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Daisy Lamothe
Everything’s Fine









Abstract:  Seydou Konaté is a doctor in Nongon, a small village in Southern Mali, without electricity or telephones, isolated by two rivers with no bridges,  and a 10-hour drive on a dirt road from the capital of Bamako. Working out of the Community Health Care Center, with limited staff and technical  facilities, he is the only doctor for more than 40,000 inhabitants.  Everything’s Fine portrays Konaté's everyday routine, meeting with patients in his office, treating a variety of injuries and ailments in the  clinic, lecturing people on the use of condoms to prevent AIDS, warning against the dangers of using water from contaminated wells, insisting  on regular vaccinations for young children, dealing with complications of pregnancy, and even comparing professional notes with a traditional  healer who comes in for a diagnosis.  The 37-year-old doctor, who declares that he is proud to be practicing the "noble art of medicine," works at a fixed salary and lives most of  the year apart from his family in Bamako. He is an affable personality with an engaging sense of humor who relates easily to his patients, but  he will also angrily get in someone's face when they persist in perpetuating unsanitary conditions that endanger the lives of the entire  community.  In addition to demonstrating his own quiet commitment to delivering quality health care for little money, Konaté offers his views on the financial  support of development programs, which he feels are well meaning but without working knowledge of the difficult field realities.  Through its engaging portrait of this self-styled "bush doctor" Everything’s Fine offers revealing insights into the challenges of health care  in Africa today.

Production Date:
10/30/2006

Distributor:
First Run/Icarus Films
32 Court Street, 21st Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11201

Phone:
718-488-8900

Fax:
718-488-8642

Email / Website:
adella@frif.com

http://www.frif.com/new2006/ever.html

Running Time:
78

Film Credits:
Director and Cinematographer: Daisy Lamothe; Sound: Denis Jourdin; Editing: Josie Miljevic

Medium:
DVD

Filmmaker/anthropologist:  Daisy Lamothe

Keywords:  Cultural Anthropology, Africa, Bioethics


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