David Watts, MD; Foundation Director

David Watts, MD; Foundation Director

The Foundation for the Humanities in Medicine promotes humanistic qualities among healthcare professionals; furthers the complex process of healing by teaching the therapeutic effects of deep writing; equips poets and writers who have a focus on illness and healing with the tools of craft and poetic vision necessary to add a high quality body of work to the genre of health writing; and produces video documentaries that illuminate our understanding of poetry and healing.

 
He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge