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Code Black (the 2014 Documentary) - Official Trailer
Code Black - The Documentary

This was the trailer for the 2014 award-winning documentary that was the inspiration for the television drama series "Code Black." In 2013, filmmaker and emergency physician Dr. Ryan McGarry, with a documentary film crew, was given unprecedented access to the Emergency Room at USC-Los Angeles County Medical Center, one of the busiest emergency departments in the U.S. The film captured a team of young physicians struggling through life and death situations in a complex and overburdened system. Their training ground is the legendary trauma bay that was also the birthplace of emergency medicine, where more people have died and been saved than arguably in any other square-footage in the nation. CODE BLACK is a tense and unforgettable doctor's-eye view into the heart of America’s healthcare crisis.