It's hard to be sympathetic to a good number of Weisberg's subjects for this documentary.
The first gentleman and his wife are both morbidly obese--and I imagine that impacts his liver disease. Certainly it make cirrhosis worse.
The second woman didn't have insurance because she had pulmonary disease and couldn't take the stairs at the apartment complex she managed. So she quit. It's also clear that both she and her husband smoked for years. So she smoked, got pulmonary disease, quit her job because she could climb stairs, and then lost her insurance.
It is only the third man with the back problems that evokes a real sympathetic response to me because all of his problems are beyond his control. Nothing he did invited back problems.
That is the problem with this documentary; there are thousands of people who have medical horror stories that are not of their own making--directly or indirectly. A string of affective stories would make the sort of point the Weisberg seems to try to make.
The first gentleman and his wife are both morbidly obese--and I imagine that impacts his liver disease. Certainly it make cirrhosis worse.
The second woman didn't have insurance because she had pulmonary disease and couldn't take the stairs at the apartment complex she managed. So she quit. It's also clear that both she and her husband smoked for years. So she smoked, got pulmonary disease, quit her job because she could climb stairs, and then lost her insurance.
It is only the third man with the back problems that evokes a real sympathetic response to me because all of his problems are beyond his control. Nothing he did invited back problems.
That is the problem with this documentary; there are thousands of people who have medical horror stories that are not of their own making--directly or indirectly. A string of affective stories would make the sort of point the Weisberg seems to try to make.
