San Francisco -
CBS 5's Anne Makeovec is slated to interview Peter Nicks 7:45 a.m.
Saturday June 30 on KPIX during the weekend morning show. Nicks' film
"The Waiting
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Peter Nicks-Director & Cinematographer
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Room" will be screened later at the Lorraine Hansberry Theatre Saturday
evening. Nicks will comment on The Supreme Court's landmark 5-4
decision Thursday to uphold President Obama's health care mandate that
includes a provision for most Americans to have health care. His
insights will be based on the findings he discovered while filming "The
Waiting Room."
As part of the Summer@LHT Series, "The Waiting
Room" by Peter Nicks will screen 7 p.m. Saturday, June 30 at the
Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, 450 Post Street@ Powell, Union Square. Art
will bring light to the Obamacare/scare debate.
"The
Waiting Room" is a character-driven documentary film that uses
extraordinary access to go behind the doors of Highland 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.
Nicks'
documentary is an intense day-in-the-life portrait of people in need
of medical care, and the doctors, nurses and social workers that
provide for them. As the pendulum swings
from the underemployed to chronically destitute, the patients present a
stark portrait of America's dual economic and healthcare crises: a
middle-aged man with agonizing spinal bone spurs who must continue to
work to pay the bank to keep his home; an addict with severe breathing
issues with few options; and a 15-year-old gunshot victim whose body is
temporarily held as crime scene evidence, among other life vignettes,
"The Waiting Room" paints a picture of America's health care realities.
A panel discussion will follow the film (81 minutes) to include: Director and Cinematographer
Peter Nicks,
Vicki Alexander, MD, MPH-Black Infant Health Program, Chair, Alameda County Medical Center, Transitional Board Chairperson;
Dr. Mack Roach, III, internationally renowned UCSF radiation oncologist;
Karen Permillion, Patient Services Supervisor;
Melanie Tervalon, MD, Pediatrician/Healthcare Consultant;
Charlotte Wills, MD, Resident Physician Supervisor, Highland Hospital Emergency Room,
Ricka L. White-Soso, MSW, LCSW, CEAP, ER/Trauma Center Social Worker, Highland Hospital with moderator veteran journalist
Brenda Payton, former columnist at the Oakland Tribune.
Reserved Tickets for "The Waiting Room" start at $15.00. Use Coupon Code:
Hospital for 20% on all tickets.
Summer@LHT
Series brings awareness and support of the Lorraine Hansberry Theatre.
Next Summer@LHT event: Tony Saunders "Romancing the Bass," August
10th.
Find out more visit
www.lhtsf.org. |
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