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Hey there,
Theres an amazing documentary that debuted to rave reviews at a recent San Francisco film festival called "The Waiting Room".
It takes place at my place of employment Highland General Hospital ER.
Seen through the eyes of the patients who wait for care and care givers that provide it, it gives a fresh look at the whole health care debate.
The Director Peter Nicks recently was featured on the New York Times Opinion page with a short story and an accompanying 5 minute clip taken from the feature length documentary.
I'm in the full length version (that I have not seen in finished version yet actually) and that clip is also in the 5 minute clip on the New York Times site.
My 15 seconds of fame starts at around the 4 minute mark, though the whole clip (indeed the whole movie) is worth watching whenever possible.

Hopefully PBS will air the movie nationally this fall, if that happens I will let you know, it is a slice of my life for that past 26 years that is best viewed to fully comprehend.
The link to the New York Times is :
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/21/opini ... ef=opinion

I'm not sure how long they will leave that up there....

The site to the movie project is :
http://www.whatruwaitingfor.com/

also well worth looking at.

Just thought you might like to take a peek at it.
Baba

very cool! Amazing work you do!

I had to break the following post into 2 entries, not sure why I received odd error messages on a new page every time.

So last night the documentary movie The Waiting Room opened in select theaters around the Bay Area.
The Waiting Room was filmed at Highland Hospitals ER where yours truly Baba has worked for close to 26 years.
Its a pretty amazing film and fresh look at the old conundrum of our failing/failed health care system.
My wife, sister and I were at the sold out 7pm show last night and a news team grabbed me for a quick interview (local Fox affiliate wouldn't you know)
link to news story here:

Updated and corrected link here for when I was briefly interviewed:
http://www.ktvu.com/videos/news/oakland ... ing/vgFmj/

There is a quick one second shot of my wife and my sister and I sitting in our seats at the 1:25 mark of the news story, the clip from my interview starts at 1:27.

Its starting to get some much needed exposure with some very positive reviews in papers and media around the country.
The link to the New York Times review is here:

http://movies.nytimes.com/2012/09/26/mo ... .html?_r=0

Sounds like PBS will be showing it nationally on their "Independent Lens " series of Indie films.
I'lll keep you posted on when that will be.

Updated and corrected link here for when I was briefly interviewed (at the 1:25 mark):
http://www.ktvu.com/videos/news/oakland ... ing/vgFmj/