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thanks very much to David we really
appreciate the museum hosting this
screening and discussion and thank you
to you all for coming out tonight to see
an advanced screening of doctor's
Diaries which officially airs as a
special two-part Nova on Tuesday April
7th and April 14th at 8:00 p.m. on PBS
nationally and locally on WGBH Channel
to so please set your DVRs if you're not
going to be home at that time because it
really is a terrific program now as we
move into our 36th season which is an
eternity in television Nova will
continue to report on the most powerful
thought-provoking and significant
science stories of our time this summer
we're also presenting new episodes of
Nova science now our spin-off Science
magazine series hosted by astrophysicist
Neil degrass Tyson it's now in its
fourth season the series has really
taken off with an enthusiastic fan base
including more younger viewers and
families watching together this season
Nova science now combines its signature
visual style and humor to cover stories
on artificially engineered diamonds that
could be used in supercomputers and
advanced electronics and more technology
that can make anyone's singing voice
Pitch Perfect perfect and whether the
benefits of exercise can be contained in
a pill plus one scientist profile per
episode and 24 New webon Scientist
profiles so I hope you'll tune in when
the season starts on June 30th Nova
science now will Air Tuesdays at 900
p.m. directly after Nova at 8:00 pm so
save your Tuesday nights for good summer
science fun now a bit more on our
feature film tonight doctors's Diaries
is a very unique long range project in
fact it's the longest running us
documentary of its kind for the past 22
years Nova's cameras have been following
a group of seven doctors from their
first day at Harvard Medical School all
young bright and accomplished none of
them could have predicted what it would
take personally and professionally to
become a member of the medical tribe our
cameras have been there through the
difficult years of class classes in
clinical training internship and
residency marriage and divorce and out
into the world as fully trained
physicians at a time when there's a
national dialogue around healthc care we
see up close and personal what goes into
the making of a doctor and What Becomes
of them in this moving final episode I'm
very pleased that two of the doctors
featured in the film Dr Jay Bonner and
Dr Le Jane leoes are here tonight and
will be available aable for questions
following the clip and also making the
trip from London is producer and
director Michael Barnes Michael
conceived the idea for this project and
has enthusiastically filmed each of the
five installments of the series and now
please enjoy a compilation of scenes
from the two-part Nova special doctor's
Diaries uh Dr J boner as you saw in the
clip graduated from Harvard Medical
School in 1991 and did his residency in
Psychiatry at the Cambridge hospital
he is currently a private practice
psychotherapist in Belmont and works in
the outpatient personality disorder
clinic at McLean Hospital in addition Dr
boner is currently a candidate at the
Boston psychoanalytic society and
Institute and Dr Jane leoes another star
of the film she also graduated from
Harvard Medical School in 1991 she did
her residency in Internal Medicine at
Boston City Hospital and another in
preventative medicine in public health
at Boston University Medical Center Dr
lebes is a primary care physician at
Boston Medical Center she's also
associate professor of medicine and
Public Health at Boston University
School of Medicine and as well is author
of a physician's guide to identifying
and managing violence against
women so I'll start off with a question
to uh each of our panelists and then I'd
like to open up um questions to you all
we have um some people with microphones
so um when the question time is open
please raise your hand and they'll come
around so that um you can all be heard
with your questions so uh first I think
I'll start with Paula uh Paula why did
you think that this project was
important for Nova to
produce well I think that it was very
important for um you know Nova's one of
our main goals and I think one of the
things that differentiates Nova from
many of the other science and science
light programs on uh American television
perhap particularly cable television
is um that we emphasize the scientific
process and we also emphasize putting a
human face on science really trying to
find out who the people are behind the
lab Cod and the same thing I mean what
could be more important than medicine
understanding I mean we all we all have
many people don't know a scientist we
all have doctors and um and I think
understanding the process by which
person gets educated and what people
have to go through to become a physician
I think can only
expand their understanding um especially
in a time when Health Care is just so
vitally important when it's part of the
national dialogue so I never questioned
I I knew this was a series that really
um required a lot of resources from Nova
and it's really hard in television today
to sustain something for 22 years I I
can't tell you and also I've always been
a fan of Michael abed's work which he's
made the famous Seven Up series and and
I know Michael was too so I never
questioned that this that this was
really important how to do it is a
different story but uh but that it was
important that Nova ought to undertake
it was never in question okay well that
leads to a question to Michael um in
directing this project what sort what
were some of the challenges you faced in
in filming over the 2122 years well a
couple of things come to mind um I often
felt it was like making a a wildlife
document
you uh you spent a lot of time in sort
of places that you weren't entirely
welcome and were extremely uncomfortable
and uh you knew that there were these uh
extraordinary rights of Passage that uh
these doctors in the making were were
going to experience but uh it would be
pure luck uh and a little judgment if
you ever got them on film so in some
ways it was uh you know I think we shot
about 500 hours in the total for this uh
for for for all the films in
in in the five installments so I think
that that was a difficult thing but the
and the other thing is that I always
tend to approach
documentaries um as a story and um and
you know life is you know all our lives
are a model and so one's uh trying to
impose some sort of structure and auth
authenticity on the story and it's it's
difficult because I think one of the the
judgments of whether we've been true to
the spirit of uh Jay and Jane's lives is
actually um I always think what would it
be like to watch the scene in the same
room of them as them and and if I'm
deeply embarrassed then I probably have
not been fair to them or to the story
and I tonight was a pretty good test of
that and I'm probably going to have some
words later
but well I hope you're not embarrassed
and uh Jane you and Jay either but um
Jay what what sort of appealed to you
about this project and and and may have
pursed ued you to join it in the first
place I had been mad at my parents for
not signing me up to be one of the zoom
kids when I
was and I thought this was my big
chance
um yeah something like
that I didn't think it through