Mark Wilkerson talks about the pressure he’s under after being laid off from his job as a supply clerk. He doesn’t know when he’ll find work and is struggling to manage his health without insurance. But Mark believes God will bless him. “It’s gonna be all right.”
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The Waiting Room: Breathing Lessons
7-year-old Nia Walker is treated for her asthma problems. After the doc checks her out, Nia sips on a carton of milk while her parents discuss healthcare costs, universal healthcare, and the high asthma rates of African Americans. More video from The Waiting Room. Read More…
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The Waiting Room: Serenade
CNA Cynthia Johnson gets serenaded in the waiting room. More video from The Waiting Room. Read More…
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The Waiting Room: Lucy’s Patients
Highland Hospital Volunteer Lucy Ogbu talks about her desire to help communities in need and her dream of becoming a doctor. More video from The Waiting Room. Read More…
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About the Storytelling Project
The Waiting Room Storytelling Project is a location-based social media and community engagement initiative that aims to improve the patient experience through the collection and sharing of digital content. This cultural data – video, data visualizations, photographs and text – is collected in the waiting room by creating frameworks for sharing that range from anonymous expressions of feeling to deeper storytelling. The primary aim of the platform is to uncover the needs of underserved patients at a moment when the role of the “Safety Net” is being debated both in America and abroad. We also aim to develop tools for Read More…
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The Waiting Room: Under Pressure
Mark Wilkerson talks about the pressure he's under after being laid off from his job as a supply clerk. He doesn't know when he'll find work and is struggling to manage his health without insurance. But Mark believes God will bless him. "It's gonna be all right." More video from The Waiting Room. Read More…
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The Waiting Room: Blessed
Kamal Conyers talks about his gratitude for having someplace to go despite not being able to afford health insurance. More video from The Waiting Room. Read More…
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The Waiting Room: Mi Hermano
Guadalupe Zavala waits in the Highland Hospital ER waiting room for her brother to receive treatment for high sugar levels. More video from The Waiting Room. Read More…
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The Waiting Room: Fatherhood
William Morgan and his three sons Matthew, Joshua and Andrew wait for their mom to get medication to treat her diabetes. Read More…
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Trailer: The Waiting Room
The Waiting Room is 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 – using a blend of cinema verité and characters’ voiceover – offers a raw, intimate, and even uplifting look at how patients, staff and caregivers each cope with disease, bureaucracy and hard choices. The ER waiting room serves as the grounding point for the film, capturing in vivid detail what it means for millions of Americans to live without health insurance. Young victims of gun violence take Read More…
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