The Waiting Room

A real—life hospital emergency room drama, THE WAITING ROOM goes behind the closed doors of a public hospital struggling to care for a community of largely uninsured patients. The stories of several patients and the hospital staff charged with caring for them lay bare the struggle and determination of both a community and an institution coping with limited resources and no road map for navigating a health care landscape marked by historic economic and political dysfunction. THE WAITING ROOM is a film about one hospital, its multifaceted community, and how our common vulnerability to illness binds us together as humans.