Als we het zouden weten . If We Knew
Verzio FF Submission “If We Knew” is a documentary about pediatricians who work in an intensive-care unit for premature infants at Groningen’s University Hospital. A film essay about the compassion needed to heal the sick and also occasionally needed to hasten the death of a sick child who is suffer...
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| Institution: | Open Society Archives at Central European University |
| Language: | Dutch |
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Lataster Films
2007
Netherlands |
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10891/osa:665d9a99-62ad-4ed6-90b3-246a121f28e9 |
| Summary: | Verzio FF Submission
“If We Knew” is a documentary about pediatricians who work in an intensive-care unit for premature infants at Groningen’s University Hospital. A film essay about the compassion needed to heal the sick and also occasionally needed to hasten the death of a sick child who is suffering unbearably and without hope. Thanks to modern technology doctors can do more and more to cure patients or ease pain where it is unbearable. As a consequence they have to ask themselves if every human being who can be kept alive will lead a life worth living. Should every life be saved at whatever cost? “If We Knew” shows a group of pediatricians cope with tough ethical questions and the impossible decisions they have to make. |
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| Published: | 2007 |