When AIDS first hit hospitals, nurse Cliff Morrison insisted on "the human touch."
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4.7 • 601 Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2019
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Pushing through fear and bigotry, nurse Cliff Morrison created the first ward for AIDS patients in San Francisco. It focused on "the human touch." It became the model for a nation. And the subject a new film, "5B." Streaming 8/27 at 5BFilm.com
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| 0:00.0 | Searching for a romantic summer getaway. Escape with Rich Girl Summer, the new Audible original |
| 0:05.2 | from Lily Chew. The exquisitely talented Philippa Sue, returning to narrate her fifth |
| 0:10.2 | Lily Chew title. This time, Philippa is joined by her real-life husband, Stephen Pasquale, |
| 0:15.5 | set in Toronto's wealthy cottage country, aka the Hamptons of Canada, rich girl Summer follows the story of Valerie, |
| 0:22.1 | a down-on-her-luck event planner posing as a socialite's long-lost daughter, while piecing |
| 0:26.5 | together the secrets surrounding a mysterious family and falling deeper and deeper in love with the |
| 0:31.7 | impossibly hard to read and infuriatingly handsome family assistant, Nico. Caught between pretending to belong |
| 0:38.2 | and unexpectedly finding where she truly fits in, |
| 0:41.3 | Valerie learns her summer is about to get far more complicated |
| 0:44.0 | than she ever planned. |
| 0:45.8 | She's in over her head and head over heels. |
| 0:48.5 | Listen to Rich Girl Summer, now on Audible. |
| 0:51.2 | Go to audible.com slash rich girl summer. |
| 0:53.2 | Music on Audible. Go to Audible.com slash Rich Girl Summer. |
| 1:06.0 | Hello, friends and neighbors, and welcome back to the Bill Press Pod. Boy, how times have changed. |
| 1:11.6 | People living with HIV-AIDS today, as bad as that is, are not without opportunities. They have access to new miracle drugs. |
| 1:14.6 | For the most part, they've got the loving support of family and friends, and they can count on dedicated first-class medical care. |
| 1:21.6 | But that wasn't always the case. |
| 1:24.6 | Back in the 1980s, when the first victims of HIV AIDS first appeared, many people |
| 1:29.8 | turned against them out of fear. Politicians tried to ban gays from classrooms, swimming pools, |
| 1:36.1 | or restaurants, even some nurses and doctors feared caring for AIDS patients. That's when Cliff Morrison, |
| 1:43.9 | a young nurse at San Francisco General Hospital, |
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