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Here is the documentary description from the producers, HEALING WORDS PRODUCTIONS:
HEALING WORDS: POETRY & MEDICINE is a poignant and powerful documentary about the uses of poetry and the other expressive arts at a large teaching hospital in Florida. These days when Americans have grown cynical about health care costs, impersonal treatment, and the intrusion of corporate self-interest in the doctor-patient relationship, Healing Words reminds us of the best medicine can offer: a doctor at the bedside, really listening to a patient. Dr. John Graham-Pole and poetry therapist John Fox enter hospital rooms and help patients write poems as part of their healing process. Viewers will be touched by the ways in which poetry builds compassion between doctor and patient. In answer to the question, Can poetry heal? This documentary gives a resounding YES!
Producers: Joan Baranow, James Cavenaugh, Victoria Chaban, David Watts, MD; Narration: Peter Coyote; Directors: James Cavenaugh, David Drewry; Original Music Score: Noa Winter Lazerus; Running Time: 56:46
PBS National Broadcast of HEALING WORDS: POETRY & MEDICINE With John Fox at Shands Hospital in Gainesville, Florida - This July, 2008!
To learn about this breakthrough film, view a trailer and how you can locate your local PBS affiliate to request a good time slot for airing...
This July, 2008: PBS National Broadcast of HEALING WORDS: POETRY & MEDICINE
With John Fox at Shands Hospital in Gainesville, Florida
This breakthrough film features John Fox and the team of the Arts in Medicine program working with patients both young and older. Also featured are three compassionate physicians who speak from unique perspectives about the value of including arts in the hospital environment.
The documentary shows the moving experience of both patients and physicians in using poetry as healer.
HEALING WORDS will be fed by satellite on July 1st to PBS stations across the country. Each station chooses to broadcast the documentary on that date or tape it for presentation later.
Some of you have already seen this film in preview form and know how important and inspiring it is. Whether you have seen it or not, you can help assure a national broadcast of HEALING WORDS: POETRY AND MEDICINE by contacting the programming director of your local PBS affiliate. Let them know about the satellite feed on July 1st. Ask them to give HEALING WORDS: POETRY AND MEDICINE a good time slot!
Your call will make a huge difference! The Institute for Poetic Medicine and the filmmakers will be extremely grateful for your support.
To Locate Your Local TV Stations that Air PBS: Click here!
(If there is more than one station, please consider contacting each station).
CONTACT: Joan Baranow
Healing Words Productions
73 Hillside Avenue
Mill Valley, CA 94941
(415)-318-8641
e-mail: jbmadsong@comcast.net
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