Anna Marie de la Fuente “(Im)Patient” (“El Pa(de)ciente”), the Sanfic Work in Progress entry by Chile’s Constanza Fernandez, deals with a universal hot button issue, health care.The drama follows an elderly but fit doctor who is suddenly hospitalized with the little-understood Guillain-Barré syndrome, a rare disorder whereby a body’s immune system attacks the nerves.
He begins to record his experience in the hospital where his position as an expert in the field of bioethics gets him some preferential treatment but does not spare him entirely from the indignities that most patients undergo in a hospital and inexpert treatment from harried nurses in a far from perfect health care system.As in the title, this doctor grows ever more impatient.
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