The Waiting Room

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dave d A frightening look at an emergency room, health care, and insurance. It is ugly and harrowing and just about everyone's worst nightmare, but this doc brings the tension. Final Score: 8/10 Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member An eye opening look into the ER waiting room of a hospital in California. The film takes an objective and at times emotional perspective on the events of the hospital without over emotionalizing them. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Audience Member sad to see how screwed up the health care system is Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/24/23 Full Review Audience Member perilous failure of insurance that leaves so many people flooding ERs who are barely equipped for such massive swaths of ill people Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/11/23 Full Review Audience Member Amazing documentary! Should be required viewing for every member of Congress. This is what you face if you're uninsured and unemployed or one of the working poor in America. It HUMANIZED these people. And the patience and compassion of the medical professionals was nothing short of heroic as they struggled to meet people's needs day after day in a system that was never designed for it. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/02/23 Full Review Audience Member This is a very good piece of evidence, as to why the health care system in this country has to be reformed. People without insurance can only be seen in the emergency room, and looking at urban areas, that means hundreds of people waiting hours, days, even weeks for medical care. In one instance of the film, a man with a bullet wound is left to sit for an entire day, going numb throughout his body. A young girl is rushed through, an older man tries to get help when there's no one able to, and a homeless man takes attention away from less endemic cases as he's rushed through the ER. It's a very stressful environment that's portrayed, and the implications of not having insurance are strongly shown. The people in the documentary are also quite interesting, and at times it feels more like a film than a realistic portrayal of a hospital. There's the sassy nurse, the hopeful and yet defeated doctor, the strange people coming through the ER, trying to get treatment. Not only does this film educate, but entertain, and that's difficult with such a small space and time to work with. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/11/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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