The Wait to Nowhere: When a Crisis Goes Untreated reveals an unspeakable reality: children living in the ER for days, weeks and even months at a time, awaiting dedicated care. This film explores the issue and touches on solutions. True stories are told by those living this nightmare, including hospitals that are caught up in a failed system, while lawmakers help lay out a plan to address the crisis before even more children’s lives are lost.
Heidi Baskfield
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Steve Beshear
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John Kasich
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Katherine Junger
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James E. Shmerling
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Ron-Li LiaW
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The Wait to Nowhere: When a Crisis Goes Untreated reveals an unspeakable reality: children living in the ER for days, weeks and even months at a time, awaiting dedicated care. This film explores the issue and touches on solutions. True stories are told by those living this nightmare, including hospitals that are caught up in a failed system, while lawmakers help lay out a plan to address the crisis before even more children’s lives are lost.
A really powerful, emotional investigation into issues plaguing the pediatric mental health system: specifically, the lack of a robust pediatric mental health system in this county. Saw it with a panel discussion from the filmmaker and local mental health providers—it’s also been screened for multiple health care organizations and government officials, and it needs to be seen by more. The filmmakers sat down with the parents of pediatric psych ED patients, as well as adult former patients, hospital staff and administrators, and a bipartisan pair of lawmakers. The key message: an underdeveloped system forces children who need intense psychiatric support to languish in ERs around the country, waiting for placement in what may only be a few long term treatment beds in an entire state. It’s a terrible system, and everyone involved realizes it, but are hampered by severely access to long term psychiatric care of any sort, let alone for children. It’s rare for a doc about the failures of the medical system to feature so many figures from within prominent hospital systems stating so openly that they know how clearly they’re failing their patients—it clearly frustrates and bothers these provides, staff and administrators that they’re unable to provide the care they know will help, but can’t send patients anywhere else to get it. It’s effective evidence of how bad the problem has become. The film presents compelling patient and parent experiences on how ER boarding of children with psychiatric illness not only doesn’t help, but worsens problems, and how it stands in stark contrast to the ways the health care system is resourced to address medical needs (as a adult neurologist, I can say with confidence that the system is not always great at that either, but the point the film makes is strong nonetheless). While clear answers are not easy to come by, the filmmakers bring out some voices that are working to improve the system, while making a strong case for the necessity of greater public attention and advocacy. There is considerably more to investigate here, including the roots of the problem, the factors that have increased it over time, and the reasons as to which states fail to provide services that existing law requires, not to mention more in-depth analysis of possible solutions.
A visual montage portrait of our contemporary world dominated by globalized technology and violence.
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An unflinching look at the how the battle over abortion rights has played out in the United States over the last 15 years.
One man's journey to discover the bitter truth about sugar. Damon Gameau embarks on a unique experiment to document the effects of a high sugar diet on a healthy body, consuming only foods that are commonly perceived as 'healthy'. Through this entertaining and informative journey, Damon highlights some of the issues that plague the sugar industry, and where sugar lurks on supermarket shelves.
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Iverson is the ultimate legacy of NBA legend Allen Iverson, who rose from a childhood of crushing poverty in Hampton, Virginia, to become an 11-time NBA All-Star and universally recognized icon of his sport. Off the court, his audacious rejection of conservative NBA convention and unapologetic embrace of hip hop culture sent shockwaves throughout the league and influenced an entire generation. Told largely in Iverson's own words, the film charts the career highs and lows of one of the most distinctive and accomplished figures the sport of basketball has ever seen.
A paralysingly beautiful documentary with a global vision—an odyssey through landscape and time—that attempts to capture the essence of life.