HEALING WORDS: Poetry and Medicine
A poignant and powerful documentary about the uses of poetry at a large teaching hospital in Florida. These days when we've 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 poet 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. Can poetry heal? This documentary gives a resounding YES!
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