Coming to Independent Lens: The Waiting Room
Preview: Season 14 | 2m 16s
Coming this fall to PBS.
The Waiting Room is a cinema verité portrait of one California city's public safety-net hospital as it struggles to handle patient overload in a swooning economy and a constantly shifting landscape of health care policy. The film will make its television premiere next season on Independent Lens.
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Coming to Independent Lens: The Waiting Room
Preview: Season 14 | 2m 16s
The Waiting Room is a cinema verité portrait of one California city's public safety-net hospital as it struggles to handle patient overload in a swooning economy and a constantly shifting landscape of health care policy. The film will make its television premiere next season on Independent Lens.
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