Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired

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Programs in this series

• (Mis)Treating Prisoners
  Prisoners receive inferior health care, because they, for the most part, come from oppressed communities and are thus seen as expendable.
• A Shortness of Breath
  This film mixes documentary and narrative form to describe attitudes towards death and dying.
• Breathless
  In 1992, New York City announced its plan to build seven garbage incinerators in low income neighborhoods to solve the city's waste problem.
• Casa Primavera
  This documentary highlights the struggle of a successful community-based mental health program, Casa Primavera, for Latinos in Boston, Mass.
• Dishwarmer
  Deep Dish TV Network promos and Public Service Announcements from around the country on health care.
• Doing What It Takes
  This program focuses on alternative health care in various Black communities.
• Glass Jaw and Unfinished Symphony
  Glass Jaw chronicles the filmmakers recovery from a pistol whipping and his ensuing brain surgery. The Unfinished Symphony is an experimental autobiographical documentary of a spinal fusion operation.
• He Wo Un Poh
  Beverly Singer, a member of the Santa Clara Tewa Pueblo, introduces us to the thoughts, experiences and successes of seven Native Americans on the road to recovery from alcohol abuse.
• Healers
  This program explores varied approaches to the prevention and treatment of disease based upon simultaneously treating the mind, body and spirit.
• High Tech Baby Making
  This program examines how different reproductive issues are dealt with in both industrialized and developing countries.
• Lesbian Health Heroes
  This program features five lesbians sharing their experiences, memories and personal histories concerning lesbian health care in San Diego, Calif.
• Lesbian Health News
  Personal vignettes on health care are featured in this short video from a lesbian perspective. Topics include Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, AIDS and breast cancer.
• National Health Emergency: An Activist Survey
  A trenchant analysis of health care reform in the United States. Though made in 1994, it remains, sadly, accurate.
• Toxic Wars
  This program documents environmental health movements around the country, showing how three different communities of color have fought for environmental justice.
• Who's In Control
  Does the responsibility for equal reproductive care begin with us? Ethical, moral and legal issues raised by three leading women of color in Milwaukee's health care professions.
• Women of Substance and Crack Clouds Over Hells Kitchen
  "Woman of Substance" looks beyond the statistics to reveal the human and social problems encountered by pregnant and parenting addicts seeking treatment.In "Crack Clouds Over Hell's Kitchen" by Educational Video Center students visit a park in New York City's infamous "Hell's Kitchen" neighborhood.