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The waiting room / Bullfrog Films presents ; International Film Circuit ; ITVS ; Open'hood ; Peer Review Films ; produced by Peter Nicks, William B. Hirsch, Linda Davis ; directed by Peter Nicks ; a film by Peter Nicks ; executive producers, William B. Hirsch, Scott Verges ; executive producer for ITVS, Sally Jo Fifer.
Van Pelt - Video Collection (ask at Circulation Desk) DVD 022 911
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- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Emergency Service, Hospital.
- Community life.
- Medical economics.
- Medical care.
- California.
- California--Oakland.
- Economics, Medical.
- Health Policy.
- Medically Uninsured.
- Quality of Health Care.
- Social Conditions.
- Hospitals--Emergency services.
- Hospitals.
- Health care reform--United States.
- Health care reform.
- United States.
- Medical policy--United States.
- Medical policy.
- Medical care--California--Oakland.
- Medical economics--California--Oakland.
- Community life--California--Oakland.
- Oakland (Calif.)--Politics and government.
- Oakland (Calif.).
- Oakland (Calif.)--Social conditions.
- Medical Subjects:
- Emergency Service, Hospital.
- California.
- Economics, Medical.
- Health Policy.
- Medically Uninsured.
- Quality of Health Care.
- Social Conditions.
- Genre:
- Medical films (Motion pictures)
- Documentary films.
- Feature films.
- Video recordings.
- Personal narratives.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (82 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- 4 3/4 in.
- Place of Publication:
- Oley, PA : Bullfrog Films, [2012]
- Language Note:
- In English with optional subtitles in English for the hearing impaired.
- System Details:
- DVD; widescreen.
- digital optical
- Dolby Digital
- NTSC
- video file DVD video region 1
- Summary:
- A character driven documentary film that uses extraordinary access to go behind the doors of an American public hospital struggling to care for a community of largely uninsured patients. The film offers a raw, intimate, and even uplifting look at how patients, staff caregivers each cope with disease, bureaucracy and hard choices.
- Contents:
- Theatrical version (82 min.)
- Classroom version (62 min.)
- The waiting room
- storytelling project.
- Credits:
- Cinematography by Peter Nicks ; original music by William Ryan Fritch ; edited by Lawrence Lerew.
- Notes:
- Originally released as a motion picture in 2012.
- Winner, San Francisco Film Critics Circle, Best documentary, 2012 ; San Francisco International Film Festival, Golden Gate award, Audience Award, 2012.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781937772499
- 1937772497
- OCLC:
- 841237099
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