"Love Takes Wing" is another CAMIE® winning film, an original, brought to us by The Hallmark Channel.
This inspiring story tells about a woman doctor who arrived in a small fronteir town to set up her medical practice in the midst of a cholera epidemic. Although it's a tale of fiction by the master storyteller, Janette Oke, her well-done research let's us see the struggles these folks had with water they didn't know was contaminated. Few had any understanding that cholera was caused by bacteria, let alone the importance of boiling water or even washing dishes or hands. But even those who knew about these things didn't know what to do about the massive fluid loss that occurs in patients with cholera.
Lou Diamond Phillips does an excellent job of directing this film starring Sarah Jones as Dr. Belinda Simpson who studies the radically new idea of replacing fluids intravenously--and then does so. Anyone who has watched infants so dehydrated they've stopped breathing, and then come to life by pushing IV fluids can appreciate the early efforts of pioneer docs like in this story. But there's also some romance, along with reasons in increase one's faith in God and prayer which is a real treat. This is a particularly outstanding story, with excellent directing and acting.
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