This movie is awesome, I want my friends and family to watch it because I feel like it is hard to describe the situations that you are a part of when working in the ED. This documentary did an outstanding job of accurately portraying the wide variety of problems you have to address. I don't know why all the comments from other nurses on here are bashing the docs. My experience with ED docs is that they are awesome. Docs in the ED trust the nurses judgement and listen to their suggestions, not always to the nurses get their way, but upstairs the nurses barely ever get their way. Basically what I'm saying is that the ED is awesome, and this documentary does a great job of showing what it is actually like when you are in there at 2300 on a Saturday night.

As a small town ER nurse I see what I thought was chaos but I was wrong. Amazing skill and patience in that environment. Everyone needs to see this movie!

After the new show Code Black on NBC I fell upon this documentary that shows the real deal of what happens at County Hospital. I was in shock to find out that they buoy a new one and there's no more C-Block. This document shows you what goes on at this ER and it's insane. I love the show and I loved the documentary.

As someone not in the medical field, I can say this was a very enlightening, informative, and to be honest, saddening film. It's great to experience the medical field in a non-dramatic portrayal. Seeing the current state of the health care industry from the front lines is more important than any debate. Complexity seems to kill everything. Because we feel the need to fix things we create more regulation. Well, most of the time, adding rules isn't the answer.

Maybe these liberal doctors can give up part of their salaries to pay for more nurses.

Perhaps it’s their young idealistic ages but having worked as an ER physician for nearly 20 years I was left wondering how their opinions would change over the years to come. The contradictions in this film are as brazen as some of the more gruesome trauma scenes. Our young physicians idealize wanting to help anyone, anytime, without concern for ability to pay or concern for where the money would come from. It’s easy to get tunnel vision in a “county” tertiary care system, serving all-comers and demonizing the business side of medicine. But in the real world profit is what pushes the boundaries of medical technology and keeps America’s health care system superior. Though never specified, it was easy to ascertain that most of these docs would be supportive of a single-payer system, or at least more government involvement to help the uninsured. And yet, they spent a great deal of their time lamenting the bureaucracy, paperwork, regulations and government imposed constraints of modern medicine and wishing for the old days at the original county hospital. Sorry guys, you can’t have it both ways.

What a disappointment. Being an experienced ER and public health RN, I love medical documentaries, especially those that deal with the enormous crisis of lack of healthcare for underserved. But as an RN, working in many fields of nursing, here and abroad, it is the nurses that do a huge amount of the work. Not only where the ER nurses (who do a bulk load of the work) almost completely looked over, but these young doctors have the arrogance to say nurse-to-patient ratio is unnecessary. If you are worried so much about the patient, then you would know that, in part, the nurse-to-patient ratio is for patient safety. And putting a few chairs in the hallway which could cause a jam up with stretchers etc, is not a brilliant idea. These MDs seem more concerned with their hair gel then anything else!

Being a physician, I often steer clear of dramas and documentaries such as this. Not because I have experienced similar situations as these young LA MD's, but because the over-dramatization of it all and more often than not, the incorporation of gratuitous romance in the medical workplace. My curiosity won out, as I have read about this specific hospital in the past. No need to expand on the details. Watch it. So very informative. Job well done, Doctor. You incorporated both the good and the bad aspects of American medicine in a carefully woven documentary which proved to be satisfyingly unbiased. We needed that!

An excellent eye opening look at emergency medicine in a large metropolitan hospital, LA County. This film left me with a new respect and empathy for the dedicated staff of any emergency dept.