eAlert Thu, 04/05/2007 - 12:00 06f5f8d0-4e54-4a79-b8f9-f1a45e714023

<p>A new documentary, "Hold Your Breath," supported in part by The Commonwealth Fund, will air on select public television stations this month. Directed by award-winning filmmaker and physician Maren Grainger-Monsen, the film reveals the clash between ancient Islamic traditions and contemporary Western medicine. It follows a deeply religious Muslim immigrant from Afghanistan with cancer, and his Western medical doctor, as they try to find a common language while there is still time to provide potentially life-saving treatment.<br><br>For more information and for broadcast times, visit the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics Web site at <a href="http://medethicsfilms.stanford.edu/holdyourbreath/">http://medethicsfil…;

http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/newsletters/ealerts/2007/apr/new-documentary-highlights-cultural-miscommunication-in-medicine