May 20, 2015

Mark F. Brady, M.D. ’02 produces emergency medicine documentary

 

callout documentary bradyMark F. Brady, M.D. ’02, an emergency medicine doctor who has studied at Brown, Harvard, Yale, and in London, has produced a documentary on emergency medical services and emergency medicine that began airing on Rhode Island PBS in late December.

The documentary, 24/7/365: The Evolution of Emergency Medicine, is narrated by Anthony Edwards of ER and Top Gun fame.

A biology major and a Roddy Scholar at PC who was chosen for Brown’s prestigious Early Identification Program, Brady was assisted in making the documentary by one of his Brown medical school professors, Brian Zink, M.D. Zink is chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Brown University and chief of emergency medicine at Rhode Island Hospital and Miriam Hospital, all in Providence.

It was Zink’s book, Anyone, Anything, Anytime: A History of Emergency Medicine (Mosby, 2005), that inspired Brady to specialize in the field and subsequently, to take a closer look at modern emergency medicine in documentary form. Brady’s documentary chronicles the emergence of emergency medical services and the specialty of emergency medicine. It addresses the social, technological, and political forces that shaped the emergency medical system as it is known today.

“This is a story about mavericks in the medical field … mavericks who went against the medical establishment to meet the changing needs of patients in the ’50s and ’60s,” said Brady, who screened the documentary at PC in November.

In addition, the documentary can be watched online at 247365doc.com.

After graduating from PC in 2002, Brady took a gap year and worked at a children’s hospital in Cambodia, then walked the Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine. A member of the U.S. Navy Reserves, he returned to Rhode Island and studied for three years at Brown’s Alpert Medical School.

Brady, who played lacrosse at PC and attended nearby La Salle Academy in high school, later  attained additional advanced degrees from Brown, Harvard, and at Yale, the latter through the school’s affiliation with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He currently serves as an emergency medicine physician at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Memphis, Tenn.