video 1.0 Vimeo http://vimeo.com/ Tony Macasaet http://vimeo.com/user422934 0 <object width="428" height="240"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=889903&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=1&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1" /><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=889903&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=1&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="428" height="240"></embed></object> 428 240 192 I am an ER doctor and amateur filmmaker.... A Short Film of life at Mt. Sinai, a level 1 trauma center, where I have worked and taught for eleven years... a home I am poised to leave... a family I am about to embrace... as I depart. It has been like a medical mission, to the far reaches of Chicago's wild West-side... the murder capital of this fulgent American city. Our patients are often the poorest the city coldly holds... some without even a home, a family, some.... without even their sanity. It is an environment where the absurd is expected... and the norm is a surprise. We can be filled with rage, sometimes even hate, malice, selfishness.... But the wonderment, when compassion, hope and even love bleed through the absurdity... ::: In my waining days at a medieval battlefield hospital overrun a little more every day miles from the Kings and Ladies we suffer the butchery and the anguish of tears that no but us and the dead hears macaSTAT.com http://images.vimeo.com/52/23/31/52233146/52233146_200x150.jpg 200 150 889903