A Long Wait

Do you love medical shows, like Grey's Anatomy, or ER? Watch the real thing, it is so much more dramatic. We have a new DVD from PBS called The Waiting Room:24 hours, 241 patients. One stretched ER.
This really illustrates in dramatic fashion what people go through when they don't have health insurance. What happens is they go to the emergency room, in this case a hospital in Oakland California. Fascinating, dramatic and sometimes so sad, this viewer was riveted. The New York Times gave this a Critics' Pick and the Washington Post review said it was "As poetic and universal as a modern-day Grapes of Wrath." ML