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Living in Emergency: Stories of Doctors Without Borders
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  • Summary: Two volunteers are new recruits: a 26 year-old Australian doctor stranded in a remote bush clinic and an American surgeon struggling to cope under the load of emergency cases in a shattered capital city. Two others are experienced field hands: a dynamic Head of Mission, valiantly trying to keep morale high and tensions under control, and an exhausted veteran, who has seen too much horror and wants out. Amidst the chaos, each volunteer must confront the severe challenges of the work, the tough choices, and the limits of their own idealism. (Truly Indie)… Expand

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  1. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Lucy Barber
    88
    A remarkable look at the people behind an organization that understands its limitations.
  2. NPR
    Reviewed by: Ella Taylor
    85
    More than anything, though, Living in Emergency leaves us wanting to know more about what makes these four people tick differently from the rest of us -- we who balk at anything riskier than signing petitions and joining Facebook protest groups.
  3. Time Out New York
    Reviewed by: Nicolas Rapold
    60
    Documentarian Mark N. Hopkins gives us a mature look at the bracing yet very human personalities attracted to crisis.

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