Triage: Dr. James Orbinski's Humanitarian Dilemma will be shown at RCCongress 2010, which takes place April 7-10. The screening and an appearance by James Orbinski are being sponsored by the World Association for Christian Communication (WACC).

The documentary film Triage was inspired by Orbinski's 2008 book, An Imperfect Offering, which won the Writer's Trust of Canada's Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing, and in which he seeks to make sense of his experiences.

Orbinski is the former international president of Médecins Sans Frontières and accepted the 1999 Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the organization. A full article about him appears in the 4/2009 issue of WACC's international journal Media Development.

Orbinski says: "Stories. We all have stories. Nature does not tell stories, we do. We find ourselves in them, make ourselves in them, choose ourselves in them. If we are the stories we tell ourselves, we had better choose them well. This book is a series of stories. I ask again and again, 'How am I to be, how are we to be in relation to the suffering of others?' It is a question that has preoccupied me for much of my life."

Triage follows Orbinski to Somalia, Rwanda and Congo and captures the conscience-haunting choices doctors must make as they race against time with limited resources.

See RCC2010's web site for complete programming information and book now!

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