Living in Emergency: Stories of Doctors Without Borders

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12/18/2013 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. See more 10/02/2012 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. See more 01/04/2012 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. See more 09/11/2011 Though difficult to watch in spots, it is well worth your time. See more Tim G @tmgreene22 08/10/2011 Depressing yet informative. At the same time limited, unfortunately. See more 06/22/2011 Anyone who needs a reality adjustment should take a look at this sobering documentary. See more Read all reviews

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