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“Why Doctors Write”: Film and Panel Discussion

Join Bellevue Literary Review and Ken Browne Productions for an exclusive screening of the award-winning documentary Why Doctors Write: Finding Humanity in Medicine. Following the screening of the 35-minute documentary, BLR‘s editor-in-chief Danielle Ofri moderates a live conversation with two other doctors from the movie, Rafael Campo and Jennifer Adaeze Owerekwu, along with director Ken Browne.

ABOUT THE FILM

Why Doctors Write: Finding Humanity in Medicine is a documentary feature film about the intersection of medicine and literature. It brings viewers into areas of the medical world where creative writing and reflective reading are transforming doctors, nurses, medical students, and other healthcare workers. This growing movement is renewing humanism in medicine, at a time when technology, managed care, and other constraints encroach upon the doctor-patient connection. The film was featured at the 2020 United Nations Film Festival. www.whydoctorswrite.org

ABOUT THE PANELISTS

Jennifer Adaeze Owerekwu, MD, MS, is currently a Women’s Mental Health Fellow in the Department of Psychiatry at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She is a columnist for STAT and focuses on her medical training.

Rafael Campo, MD, MA, is an internist at Harvard Medical School and Poetry Editor for JAMA New work appears in  American Poetry Review, Poets.org, and Scientific American.  His most recent book is Comfort Measures Only: New and Selected Poems.

Ken Browne is an Emmy Award winning producer of documentary films about education, sports, and the arts.

Danielle Ofri, MD, PhD, is a primary care doctor at Bellevue Hospital in New York City, and editor-in-chief of the Bellevue Literary Review. She is a clinical professor of medicine at NYU. Her newest book is When We Do Harm, A Doctor Confronts Medical Error.











When: Mon., Jan. 11, 2021 at 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
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Join Bellevue Literary Review and Ken Browne Productions for an exclusive screening of the award-winning documentary Why Doctors Write: Finding Humanity in Medicine. Following the screening of the 35-minute documentary, BLR‘s editor-in-chief Danielle Ofri moderates a live conversation with two other doctors from the movie, Rafael Campo and Jennifer Adaeze Owerekwu, along with director Ken Browne.

ABOUT THE FILM

Why Doctors Write: Finding Humanity in Medicine is a documentary feature film about the intersection of medicine and literature. It brings viewers into areas of the medical world where creative writing and reflective reading are transforming doctors, nurses, medical students, and other healthcare workers. This growing movement is renewing humanism in medicine, at a time when technology, managed care, and other constraints encroach upon the doctor-patient connection. The film was featured at the 2020 United Nations Film Festival. www.whydoctorswrite.org

ABOUT THE PANELISTS

Jennifer Adaeze Owerekwu, MD, MS, is currently a Women’s Mental Health Fellow in the Department of Psychiatry at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She is a columnist for STAT and focuses on her medical training.

Rafael Campo, MD, MA, is an internist at Harvard Medical School and Poetry Editor for JAMA New work appears in  American Poetry Review, Poets.org, and Scientific American.  His most recent book is Comfort Measures Only: New and Selected Poems.

Ken Browne is an Emmy Award winning producer of documentary films about education, sports, and the arts.

Danielle Ofri, MD, PhD, is a primary care doctor at Bellevue Hospital in New York City, and editor-in-chief of the Bellevue Literary Review. She is a clinical professor of medicine at NYU. Her newest book is When We Do Harm, A Doctor Confronts Medical Error.

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