Why Doctors Write looks at a growing national movement in
medicine to use writing as a way to provide support for clinicians
and improve communication and care for patients. This half-hour
documentary goes in search of the clinicians that are passionately
leading this work in New York, Boston, and Palo Alto.
Biography:
Ken Browne broke into television production in the 1980’s as
a film editor with Major League Baseball and went on to produce the
weekly NY Yankees Magazine show from 1985 to 1999. Ken Browne
Productions began in 1990 to meet the demand for training and
marketing videos for educational clients including the New York City
Department of Education, Pace University, and the Fashion Institute
of Technology-SUNY. A belief in the power of the arts has inspired
Ken to develop documentary film projects for public television. Four
Hands One Heart (2000) tells the story of the Scheiers, America’s
first couple of studio pottery, Mondays at Skimmilk: 30 Years of
Writers at Work (2008) chronicles the bonds of friendship in a
writer’s workshop, and Look! I’m in College! (2009), the
story of students with autism going to college, earned the Paul
Robeson Award for Best Short Documentary at the 2010 Newark Black
Film Festival. Learning of the growth of health humanities and
writing by doctors has led to Ken’s new film Why Doctors Write:
Finding Humanity in Medicine. With generous support from the
Arnold P. Gold Foundation, and the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation, he is
honored to premier the film at the 2020 Medicine & the Muse
Virtual Symposium. The premier is dedicated to all the healthcare
workers at the frontlines of treating the COVID-19 pandemic.
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