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• Why Use Documentary to Enhance Medical Education?

  “The teenagers I photographed taught me a lot, even as many of them struggled with serious challenges in their own lives. Having gone out to meet with them in their world, I came away with no neat formulations about teenage pregnancy but rather a richer, more accurate context in which to see them, and I hope, better understand their experience.” – John Moses, M.D. (Duke Medical Perspectives, Volume 17, Number 2)

• "Once we allow ourselves to listen with compassion and to let the full implications of their suffering register on us, we are in a position to change the state of affairs. It will not always lead to a cure, and it will not always lead to a change in the medical treatment, but it can lead to a radical change for the patient. It can confer recognition and communion, ending the isolation and strangerliness of sickness." -Rita Charon, general internist and director of Columbia University's Program in Narrative Medicine, from the book "Let me take a listen to your heart."

About the Project Provided by the patients, their friends, families, and caregivers of those diagnaosed with lung cancer, these very personal stories offer inspired insight into the ways families and professionals care for both themselves and the patient, gain a deeper understanding of the relationships, and learn to come to terms with the end of life. [...]

About the Film In 1964, Leon Fleisher’s career as a concert pianist was thriving. A seemingly minor accident – a cut on his right thumb – led to dystonia, the involuntary curling of his right hand’s ring and little fingers. In recent interviews, Fleisher talks about what followed: the end of a marriage, despair and [...]

The Book The Body at Risk: Photography of Disorder, Illness, and Healing is the first book to explore the ways that photojournalists and social documentarians have conceptualized the human subject as a site of both good and ill health. The volume looks at photographs depicting child laborers; Depression-era health programs; general medical care in the [...]

About the Exhibit unremarkable…a term meaning lacking distinction …the word you want to hear when receiving the results of medical scans unremarkable is a journey through cancer, chemotherapy, radiation, and recuperation, showing that the voyage can be one of physical and spiritual recovery instead of a spiral into illness and despair. unremarkable was motivated by [...]

The Film A LION IN THE HOUSE follows the stories of five exceptional children and their families as they battle pediatric cancer. From the trauma of diagnosis to the physical toll of treatment, this series documents the stresses that can tear a family apart as well as the courage of children facing the possibility of [...]

About the Film What would you do if you were 29 and found you may only have a few years to live? So Much So Fast is about the remarkable events set in motion when Stephen Heywood discovered he had the paralyzing neural disorder ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease). Made over 5 years, So Much So Fast tracks one [...]

THIN is a cinema-verité exploration that follows four girls, Brittany, Shelly, Alisa, and Polly in their daily lives at the eating disorder treatment center as well as the workings of the treatment center itself. The documentary explores the process of treatment, the cycle of addiction, and the unique relationships, rules and rituals that define everyday life within the treatment center.

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