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  title info:
    title: Critical condition
  name:
    name part: Weisberg, Roger.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Public Policy Productions, Inc
  type of resource: moving image
  genre: videorecording
  genre: Internet videos.
  genre: Documentary television programs.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2008
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (83 min.).
  abstract: What happens when you re sick and uninsured? The unforgettable people in this film discover that it can cost you your job, health, home, savings, and even your life. Critical Condition puts an intimate human face on America's growing health care crisis by chronicling the struggles of a diverse group of uninsured Americans as they battle critical illness over a two-year period. Joe Stornaiuolo, a doorman for fifteen years, loses his finger, then his job, and ultimately his health insurance. Unable to afford the medication or doctor visits he needs to manage his progressing liver disease, Joe is hospitalized four times in one year and dies on November 30, 2006 from a lack of medical coverage, according to his loving wife. Karen Dove loses her insurance because her deteriorating health forces her to quit her job as an apartment manager. When Karen begins experiencing severe recurrent abdominal pains, the doctors she contacts are unwilling to see uninsured patients. After she finally finds a gynecological oncologist willing to treat her a year later, she is diagnosed with Stage 3 Ovarian Cancer, which is almost always terminal. Carlos Benitez, an uninsured chef at a French restaurant, has a severe back deformity that has caused him fifteen years of chronic pain and taken seven inches off his height. After learning that the County Hospital will not perform surgery, Carlos becomes convinced that the only way to find a cure without insurance is to travel to Mexico, where the orthopedic specialists recommend he undergo surgery as soon as possible. Hector Cardenas takes a medical leave from his job as a warehouse supervisor when his diabetes necessitates an amputation for a gangrenous foot. The loss of his job and insurance force Hector to struggle to repair his broken temporary prosthesis on his own. He feels trapped, as he cannot earn money without a permanent prosthesis, and he cannot afford the prosthesis without employment and decent medical benefits. No matter how stag…
  target audience: For College; Adult audiences.
  target audience: general
  note: produced and directed by Roger Weisberg, Public Policy Productions.
  note: Originally released as DVD.
  note: Title from resource description page (viewed May 24, 2011).
  note: Slide.
  note: Closed-captioned.
  note: Arizona International Film Festival, 2008
  note: Film Society of Lincoln Center's Independents Night, 2008
  note: Tiburon International Film Festival, 2008
  note: Worldfest-Houston International Film Festival, 2008
  subject:
    topic: Health insurance
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Medical care
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Medically uninsured persons
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    geographic: United States
  classification: RA395.A3 W457 2008
  related item:
    identifier: NNVG16720
  related item:
    identifier: 767685148044
  related item:
    identifier: (OCoLC)266073273
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: VaAlASP
    record creation date: 080405
    record change date: 20260324203323.1
    record identifier: in00003747218