https://padlet.com/professordianapaulin/vurp1pjag9awgnp3 According to Grainger-Monsen, what is the value of documentary in relation to healthcare? Provide an example from the film that supports her argument. en-us 2021-11-18 15:47:58 UTC 2026-01-25 21:40:48 UTC hello@padlet.com rileymorgan4 https://padlet.com/professordianapaulin/vurp1pjag9awgnp3/wish/1899951822 The value of the documentary is that it provides multiple different stories and perspectives that grab people's attention and spark conversation about such prevalent and violent issues in our society. Grainger-Monsen states in his article that he makes documentary films with the intent to "trigger discussions about important issues in contemporary healthcare". This is similar to what we were able to watch in the film because there were many intense stories that revolved around death, trauma, and serious injury. Watching the emotion shown in each person's story draws the watcher in and creates conversation as it makes them want to know more.]]> 2021-11-18 16:12:04 UTC https://padlet.com/professordianapaulin/vurp1pjag9awgnp3/wish/1899951822 hattiewags https://padlet.com/professordianapaulin/vurp1pjag9awgnp3/wish/1899958173 Maren Grainger-Monsen argues that character-driven documentaries are more successful in drawing the reader in than ones filled with lots of random interviews and facts. This is because the reader is able to connect with the specific characters and their stories, allowing them to better understand the meaning a documentary is trying to convey. This is shown through the documentary we watched when they flash a statistic about how "police officers have higher rates of alcoholism, divorce, and drug abuse" and also have "life expectancies of 10 years less than the average person." While this statistic alone is compelling, it doesn't come alive until the viewer is able to hear police officers tell stories of how their daily lives are actually affected and the trauma they face. Also, the fact that it's the same officers over and over again allows the reader to connect further and empathize with the officers' experiences.]]> 2021-11-18 16:14:46 UTC https://padlet.com/professordianapaulin/vurp1pjag9awgnp3/wish/1899958173 rhillenbrand13 https://padlet.com/professordianapaulin/vurp1pjag9awgnp3/wish/1899960622 Documentaries help make connections and create a story with characters/people that the viewer can relate to. Documentaries assist in drawing attention to the issues around the world that would not always be present within specific communities. This adds to the public's knowledge and removes dangerous stereotypes that can come from illnesses by humanizing the subjects. Concerning healthcare, documentaries assist in generating empathy and adding to new perspectives. In the film Worlds Apart, the documentary helps shine a light on both racial and ethnic disparities in healthcare. It was also a critical decision as to who they followed and showed in the documentary, as they wanted to avoid perpetuating stereotypes and allowing people to make baseless assumptions. ]]> 2021-11-18 16:15:45 UTC https://padlet.com/professordianapaulin/vurp1pjag9awgnp3/wish/1899960622 jennicacam https://padlet.com/professordianapaulin/vurp1pjag9awgnp3/wish/1899961207 The value of documentary in relation to healthcare is that it gives us insight into the individual stories of what it is like to be a healthcare worker. We are able to hear a first-hand account of the human toll on helping/health professionals, the meaning they find in their work, how do they cope, and who helps our helpers. We forget that the things they see, hear, and experience affect them, but they get up and do it every day. In the film, a healthcare worker said, "The work is fulfilling but it will never stop asking. So you have to figure out where your boundary is.”]]> 2021-11-18 16:16:01 UTC https://padlet.com/professordianapaulin/vurp1pjag9awgnp3/wish/1899961207 alexciadoak https://padlet.com/professordianapaulin/vurp1pjag9awgnp3/wish/1899964197 This documentary provided a nuanced perspective on the impact of empathy not only on the patient, but specifically on the caregiver. Empathy is incredibly important to caregiving, as the caregiver needs to take into account the patient's narrative, situation, and needs. However, this can not only lead to burnout as caregivers try to do the most for their many patients, but also secondary traumatic stress. Since we reflect others' emotions nonconsciously, it can result in this stress. This is why we need institutions in agencies and corporations that can address the mental health of their caregivers. This is often why there's therapists for therapists (although who is the therapist for the therapists for therapists). Overall, caregivers need to be people who want to help others rather than just have an important role or authority (like how a kid wanted to be a cop because it "gave him authority").]]> 2021-11-18 16:17:15 UTC https://padlet.com/professordianapaulin/vurp1pjag9awgnp3/wish/1899964197 gracesullivan8 https://padlet.com/professordianapaulin/vurp1pjag9awgnp3/wish/1899965892 "While sensationalism is the enemy, drama and suspense are the goals."
- Maren Grainger-Monsen

The value of documentary in relation to healthcare is that it brings health stories to life in suspenseful and dramatic ways. The drama of film draws in its viewers. It makes them care about the characters, their illness, and their story. By encouraging third-party people to become invested in a real story, watchers become advocates for the illness, the person, their caregivers, any reform associated with the topic, or whatever else the documentary calls to action. Moreover, documentary is an incredibly effective way to tell stories because it makes anecdotal experiences entertaining to learn about. When average people become educated about healthcare problems, they talk about them and raise awareness. With awareness, flawed systems can be changed. 
