Code Black: Putting a face on America’s access problem

A new documentary takes viewers inside America’s busiest ER at Los Angeles County Hospital, where patients are known to wait 12, sometimes 18, hours or more to receive treatment, because they have nowhere else to go.

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Code Black, which received the Best Documentary award at the LA Film Festival, was directed by Ryan McGarry, MD. He balanced filmmaking with his ER residency, filming the stories of the hundreds of patients who came through the ER each day, and the physicians and nurses who treat them.

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