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Emergency! A Critical Situation

Tahani Rached

1999 52 min

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Shot at the Pierre Boucher Hospital in Montreal, this film takes us into the emergency room to see how our healthcare system is holding up. What it reveals is a powerful indictment of management that sees only the bottom line while human lives are at stake.

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Shot at the Pierre Boucher Hospital in Montreal, this film takes us into the emergency room to see how our healthcare system is holding up. What it reveals is a powerful indictment of management that sees only the bottom line while human lives are at stake.

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Credits

• director
  Tahani Rached
  
• script
  Tahani Rached
  
• producer
  Éric Michel
  
• cinematography
  Jacques Leduc
  
• sound
  Marcel Chouinard
  
• editing
  Hélène Girard
  
• sound editing
  Marie-Claude Gagné
  
• re-recording
  Shelley Craig
  
• music
  René Lussier
  
• musician
  Normand Guilbeault
  
  Claude Lavergne
  
• participation
  Nicole Beaupré
  
  Jocelyne Dubois
  
  Francine Charbonneau
  
  Ghyslaine Fortin
  
  Marie-Jeanne Gignac
  
  Line Lafrenière
  
  Johanne Lagacé
  
  Michel Loiselle
  
  Rose Marie Mécarbané
  
  Richard Poissant
  
  Lucie Proteau
  
  Julie Saint-Laurent
  
  Daniel Lefrançois
  
  Sylvie Maguire
  
  Caroline Richard
  
  Claude Rivard
  
  Patsy Sab
  
  Lyne Santerre
  
  Odette Savoie
  
  Dany Vachon
  
  Alain Vadeboncoeur
  
  Sonia Wauthier
  

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