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Anna Deveare Smith might be best known for her role as a bossy hospital administrator in the television show Nurse Jackie, but she is most acclaimed as gemstone jewelry a playwright, actress and documentarian whose scripts are based on her interviews with real people. "I put myself in people's words the way you think of putting yourself in someone's shoes," she says.

Smith's new one-woman play, Let Me Down Easy, in which she is performing off-Broadway in New York, focuses on health care.

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In the show, Smith portrays more than 20 people, some famous and others unknown. And as she steps into each character, Smith explores the myriad ways we cope with physical injury and illness in our current health care system. She also addresses how healing depends on more than well-trained doctors or advanced technology; it depends on  pearl jewelry wholesale each person's attitude about their bodies and their lives--and how they think about death.

In fact, one reason health care is such a prickly topic, she suggests, is that it prompts us to contemplate mortality, something most of us would rather avoid.

In an interview with ForbesWoman, Smith talked about what motivated her to create her new play and how performing it has altered her views on the pearl beads health care system.

ForbesWoman: What led you to create this work?

Smith: I was commissioned by the Yale School of Medicine in the late 1990s to interview patients and staff, and I did a first performance--playing the people I'd talked with--on medical rounds. I was very drawn to the stories I heard, and have since interviewed 300 people in many countries.

Your characters run the gamut from Lance Armstrong and film critic Joel Siegel contemplating his mortality to the director of a South African inflatable water games orphanage who has comforted many children dying of AIDS. How did you find them?

I traveled to many places--a U.S. army hospital in freshwater pearl jewelry Germany, New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, Rwanda and all over the U.S.

What did you learn?

Not everyone gets the same health care. A lot depends on how much money you have or your station in life. Because [model] Lauren Hutton is beautiful, she knew someone influential who could help her when she needed medical help [after a serious motorcycle accident.] If you were a patient at Charity Hospital in New Orleans, however, when Hurricane Katrina hit, no one came to naughty castles evacuate you.

Doing this play, I learned to marvel more about the power of bodies--and the fact that we don't all have equal amounts of physical power. But there's also the power of the spirit: Some people have a great sense of determination and hope when coping with illness. They have the ability to keep looking for the possibility of everything being all right.

What's more important when dealing with illness--medical technology or inner strength and love?

One medical school dean told me, "We can look inside cells and genes now and diagnose in ways we never were able to before--but we've lost the understanding that the person sitting across from us is a full human being."

Do you think there's the will to akoya pearl necklace  improve the health care system in the U.S.?

There seems to be the will to pearl jewelry  fight about it, so there has to be a will to improve it. I hope there are creative people who are invested in our potential to be well instead of always equating health care with sickness and catastrophe.

When I was a child and doctors still made house calls, my parents would be angry if the doctor didn't actually do something, if he said "nothing's wrong." That should have been good news, but when that happened, they felt his house call was a waste of money.

We should celebrate being well.

How do you expect health and health care to freshwater pearl pendant look going forward?

We live in a global community now, so we'll come into contact with diseases we never knew about. But because we're global, we also have the opportunity to find out more about the mysteries of our bodies and spirits.

And what are your hopes for health and health care in the future?

In Uganda, I went to cultured akoya pearl a forest to watch healers collect herbs and, in the process, to come in touch with their ancestors. We have to look beyond science to find real healing. And we have to stop thinking about doctors as gods who can solve everything--or continue going to [more] doctors if we're dissatisfied with the care they give.