Common Sense Media Review
By Melissa Camacho
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based on child development research. How do we rate?
Doc about frontline medical pros has mature themes, cursing.
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Emergency NYC
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What's the Story?
From the creators of Lenox Hill comes EMERGENCY NYC, a docuseries about frontline professionals working at some of the New York-area hospitals that are part of the Northwell Health system. Each episode follows paramedics and EMTs like Kristina McCoy and Vicky Ulloa, nurses like Mackenzie Labonte, and doctors like Dr. John Boockvar as they respond to and treat people with medical emergencies. From transporting patients and organs by helicopter, to performing complicated surgeries in hope of saving (or at least prolonging) people's lives, it shows how these medical professionals work as a team to care for patients from the moment they're taken to the hospital to the end of whatever treatments they require. It also offers a brief look at how these folks try to balance their personal lives with their professional responsibilities.
Is It Any Good?
Each installment of the surprisingly slow-moving series follows NYC-area hospital staff as they attend to a diverse group of patients facing medical emergencies, life-threatening illnesses, and difficult surgeries. Emergency NYC reveals the hard work that goes into treating a constant influx of patients resulting from people's unwillingness or inability to receive necessary medical treatments during the COVID pandemic, and due to an increase in violence (especially gun violence). It shows how, during the process, medical professionals are often required to make quick and difficult decisions, and how each member of the medical staff requires the assistance of others to provide good care. The positive interaction of the staff with their patients, even under the most stressful of circumstances, is also constructive. Granted, some of the medical staff talk up their training and their enthusiasm for the job a bit too much, and little is said about the challenges that their patients (and their families) will most likely face moving forward, including finding a way to pay off the medical bills incurred by this good care. Nonetheless, Emergency NYC underscores the hard work and commitment of some of New York's frontline medical professionals.
Talk to Your Kids About ...
Families can talk about the role each member of a hospital medical staff plays in a patient's medical care. What kind of training does each staff person have to have in order to treat patients effectively?
What are audiences supposed to take away from Emergency NYC? What's more interesting, the doctor's personal stories, or the stories of the patients they're treating?
TV Details
- Premiere date : March 29, 2023
- Cast : John Boockvar
- Network : Netflix
- Genre : Reality TV
- Character Strengths : Communication , Compassion , Empathy , Perseverance , Self-control , Teamwork
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- Last updated : April 6, 2023
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