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Baghdad ER - An HBO Documentary Film
 
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Baghdad ER - An HBO Documentary Film (2006)

Starring: Merritt Pember, David Snyder (VI) Director: Jon Alpert, Matthew O'Neill (III) Rating: NR (Not Rated) Format: DVD
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HBO'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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Produced and directed by 11-time Emmy? Award-winner Jon Alpert, this 64-minute verite documentary takes an unforgettable look inside the 86th Combat Support Hospital (CSH), the U.S. Army?s premier medical facility in Iraq and former site of one of Saddam Hussein?s elite medical facilities. Shot over two months in the summer of 2005, the film puts a human face on the war?s cold casualty statistics, as doctors and nurses fight to save the lives of wounded soldiers who are Medevaced (helicoptered) in a numbingly routine basis.

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37 of 38 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Well done by someone who's been there, June 25, 2006
I am a physician in the Army and have worked in this facility during OIF. This film is graphic but nowhere near as graphic as it could be. It is quite uplifting and moving. It is also very tastefully done and not in the least exploitative considering the subject matter. It made me very proud of the job we do. It should be seen by everyone.
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22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars This is what the media will not show, August 17, 2006
Combat medicine is not for the squeamish. It's a group of normal medical personnel doing extraordinary things in the worse conditions. This film,. while very short on time, showcases the reality of war. While the media mentions how many were killed in an attack, they fail to bring home the reality that many more are wounded in devastating ways. If more people would understand what combat wounds look like, I think there would be less enthusiasm for war.

The film is a "fly on the wall" look at a combat care facility in Baghdad. The voices in the movie are not actors.. there is no narration. You get to watch and listen to what's happening and engross yourself as if you were truly there. I spent two years in the military training ordinary medical personnel to work in these facilities and I can assure you that this film is about as graphic and in-your-face as you will want to see. As the previous reviewer stated, it could have shown a lot worse, but it's not necessary. There is enough here to make a lasting impression.

While the film focuses mainly on the ER (as the title suggests), it would have been nice to show a bit more of the other personnel who make this system work. The field medics, the ancillary services, the public health and a whole host of other people who donate a portion of their lives, and a larger portion of their heart to saving lives for their country. But with the 1 hour time limit, the producers managed to give you a quick glimpse into a scene very few have seen, and even fewer will ever want to. I highly recommend everyone watch it, and if it tugs at your heart, then the point of the film has been made.
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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars My E.R., January 20, 2007
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.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Bagdad ER
I was able to order and receive this DVD very quickly from the sender with no problems or delays. The DVD arrived in perfect condition still in its original package.
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This was hard to watch . I needed to see this , but it hurt to see Americans die like this and the people who tried to save them. It hurt . Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars Baghdad ER
Excellent service. Received the DVD very quickly. I do think the postage is way too expensive though.
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