Baghdad ER - An HBO Documentary Film
by John Alpert
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Director: John AlpertBrand: HBO Home Video
Producer: John Alpert
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Published), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; Spanish (Published), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 64 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-08-29
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Studio: HBO Home Video
Movie Reviews of Baghdad ER - An HBO Documentary Film
Movie Review: My E.R.
Summary: 5 Stars
My name is unimportant, and the name of my medics are unimportant too. Me and the NCOIC of the E.R. featured in this documentary are responsible for the actions taken by medics in this film. People talk a lot about doctors and nurses. In the military, medics are the ones who make things happen. There are no nurses or doctors patrolling downtown Baghdad with an infantry platoon. Those medics out there reacted and took care of their fellow soldiers. Seeing that they needed additional medical care they sent them to us. The 86th CSH.
I'm not the political type and I don't care what people say out there. I just do my job and I think I do it well. I was tasked to train my medics in traumatic emergency medicine, ensure that they knew their job and that the E.R. ran smoothly. We worked around the clock, two 12 hours shifts, no days off, trying to save every Soldier's life. Not only our Soldiers but anybody injured. I called my guys the silent and unseen angels. Why? A lot of the Soldiers who came through our doors never saw us or knew who we were. Simply because we treated them, then they went to the O.R. and then they were shipped to Germany. Baghdad E.R. shows what we did for our Soldiers.
I'm proud of the soldiers I worked with and the hard work and sacrifices they went through during that year long deployment in Iraq. Not to brag about ourselves but we had the best trauma team worlwide. After our deployment ended we learned that the survivability was close to 95%. Unfortunately now I work in a clinic and I'm not allowed to go back to Iraq where I know I can be more efficient and would be able to take care of our wounded.
But this film is the best HBO can portray of what we did.
I dedicate this film to all those who we treated and their families. God Bless.
Summary of Baghdad ER - An HBO Documentary Film
BAGHDAD ER - DVD MovieHBO's unflinching Baghdad ER makes programs like Grey's Anatomy and House look like kiddie cartoons. Directed by Jon Alpert and Matthew O'Neill, the fly-on-the wall documentary tracks the days and nights of the 86th Combat Support Hospital. Located in Baghdad's Green Zone, the CSH is the Army?s premier medical facility in Iraq. It's a busy place. Most of the injuries--almost 18,000 from 2003-2005--are due to IEDs (improvised explosive devices). Patients with minor problems are patched up and sent on their way. More severe cases are medevaced to Germany or the States. Still others won't make it. Then there are those who lose limbs. It isn't an uncommon occurrence, and the film features discomfiting moments concerning those individuals (the sequences may be brief, but they're undeniably disturbing). But all is not trauma and tears. Alpert and O'Neill also catch the hard-working staff during rare moments of levity: playing the saxophone, smoking cigars, and telling bad jokes. As Captain Merritt Pember accedes, "There's a lot of stuff we laugh about and probably shouldn't--it helps keep us sane." According to the introductory text, "Ninety percent of American soldiers wounded in Iraq survive. This is the highest rate of war survivors in US History." Baghdad ER brings that impressive statistic to indelible life. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
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