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HBO OKs medical drama pilot with Abrams


January 04, 2007 HBO has given the green light to a medical drama pilot that J.J. Abrams is in negotiations to executive produce and possibly direct. The untitled project, from feature writers Tom Schulman, an Oscar winner for 1989's "Dead Poets Society," and Rafael Yglesias, is a hospital drama that explores the battle against cancer from the patients' point of view. How People Prevail in the Face of Illness by Jerome Groopman, a professor at Harvard Medical School and writer for the New Yorker.

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