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When a young doctor questioning his choice of profession has a chance encounter with cinema icon Marlon Brando, the ensuing conversation proves surprisingly profound -- not just for the doctor, but for Brando himself.
Story by Wayne Peter Liebman, from the files of Yarn AudioWorks.
Wayne Liebman is a physician, poet and playwright. To read more about his work, click here.
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When a young doctor questioning his choice of profession has a chance encounter with cinema icon Marlon Brando, the ensuing conversation proves surprisingly profound -- not just for the doctor, but for Brando himself.
Story by Wayne Peter Liebman, from the files of Yarn AudioWorks.
Wayne Liebman is a physician, poet and playwright. To read more about his work, click here.
Transcript
Wayne Peter Liebman: My name is Wayne Liebman, I was born in L.A. where I still live, and this happened many years ago when I was an intern in surgery at UCLA Medical Center, which is now called the David Geffen School of Medicine. It was another time and being a surgical intern was like being a P.O.W. You slept very little, you had no time, you essentially lived at the hospital. So one afternoon I was hanging out at the nurse’s station on 7 East with the nurses and behind me a couple of them started tittering and saying, No, it’s him! It’s him! It’s Marlon Brando! And this made no sense to me because I knew all the patients on the ward and Marlon Brando wasn’t one of them. But I looked down the hall and there was a man shabbily dressed leaning against the wall outside the room of a patient who’d just gone down for a kidney transplant and it was most definitely Brando.
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Posted on January 21, 2009 at 12:25 PM | Permalink
really compelling stuff
the writing, the delivery, the use of music --- this is great storytelling.