College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Why Doctors Write: Finding Humanity in Medicine
Section Event
The College of Physicians of Philadelphia‘s Section on Medicine and the Arts invites you to a film screening of Why Doctors Write: Finding Humanity in Medicine, followed by a panel discussion moderated by Douglas Reifler, MD.
This program is co-sponsored by The Leslie Nicholas, MD, Lecture, and The Edward D. Viner Center for Humanism at Cooper Medical School of Rowan University.
About the film:
Why Doctors Write: Finding Humanity in Medicine explores the impact of writing, the arts, and the humanities in a place not usually associated with them— the world of medicine. In an age of technology, physician burnout, and depersonalized patient care, clinicians have turned to these tools to care for themselves and colleagues, and to renew their connection to patients. Why Doctors Write goes in search of the practitioners who are finding humanity again in medicine.
About the 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.
About the Panel:
John Coulehan, MD, MPH, FACP
Jack Coulehan is a Professor Emeritus of Family, Population, and Preventive Medicine at Stony Brook University and Senior Fellow of the Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics.
Rosalind D. Kaplan, MD, FACP
Rosalind Kaplan is a writer, physician, and educator at Thomas Jefferson University and the author of Still Healing: A Doctor's Notes on the Magic and Misery of a Life in Medicine, specializing in medical humanities, eating disorders, women's health, and narrative medicine.
Mara Gordon, MD
Mara Gordon is a family physician and writer based in Philadelphia. Mara’s writing has appeared on NPR, in the New York Times, the Atlantic, the Philadelphia Inquirer, STAT News, and elsewhere.
The panel will be moderated by Douglas Reifler, MD, Senior Associate Dean for Student Affairs and Medical Humanities at Cooper Medical School of Rowan University. A reception with light refreshments will follow.
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