WHY DOCTORS WRITE
A documentary by Ken Browne
Photo Caption: Filming Dr. Audrey Shafer, Palo Alto VA Medical Center
Please help us capture these important stories!
Your donation will help us finish production and begin distribution in 2020.
To thank donors we are offering the following rewards, plus all donors will receive acknowledgement in the film credits.
$50 donation level:
Choice of Bellevue Literary Press book, including
Tinkers by Paul Harding (Pulitzer Prize)
Alpha by Bessora Barroux (amazing graphic novel)
Bellevue Literary Review prize winner edition
- others to choose from
$100 donation level:
Two signed books by writer-MDs from the film, including
Danielle Ofri
Rafael Campo
Irvin Yalom
Audrey Shafer
$200 donation level:
Choose one of following book packages:
First Avenue Hospital Package: Two signed books by writers affiliated with NYU School of Medicine/Bellevue Hospital, including Danielle Ofri, Barron Lerner, Samuel Shem.
Stanford Medicine and the Muse Book Package:
Two signed books by physician-writers at Stanford, including Irvin Yalom, Audrey Shafer, Hans Steiner, Anna Lembke, Julia Nordgren MD
Poet-Physician Book Package: Three signed volumes by poet-physicians, including Rafael Campo.
Plus download of Why Doctors Write before its general release.
$500 donation level:
A signed print of a Dr. Benjamin Schwartz New Yorker cartoon (limited)
Signed copy, The Principles and Practice of Narrative Medicine textbook
Plus download of Why Doctors Write before its general release!
$1,000 donation level:
Receive co-producer credit in the film
A signed print of a Dr. Benjamin Schwartz New Yorker cartoon (limited)
Receive one registration to the 2020 Examined Life Conference, October 8-10, at the Carver School of Medicine, University of Iowa, in Iowa City.
Download of Why Doctors Write before its general release.
Plus download of Why Doctors Write before its general release.
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