"American Doctor" with Poh Si Teng

About this episode

“American Doctor, the searing new documentary by director Poh Si Teng (“St. Louis Superman”) about three American doctors who travel to Gaza to treat Palestinian victims of Israeli airstrikes, is bracing, in-your-face and graphic. In fact, in an early scene, one of the film’s main participants, Dr. Mark Perlmutter, insists that Poh show even the most gruesome images of Palestinian children killed by the bombs: “(American) taxpayers have the right to know the truth.” Poh relents and directs her cameraman to film the photographs. Poh joins Ken on the pod to talk about that extraordinary moment and to shed light on the relationships and events at the center of her extraordinary film. For all…