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AMERICAN DELIVERY – Review by Lois Alter Mark

April 24, 2025 Lois Alter Mark American Delivery, carolyn jones, childbirth, documentary, health care, midwives, pregnancy

In case you weren’t already outraged about the state of women’s healthcare, along comes American Delivery, a powerhouse documentary that reminds you that the United States is the most dangerous place in the affluent world to give birth. Pregnancy and childbirth kill two women a day in the US, the only country where the maternal mortality rate is rising rather than falling. In fact, it’s 10 times higher here than in Europe, with one third of American counties considered maternity care deserts. Anyone who has the power to make decisions about women’s healthcare should be required to watch American Delivery first. Childbirth is supposed to be a celebration of new life, not a high-stakes game of life and death.

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IN CASE OF EMERGENCY – Review by Carol Cling

October 22, 2020October 24, 2020 Carol Cling 0 Comments carolyn jones, documentaries, emergency room, er, healthcare, in case of emergency, nurses

The new documentary, from director Carolyn Jones focuses on seven emergency nurses in disparate hospitals — from Dallas, Texas, to Dubuque, Iowa, from Lexington, Ky., to Paterson, N.J. “We put Band-Aids on a lot of the big issues we can’t fix,” says one. And, as big issues go, COVID-19 emerges as the one that plunges these ready-for-anything professionals into a different kind of trauma.