Living in Emergency is the story of four volunteer doctors working for the Doctors Without Borders program (Medecins Sans Frontieres), a relief organization out of Paris, France, whose mission is to provide medical care in war-ravaged countries. This film isn’t for the faint of heart, as filmmaker Mark Hopkins doesn’t hold back on showing you graphic depictions of real-life medical procedures and traumas from brutal war zones. From full-on leg amputation to the unpleasantness of untreated chronic illness, these doctors face things that they would never see in the West. Hopkins follows them -- newbies and veterans alike -- in war-damaged locations like Liberia ...
Released:
2008
Rated:
n/a
Length:
93 mins