Living in Emergency (2008)

Stories of Doctors Without Borders
This is an important, serious, inspirational documentary about Doctors Without Borders (Medicin Sans Frontiere).
From NetFlix: "American surgeon Tom Krueger and Australian doctor Davinder Gill -- two newcomers to the human rights organization Doctors Without Borders -- learn the difficult ropes of providing medical care under harrowing conditions. Joined by two veteran doctors, these medical heroes work, laugh, cry and argue their way through decimated urban centers, remote bush outposts and other extreme locations in this inspiring documentary (Set in Sierra Leone and Congo). 93 minutes

Triage: Dr. James Orbinski's Humanitarian Dilemma (2007)

Leaving his young family behind in Toronto, Canada - where he's a university professor and doctor - Orbinski returns to Africa, revisiting the past and engaging with the present. He hopes that here, in the place where he witnessed humanity literally torn apart, he can rediscover the true heart of humanitarianism.

In Triage: Dr. James Orbinski's Humanitarian Dilemma, Patrick Reed's feature-length documentary, Orbinski travels to war-torn Somalia, the first place he was posted with MSF in 1992; then to Rwanda, where he was MSF Head of Mission during the 1994 genocide. Finally he goes to Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, where it seems humanitarian dreams go to die.

Filmed in an intense vérité style, Triage presents a unique view of the world through the penetrating eyes of Orbinski. He refuses to turn away when confronting troubling memories or realizing disturbing truths and, in the most unlikely of places, he finds where both tragedy and nobility.

National Flim Board of Canada 2008 -- 88 minutes

This is an extraordinary documentary. Don't miss it. Excellent for premeds and young doctors.