Summary: America's frenzied debate over government health insurance has eclipsed another, no less challenging, national health care crisis-the plight of people with serious mental illnesses like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. This Fred Friendly Seminar sheds light on barriers to treatment, ethical and legal dilemmas, and fragmented social policies that are creating a nightmare for families, filling...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Some doctors are wary of prescribing medication for ADD or ADHD, especially when treating young patients-but the majority rely on psychotropic drugs. This program challenges the status quo, supported by a staggering amount of testimony and documentation. Incorporating detailed interviews with psychiatrists, neurologists, and education experts-as well as parents and kids who have suffered...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: A respected source of balanced, first-rate journalism, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer raises urgent and challenging questions whenever it covers the healthcare field. This anthology of NewsHour segments confronts ethical dilemmas and complex issues in medicine today. Through in-depth reporting and interviews with doctors, nurses, patients, and other experts, the anthology examines case studies,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Many who followed the Terri Schiavo case struggled to make sense of the flurry of opinions it generated. This NewsHour program, recorded during the last days of Terri Shiavo's life, presents two opposing yet thoroughly reasoned perspectives on the issues. Beth Israel Medical Center neurologist Dr. Russell Portenov explains the medical justification for removing the feeding tube, while Dr....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: While abortion will no doubt polarize our society for the foreseeable future, students can learn a great deal from the circumstances, anxieties, and life goals that surround the decision to end a pregnancy. This program presents a poignant and profoundly honest look at that decision through intimate discussions with young British women. Cheryl imagines other choices she might have made if her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This emotionally charged program filmed in Australia explores the ethics of whether, and in what circumstances, women and men with severe mental or physical disabilities should ever be sterilized. All parties involved desire a better quality of life for people who it is believed are incapable of fully comprehending and then acting on the issues for themselves. But is sterilization, performed in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: On February 22, 1984, Carol Ann Vetter touched her 12-year-old son's hand for the first time. And when David Vetter died, shortly thereafter, he was already world famous: the boy in the plastic bubble. Mythologized as the plucky child who defied the odds, his life story is in fact even more dramatic. This PBS American Experience episode, The Boy in the Bubble, raises some of the most difficult...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006