A man who lost his family's health insurance along with his job hovers with concern over his young daughter, who has a high fever. A young man with a testicular tumor arrives on the day he was ...

A rock-solid verite docu, Peter Nicks' "The Waiting Room" spends hard time in the emergency room at Highland Hospital in Oakland, Calif., where patients often have to wait all day to be seen, then ...

“The Waiting Room” casts a site-specific spotlight on the services of Oakland’s Highland Hospital while also illustrating the predicaments of the nation’s uninsured. Small but satisfying, this ...

The new documentary The Waiting Room chronicles a day in the emergency room at Highland Hospital in Oakland, California. The film has no narration or expert interviews, but instead the camera shows ...

Dr. Douglas White has a problem. Behind him is an overcrowded emergency room at Highland Hospital in Oakland, Calif., and in front of him is a middle-aged homeless man he knows well – a “frequent ...

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Highland Hospital in Oakland has what's supposed to be an emergency room, and that's where the documentary The Waiting Room is set. But as it turns out, at a big public hospital in Oakland, an ER only ...

Peter Nicks’ acclaimed film The Waiting Room certainly could not be more timely. With health care on the minds of all Americans these days, both citizens and politicians, with discussions happening ...

All of these clips come courtesy of Waiting Room filmmaker Peter Nicks and his “Storytelling Project,” which is found on the official site for the film. Consider these mini-features “bonus material” ...

There are no pie charts, no Michael Moore antics, no “2016: Obama’s America” posturing. Instead, the involving and topical documentary “The Waiting Room” focuses on the bitter-pill truths in the ...