Documental que desvela les profundes injustícies de l'assistència sanitària als Estats Units. Coneixerem les interioritats d'un sistema de salut corrupte i abusiu, basat en els serveis mèdics que presten les mútues privades, que deixa sense atenció mèdica gairebé 50 milions de ciutadans i que, alhora, maltracta els assegurats escatimant-los les prestacions i la cobertura a què tenen dret. Michael Moore ens presenta diversos exemples dramàtics i els compara amb el tracte que reben els ciutadans que resideixen a països com Canadà, França, el Regne Unit o fins i tot Cuba, que gaudeixen d'un sistema de cobertura sanitària pública gratuïta.
When Harvard PhD student Jennifer Brea is struck down at 28 by a fever that leaves her bedridden, doctors tell her it’s "all in her head." Determined to live, she sets out on a virtual journey to document her story—and four other families' stories—fighting a disease medicine forgot.
Inside the dramatic search for a cure to ME/CFS (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome). 17 million people around the world suffer from what ME/CFS has been known as a mystery illness, delegated to the psychological realm, until now. A scientist in the only neuro immune institute in the world may have come up with the answer. An important human drama, plays out on the quest for the truth.
Medical drama about a major hospital whose emergency room regularly faces an overload of patients. One of the doctors finds it necessary to adopt an unorthodox procedure to try to save a patient, and finds himself in trouble in consequence.
Toronto psychiatrist Gordon Warme M.D. claims to be a participant in a vital cultural ritual, “one of countless rituals that give relief to humans...the most culture-bound of creatures.”
As obesity progresses inexorably, Sylvie Gilman and Thierry de Lestrade investigate the causes of this planetary plague and reveal the fight waged in certain countries to stem it.