Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

The waiting room / produced by Peter Nicks, William B. Hirsch ; produced by Linda Davis ; directed by Peter Nicks ; a film by Peter Nicks ; a co-production of Open'hood, Inc. and the Independent Television Service (ITVS) in association with Peer Review Films.

Publisher, Date:

[New York, New York] : Docurama ; Cinedigm Entertainment Corp., [2013]

Description:

1 DVD video (approx. 81 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

digital optical

video file DVD video region 1

Summary:

A character-driven documentary film that goes behind the doors of an American public hospital struggling to care for a community of largely uninsured patients. Young victims of gun violence take their turn alongside artists and small business owners who lack insurance. The film weaves the stories of several patients-as well as the hospital staff charged with caring for them-as they cope with the complexity of the nation's public health care system, while dealing with a national recession.

Target Audience Note:

Rating: Not rated.

Subjects:

Highland Hospital (Oakland, Calif.)

Hospitals -- Emergency services.

Health care reform -- United States.

Medical policy -- United States.

Medical care -- California -- Oakland.

Medical economics -- California -- Oakland.

Community life -- California -- Oakland.

Nonfiction films.

Documentary films.