Abstract
Dr Grace Dammann had devoted decades of her life to the compassionate care of AIDS patients in San Francisco, California, when, on May 21, 2008, a head-on vehicle collision on the Golden Gate Bridge nearly took her life. When she not only survived but came out of a coma with all of her mental faculties intact, Grace, her family, and her doctors agreed it was nothing short of a miracle. Her path to healing, however, had only just begun and would prove far more complex, challenging, and enlightening than any of them expected. This is the journey chronicled in States of Grace, the 2014 documentary written and directed by Helen Cohen and Mark Lipman that follows Grace and her family after she returns home from a year-long hospital stay and struggles to realign her life with her new physical reality. Grace had spent her entire life as a dedicated caregiver, not only for her patients but as the mother of a special-needs child as well. The traumatic accident transformed her from caregiver to care-receiver, a shi...
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