'American Doctor' Shows Brutality of Conflict in Gaza

‘American Doctor’ shows brutality of conflict in Gaza

Director Poh Si Teng makes no attempt to explain the rights or wrongs of the conflict, focusing instead on the work in Gaza of three American doctors from different backgrounds.

'American Doctor' shows brutality of conflict in Gaza

The suffering Perlmutter and his colleagues have seen in Gaza hospitals since Israel launched its retaliation for the October 2023 Hamas attack forms the core of "American Doctor," a documentary that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and arrives in select US theaters this Friday. In her documentary debut, director Poh Si Teng makes no attempt to explain the rights or wrongs of the conflict itself, focusing instead on the work in Gaza of th…

What American Doctor Saw in Gaza's Hospitals

American Doctor is a kind of cinematic Hippocratic oath. Its subjects are three US physicians who, as genocide rages, volunteer to go above and beyond the call of duty to treat Gaza’s beleaguered residents. Having seen the carnage with their own eyes, the trio then set out to inform a callous Congress and a supplicant press about what is really happening inside the enclave’s hospitals — and to the medical workers who staff them.The three could h…