A New Documentary Follows Doctors Into Gaza
Poh Si Teng couldn’t bear the silence as the Israeli government killed hundreds of Palestinian journalists in Gaza. Some were her former colleagues at Al Jazeera, where Teng had been a documentary commissioner—yet the American news media remained, as she put it, “pin-drop” silent. So Teng emptied her life savings to make American Doctor, which […]
A new documentary, American Doctor, follows three American physicians—Mark Perlmutter, Feroze Sidhwa, and Thaer Ahmad—into Gaza in March 2025. The trio set out to treat patients in the Nasser Hospital, which is half-destroyed and often lacks basic medical supplies and painkillers. They form bonds with Palestinian colleagues, many of whom are working despite the loss of family members to violence.
The documentary raises questions about how to portray mass murder humanely, balancing the depiction of destruction with compassion for the victims. The film was inspired by the silence from American media outlets when Palestinian journalists were targeted, and the filmmakers' commitment to telling the story of these doctors and the suffering they witness in Gaza.
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