Getting It Right, Write, Wright: Notes from a Physician Writer (March 18, 2009)

Daniel M. Becker, M.D., M.P.H., M.F.A. (Professor of Medicine and Public Health Sciences and Director, Center for Biomedical Ethics and Humanities, University of Virginia) introduced the "The Moore Lecture of the School of Medicine" and the speaker, Dr. Eckert. N. Lynn Eckert (Director for Academic Programs, Partners Harvard Medical International; Professor, Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Massachusetts Medical School; and Senior Lecturer, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts) was featured in this lecture as part of the Virginia Festival of the Book in her role as playwright. Dr. Eckert described the processes of creating a written work. She discussed the research/fact finding process (getting it right), the actual writing in correct literary form, and the crafting or building of the final product which is dependent upon a community of reviewers. To highlight her points, she used her experiences with writing the play, A Lady Alone, and read illustrative passages. This play tells the story of the life and times of Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910), the first female physician to graduate from the Geneva Medical College in Upstate New York.

Co-presented with the Virginia Festival of the Book.

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Education

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