+interview.jpg About - Ken Browne Director Ken Browne After becoming an Emmy Award winning film editor and producer with Major League Baseball, Ken Browne launched his company in 1986 which has produced sports docs, corporate films, and video to support school success and university outreach. Ken’s belief in the impact of the arts and education has inspired PBS documentaries, including Four Hands One Heart (2000), Mondays at Skimmilk (2008) and Small School Big City (2011). Look! I’m in College! (2010), which chronicled the first NYC public school students with autism to attend college, earned the Paul Robeson Award for Best Short Documentary at the 2010 Newark Black Film Festival. A native New Yorker, Ken resides in Montclair, New Jersey. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6e6862e286a858d1db998c/1606767819729-ATGAVR8YKNG72ZDP6HQS/RC+white+coat+1990s+2.jpg About - Dr. Rita Charon Rita Charon, MD, PhD is a general internist and literary scholar who originated the field of narrative medicine. She is Professor and Chair of the Department of Medical Humanities and Ethics and Professor of Medicine at the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons and Executive Director of the Columbia Division of Narrative Medicine. Her work in narratology focuses on intersubjectivity, reader theory, and the works of Henry James. Her research investigates narrative medicine training, reflective practice, and health care justice and has been supported by the NIH, the NEH, and private foundations. She has authored, co-authored, or co-edited four books on narrative medicine. 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