NICKS: Well, documentaries take a long time to get off the ground. Why does this best portray for you a day at this hospital? There's no expert interviews in here that you're featuring. HEADLEE: And you sort of cobble together footage that you took over a period of months, right, and then turned it into one day at this hospital with no narration. As I was graduating grad school, my wife was coming out with her master's in speech pathology and she took a job at this hospital and she would come home with stories about her patient population that really struck me and got me thinking that it would be a great place to tell a story about a community that's sort of struggling through, not just major health issues, but also economic and systemic problems that affect many inner city communities around the country. NICKS: The genesis for it was really the late '90s. HEADLEE: This has been a long time coming, so can you remember your initial motivation, what made you start this project? He joins us now from our bureau in New York. Douglas White, one of the health care professionals featured in "The Waiting Room." The documentary opens today in New York, then it rolls out to other cities around the nation and it's the work of Emmy-winning filmmaker Peter Nicks. We're an institution of last resort for so many people. It's not ideal, but we're a public hospital. at Oakland's Highland Hospital, where many of the patients suffer from illnesses that become emergencies because they lack insurance and access to care.ĭOUGLAS WHITE: There are times I have to admit people to the hospital, keep them overnight, just as much for their social conditions as for their medical ones. The new award-winning documentary, "The Waiting Room," focuses on a day in the E.R. On television and in movies, the emergency rooms of big city hospitals are places of high drama, with doctors working furiously to save gunshot victims, those hurt in car accidents and people who are suffering a medical crisis, like a heart attack.īut that's just part of the story.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |