Tagged: Highland Hospital

On today's Your Call, we’ll speak with Peter Nicks, maker of the new film, “The Waiting Room,” about a day in the life Oakland’s Highland Hospital.  Mitt Romney has said the ER will provide health care for those without insurance.  But what’s the reality of the public ER?  If you’ve spent time at Highland or any other public hospital, what was your experience?  Join us at 10am Pacific or post a comment here. It’s Your Call with Rose Aguilar, and you.

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Our new community storytelling project, Hear Here is popping up in libraries, food banks, and schools to capture these stories and snapshots of life in Oakland and San Francisco. A few months ago, Hear Here set up shop in the Golden Gate branch of the Oakland Public library to talk to local residents about work. They heard this story from Regina Tolbert.

Listen to the full story above. This story originally aired on July 24, 2012.