Citizens for Peace & Justice will present a free showing of Our Ailing Health Care System, a documentary film on a large screen TV at 7 pm this Thursday, July 2nd, in Lidgate Hall, Medford Congregation United Church of Christ. (Posted 06/29/09)
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Citizens for Peace & Justice will present a free showing of Our Ailing Health Care System, a documentary film on a large screen TV at 7 pm this Thursday, July 2nd, in Lidgate Hall, Medford Congregation United Church of Christ. The public is invited.
CPJ will have a short business meeting beginning at 6:30 pm about the co-sponsoring the Sept. 30th appearance in the Rogue Valley of independent Arab-American journalist Dahr Jamail, who has covered the Iraq War since the beginning.
Our Ailing Health Care System is produced & directed by Paul Hochfield, a Corvallis physician and emergency room doctor. He provides the following information at the film website: http://www.ourailinghealthcare.com/
About the Film
Our Health Care System is beyond broken or sick. It's dumb. We spend more than twice as much per capita than most developed countries, the taxpayer is already paying for 60% of the total bill, and, by any measure of public health, our results are poor. Driven by technology and fear of liability, physicians order tests and treatments without regard for cost. Patients and families embrace unreasonable expectations. Drug companies successfully market expensive drugs that, at best, are marginally more effective than less expensive, older ones. As our primary care providers continue to disappear, increasing fragmentation of care, costs will rise and outcomes will worsen. Most significantly, the insurance industry adds nothing to "health" and greatly to total cost, which is increasingly a burden to our economy and threat to the financial solvency of our government. What's more, our State government are having to divert money to health care from education, infrastructure and protecting the environment, all of which may have more impact on the health of our society than access to a doctor.
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About Paul Hochfield
After receiving a B. S. and M. S. degree in Electrical Engineering from MIT, my interest turned away from neurophysiology research and I enrolled in UCSD School of Medicine. Upon graduation, I embarked on a Family Practice Residency, which I left prematurely for a variety of reasons. In 1979, I moved to Corvallis Oregon, where I found an Emergency Room position at Good Samaritan Hospital, where I remain to this day. I am board certified in Emergency Medicine. Along this path, I have been Physician Director of the Emergency Department and President of Marys Peak Emergency Physicians. Currently, I am Chairman of the hospitals Peer Review Committee and Physician Advisor to the Corvallis Fire Department Ambulance Service.
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