Search Results for “emergency medicine”

You’re a doctor 11 hours into your shift, and you’ve just walked into a waiting area packed with patients. There’s an elderly man complaining of mild chest pain, a teenage girl whose arms are swollen with bee stings, and an ambulance that is bringing in two unresponsive kids from a car crash. What do you do next? Welcome to a typical day on the job for doctors in emergency departments: the most intense department in any hospital, and home to the kind of split-second decision making, high-stress troubleshooting, and rapid medical detective work that can make the difference between a patient’s life and death.

An eccentric, triple board-certified virtuoso surgeon leaves a top job in Seoul and ends up at a provincial hospital, where he mentors young doctors.

This gripping docuseries follows New York City's frontline medical professionals as they balance the intensity of their work with their personal lives.

An unprecedented behind-the-scenes access to two of Canada’s busiest hospital emergency rooms.

A behind-the-scenes look inside the world of emergency medicine in the Lone Star State, where Dr. Ruby Rose and other skilled physicians resolve Texas-sized medical emergencies. The freestanding ER physicians deal with painful, unusual DNA, sometimes even gruesome emergency cases including a monster bug stuck in a patient's ear and a huge piece of concrete trapped in a patient's leg.

In this groundbreaking science series, Dr. Alain Vadeboncoeur takes us through the processes some of the most deadly threats use to attack the human body, as well as the strategies that doctors and other specialists take in trying to turn the tide and save lives.