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Suck It Up, Buttercup: Trust and Betrayal - Healthcare in America
Suck it Up, Buttercup explores the crisis of trust in American medicine, exposing greed, profits over people, patient suffering, clinician burnout, and systemic failures. Through deeply personal stories, the film sparks dialogue and inspires change.
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Physicians, nurses, and patients across America are losing faith in the healthcare system meant to protect them, and many are saying so for the first time. Suck It Up, Buttercup: Trust and Betrayal – Healthcare in America explores burnout, moral injury, unsafe staffing, and lost professional autonomy in a system driven by corporate profit.
The title captures the culture they describe. Clinicians learn that exhaustion and moral distress are part of the job, while patients are rushed, denied coverage, and handed bills they cannot pay. Everyone hears the same message: suck it up.
Mark Cuban, Dr. Will and Kristin Flanary (the Glaucomfleckens), Dr. Todd Otten, Dr. Ron Turker, Dr. Don Berwick, Dr. Linda Peeno, and Dr. Wendy Dean are among those who share their stories. The film connects their experiences to the forces behind them and asks what happens when the people entrusted with our health lose faith in the institutions they serve.
It then highlights people and systems proving better care is possible, and invites viewers to reclaim their agency through dialogue, organizing, and a growing impact network. The future of medicine has yet to be written, and all of us have a role in writing it.
To learn more or help keep the film going, visit siubfilm.com.
The title captures the culture they describe. Clinicians learn that exhaustion and moral distress are part of the job, while patients are rushed, denied coverage, and handed bills they cannot pay. Everyone hears the same message: suck it up.
Mark Cuban, Dr. Will and Kristin Flanary (the Glaucomfleckens), Dr. Todd Otten, Dr. Ron Turker, Dr. Don Berwick, Dr. Linda Peeno, and Dr. Wendy Dean are among those who share their stories. The film connects their experiences to the forces behind them and asks what happens when the people entrusted with our health lose faith in the institutions they serve.
It then highlights people and systems proving better care is possible, and invites viewers to reclaim their agency through dialogue, organizing, and a growing impact network. The future of medicine has yet to be written, and all of us have a role in writing it.
To learn more or help keep the film going, visit siubfilm.com.
Title
Suck It Up, Buttercup: Trust and Betrayal - Healthcare in America
Release
2026
Runtime
87 minutes (1 hour 27 minutes)
Rating
Not Rated
Genre
Documentary
Director
Origin
United States
Language
English
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