An example of drama and suspense in the film is when the interviews were cut off or went  to black and white as the speaker began to get emotional. Emotionally charged stories were often followed by a quote on a simple black screen. Suspense is created by allowing the viewer to reflect on the statistic or story. ]]> 2021-11-18 16:17:57 UTC https://padlet.com/professordianapaulin/vurp1pjag9awgnp3/wish/1899965892 adunster1 https://padlet.com/professordianapaulin/vurp1pjag9awgnp3/wish/1899968635 According to Grainger-Monsen, the value of documentaries concerning healthcare is to give a more intimate insight into healthcare/social workers' professions and their lives in general. Healthcare documentaries often focus on the medicine itself and the stories of care, not how healthcare professionals internalize medicine and stories of trauma. For example, a documentary may concentrate on the life of a social worker and how cases are solved and individuals are helped. In Grainger-Monsen's documentaries, she creates a documentary with the help of social workers and other healthcare professionals. Instead of creating a film on a case-by-case basis, general experiences are pooled to express how being in a profession where you are constantly working to fix those suffering can bring great bouts of secondary traumatic stress. One woman even confessed that there was a point in time where she passed out from being overwhelmed with her work and how it was her body's way of telling her that she had seen enough. By providing multimedia access into the lives of these workers, society can better understand their pain and how even those who strive to be a source of strength for others are human and are vulnerable to trauma.]]> 2021-11-18 16:18:49 UTC https://padlet.com/professordianapaulin/vurp1pjag9awgnp3/wish/1899968635 theresastrouse https://padlet.com/professordianapaulin/vurp1pjag9awgnp3/wish/1899968712 Documentaries are valuable in relation to healthcare because they help to make connections and give us insight into their lives and what it is like to be in their world. Documentaries, such as Portrait of Care give us an insight into the health care system at a much more personal level that grabs people's attention and helps them to better understand. As seen in the film we got a first-hand view of the struggles and traumatic experiences that health care workers endured and continue to push and work through. Documentaries also offer the workers perspective of the human toll their job has and ways that they think it has improved, like being able to show a more emotional side, and what more work they think has to be done.]]> 2021-11-18 16:18:51 UTC https://padlet.com/professordianapaulin/vurp1pjag9awgnp3/wish/1899968712 SamiyaMehammed https://padlet.com/professordianapaulin/vurp1pjag9awgnp3/wish/1899974959 I think the value of documentary in healthcare is it allows us the audience to put ourselves in the  position of the professional care providers and understand their pain and emotional cost in rescuing, assisting, and helping to heal the injured and traumatised.  When thinking of trauma we usually only think of the patients and not the physicians emotion and the sacrifice they put in which contributes to the healing of the patients. As one of the interviewee said “Compassion satisfaction is watching traumatized people go from a ball of fear to happiness."Therefore, the documentary enable me as an audience to think of a new perspective about how are professional care givers affected emotionally.According to Grainger-Monsen, documentaries help the audience to have a better understanding of the issue by making it a live story. ]]> 2021-11-18 16:21:14 UTC https://padlet.com/professordianapaulin/vurp1pjag9awgnp3/wish/1899974959 lucasteinert2 https://padlet.com/professordianapaulin/vurp1pjag9awgnp3/wish/1899984097 With a topic that is so broad and complex such as healthcare, documentary provide a bridge to the greater community to be able to experience and learn, maybe very generally, the many different unique aspects of healthcare. The advocacy and spread of different healthcare documentaries pulls in viewership and drives education, interest, and attention. Sometimes the first steps in an effort may be to just spread awareness and then from there can we move forward. Documentary have an amazing way of creating a connection and bond with the viewer thus creating a sort of empathetic bond between the two making the viewer connected to the documentary in a different way. Documentary provides a platform for stories to be told as well, to be able to share a perspective that most people may never experience or even hear about, but now can see. ]]> 2021-11-18 16:24:48 UTC https://padlet.com/professordianapaulin/vurp1pjag9awgnp3/wish/1899984097 alexciadoak https://padlet.com/professordianapaulin/vurp1pjag9awgnp3/wish/1900025453 The documentary provided a lot of insight into something that I had never really thought of, but at the same time, it had been in our faces all along. This is why I didn't want to go into pre-med. It broke my heart to see these people struggling without the adequate support that people who have different jobs would have to go through. The symptoms and long lasting trauma that so many people went through.... I have more to say but im the last to post in the class]]> 2021-11-18 16:39:50 UTC https://padlet.com/professordianapaulin/vurp1pjag9awgnp3/wish/1900025453 paulinarivera3 https://padlet.com/professordianapaulin/vurp1pjag9awgnp3/wish/1900039568 Grainger-Monsen believes that the value of documentary in relation to healthcare is that it allows the viewer to see and gain a new perspective. With this being said, Grainger-Monsen believes that the viewer's emotions are most likely to be picked at when viewing a health professional perform their job as well as observing the receiver. Reactions from other's allows us to feel sympathy, and it can also lead to getting a reaction out of us, the observer. In this way, the viewer is able to sympathize and connect and relate their past experiences to both parties. As the observer, we are able to see the negative and positive impacts on one another. Usually, when thinking of those who are dealing with a lot regarding health care, we tend to only think about the patient without giving the health care professional a second thought. The health care professional could be going through just as much as their patient due to them being able to sympathize and form a strong bond with their patient...]]> 2021-11-18 16:45:14 UTC https://padlet.com/professordianapaulin/vurp1pjag9awgnp3/wish/1900039568