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Screen/Society--Rights! Camera! Action! Film Series--"Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare" & panel discussion

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Thursday, March 19, 2015
7:00 pm - 8:56 pm
Panel Discussion to follow w/ Dr. Dennis Clements (Pediatrics/Community & Family Medicine/Global Health), Katie Galbraith (President, Durham Regional Hospital), and Dr. Andrew Hannapel (Family Medicine, UNC)
Rights! Camera! Action!

Film Screening: "Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare" (Susan Froemke & Matthew Heineman, 2012, 95 min, USA, in English, Color, DVD)/ "Escape Fire" tackles one of the most pressing issues of our time: what can be done to save our broken medical system? Award-winning filmmakers Matthew Heineman and Susan Froemke follow dramatic human stories as well as leaders fighting to transform healthcare at the highest levels of medicine, industry, government, and even the US military. The film examines the powerful forces trying to maintain the status quo in an industry designed for quick fixes rather than prevention, for profit-driven care rather than patient-driven care. After decades of resistance, a movement to bring innovative high-touch, low-cost methods of prevention and healing into our high-tech, costly system is finally gaining ground. "Escape Fire" is about finding a way out. It's about saving the health of a nation. / Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xl_TD7yppBM

Contact: Hank Okazaki