Code Black (2013)

Directed by

Ryan McGarry

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 21m

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 22 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary follows young doctors working in a crowded Los Angeles emergency room. They struggle to provide good care despite a strained healthcare system.

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What happens

Code Black is a documentary directed by Ryan McGarry in 2013 that follows the lives of young physicians in the Los Angeles General Medical Center Emergency department. These young residents stand up for medicine in a broken healthcare system. This film enters one of America's busiest emergency rooms where new challenges arise as the young residents try to live up to the previous doctors in the legendary C-booth. The film was adapted by Michael Seitzman into the CBS medical drama Code Black (2015–2018). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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