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Commentary On The Film 'Escape Fire'

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The documentary film "Escape fire" is a simple truth that sets out issues about the cracked US healthcare system. The authors used the firefight scene as a metaphor to emphasize and make more visible and reachable the reality about US healthcare system and make people to that we have to fight against the defects of US healthcare system. We have to be aware and find even unthinkable solutions to save our healthcare system. To me the hospitals, doctors offices and other medical institutions should be the only place where saving human lives is considers number one priority not the moeny that dominates and rules the whole world. It is really scary to realize and accept that deaths due to medical errors in the list are located in the third place,
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