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Audience Rating: Unrated Binding: DVD EAN: 0841887009690 Format: NTSC Label: PBS (DIRECT) Manufacturer: PBS (DIRECT) Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: PBS (DIRECT) Region Code: 1 Release Date: 2008-08-12 Running Time: 60 Studio: PBS (DIRECT) Theatrical Release Date: 2008
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Thoughtful, moving, powerful Comment: This film is an hour-long look at the practice -- the very uncommon practice - of using poetry and art as part of an effort to re-humanize modern medical care. Perhaps because I am a doctor myself, I feared from the title that the film would be maudlin, saccharine, or depressing. It is none of these things. Instead, this is a thoughtful, moving, and powerful examination of the efforts of several doctors to re-infuse emotional connection and healing into the technology-dominated enterprise of giving medical care to sick and dying people. The film portrays not only the effect of using poetry in medicine on the patients, but also on the doctors themselves, and on a group of up-and-coming medical students. Even though the subject matter sounds very heavy, the film itself is not; it's inspiring. I thought about it for days afterward, weeks -- heck, I'm still thinking about it. I encourage anybody who is a doctor or a patient or anyone who may one day become a patient, to watch this extraordinary film. More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: This documentary tells the stories of patients whose lives have been dramatically changed as a result of Dr. John Graham-Pole and poetry therapist John Fox's incorporation of poetry into their recovery process. At a time when Americans have grown cynical about health-care, this film affirms that poetry and art can build understanding and compassion between doctor and patient and help facilitate healing among the most critically ill.