Living in Emergency: Stories of Doctors Without Borders

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Audience Member Rather than going in depth, "Living in Emergency" is loaded with examples to demonstrate various ways it is difficult to treat people in poor countries as a doctor who is used to the clinical endowment afforded by wealthy economies. It's so demoralizing, most volunteer doctors don't ever do more than one trip. The movie is perhaps too spread out, following four doctors in four different hospitals and hardly adventuring out from their management of chronic frustrations at day-to-day limitations and defeats, but it succeeds in showing us both the emotional toll of being such a doctor and why some are still able do it anyway. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/23/23 Full Review Audience Member Doctors working for Doctors without Borders, known internationally as MSF (Medicins sans Frontiers), struggle with the challenges associated with practicing medicine under the worst conditions. I think I've fallen in love with Dr. Chiara Lepora. She evinces everything this film is about: she's strong-willed, caring, and aware of the distance between what is and what should be. And she's kinda hot. But what one leaves with is a recognition of both the pressures associated with this work and the rewards, and for me, Lepora became the metonym for all of this. This documentary displays the poverty, the sickness, and the triumph that working with MSF entails, and the doctors emerge as flawed heroes, which, in this world, are the only real kind of heroes that exists. Overall, I thoroughly enjoyed this film, and if I ever meet Lepora, she's going get my number. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/26/23 Full Review Audience Member Not to be heartless but I didn't find it to be too compelling or say/show anything I wouldn't have guessed or expected. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/07/23 Full Review Audience Member Though difficult to watch in spots, it is well worth your time. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/16/23 Full Review Tim G Depressing yet informative. At the same time limited, unfortunately. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 08/10/11 Full Review Audience Member Anyone who needs a reality adjustment should take a look at this sobering documentary. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/22/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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