Netflix He always knew how to exploit the despair and hope that came with the pandemic. One of the most emblematic collective epics was that of the New York City service of doctors, nurses and health professionals, and each audiovisual production about them has been a brutal success. In this spirit, the documentary series arrives this Wednesday, March 29. Emergencies: New York.
This eight-episode series will not talk specifically about the pandemic but about the day to day (and night to night) of the Big Apple emergency service: how medical professionals, paramedics, nurses, and the entire health network related, they face emergencies on the front line of work in New York “while juggling the intensity of their work with their personal lives.”
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Emergencies: New York (“Emergency NYC”) is a documentary series created by Adi Barash and Ruthie Shatz, following the spirit and theme of another linked docuseries: Lenox Hill. There, the directors Adi Barash and Ruthie Shatz cast their cameras for months in the hospital of the title, focusing on neurosurgery, emergency and obstetrics-gynecology.
The “ER: New York” docuseries has the same filmmaking team as “Lenox Hill,” about a key hospital in the Big Apple.
With great reflective and testimonial power, without low blows, in Lenox Hill patients and doctors were put at the center of the scene. As a detachment and expansion of that documentary series now comes Emergencies: New Yorkto fascinate, move and alert viewers and spectators who are more empathetic with emergency work in Manhattan.
“ER: New York” on Netflix
Says one of the promotions Emergencies: New York: “Follow the intense and ruthless day-to-day of EMS workers across NYC.” And it expands: “Experience the relentless pulse of the city’s healthcare system through the struggles and triumphs of a helicopter flight nurse, transplant surgeons, paramedics, pediatric traumatologists and neurosurgeons, as they give everything they have to help the who need it most.”
The series shows stories of doctors, paramedics, transplant surgeons, pediatric traumatologists and even helicopter nurses saving lives.
Cast of “Emergencies: New York”
- Dr. David Langer (Chairman of Neurosurgery at Lenox Hill Hospital)
- Dr. John Boockvar (Vice Chairman of Neurosurgery at Lenox Hill Hospital)
- Donald Darby (RN, Cohen Children’s Medical Center Trauma Transport Team)
- Mackenzie LaBonte (SkyHealth Helicopter Service RN)
- Dr. Chethan Sathya (pediatric trauma surgeon at Cohen Children’s Medical Center)
- Dr. José Prince (director of pediatric surgery at Cohen Children’s Medical Center)
- Dr. Elliot Grodstein (transplant surgeon at North Shore University Hospital)
- Dr. Mirtha Macri (ER physician at Lenox Health Greenwich Village)
- Vicky Ulloa (Northwell EMT – Center For Emergency Services)
