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American Doctor Movie Trailer HD - Plot synopsis: Watch the official trailer for AMERICAN DOCTOR, a film by Oscar®-nominated and Emmy® Award-winning filmmaker Poh Si Teng.

American Doctor follows three American physicians - Palestinian, Jewish, and Zoroastrian - united by a single oath to save lives.
After volunteering in besieged hospitals in Gaza, they return home determined to fight for the patients and colleagues they left behind, taking their battle from the front lines of war to the halls of Congress.

In Select Theaters This August!


Presented by Watermelon Pictures, a film production and distribution company rooted in creative resistance and committed to amplifying underrepresented voices through cinema.
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Transcript
00:01I want to take you through what Gaza looks like
00:04when a hospital's totally overwhelmed.
00:06You're getting waves of patients.
00:08Who do you prioritize?
00:09What do you have to treat them?
00:10You got no pain medicine to give the people
00:12whose legs have been blown off.
00:15Three surgeons are working on one little girl
00:17for, what, two and a half hours?
00:18And she's probably going to lose her right leg,
00:20left leg, and her left arm.
00:21And she's starting to wake up.
00:22Let's get her warm.
00:24As a Jewish physician, I knew nothing about Gaza.
00:27Like most Americans, I thought everybody
00:29out here were nothing but terrorists,
00:31because that's what I was told.
00:33I'm not Israeli.
00:34I'm not Palestinian.
00:35I'm not Christian.
00:35I'm not Muslim.
00:36I'm not Jewish.
00:36I don't really have any connection to it.
00:38But as an American,
00:39I just don't want my government involved in crimes.
00:41I'm a Palestinian.
00:42I'm not a spokesperson.
00:44I'm a human being.
00:44I'm a U.S. doctor who wants to see
00:46babies like my babies not being killed anymore.
00:50What surprised me most was how
00:52the carnage was focused on journalists,
00:55healthcare workers, and children.
00:58Fist bump.
01:01Where was that?
01:02That bomb hit the building.
01:03There was a 15-year-old kid ready for discharge
01:06that was incinerated.
01:07And if I had gone down and been changing that kid's dressing,
01:09there would have been three bodies,
01:10and I would have been one of them.
01:11When they hit a hospital,
01:12that's a deep tragedy that people will feel
01:15in the community for the foreseeable future.
01:17We're just asking that hospitals not be targeted.
01:19Why that conversation is derailed in the United States
01:22is beyond me.
01:22We do not have to accept that as Americans.
01:27The United States could stop sending jet fuel,
01:29bombs, all sorts of weapons.
01:30This is a political problem.
01:32We need a political solution.
01:35We're a good pair.
01:36You talk intelligently and I talk emotionally.
01:38It's on us to make sure that their stories are told.
01:43I couldn't go to Palestine.
01:44I got rejected.
01:45And then I come back to the United States
01:47and get detained by the Department of Homeland Security.
01:51This is what my tax dollars did.
01:53What your tax dollars did.
01:55What my neighbor's tax dollars did.
02:00They have the right to know the truth.
02:05Perot's the right one to listen to.
02:06He is about fairness
02:07and he is about doing the right thing.
02:09You know we're not dating, right?
02:10You don't have to talk me up this much.
02:12I just met her five minutes ago.
02:14Yeah.
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