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...Baghdad ER" provides rare footage of medevac crews getting their assignments at the map-filled Tactical Operations Command and inside a Black Hawk transporting a patient. I would have liked to see more of the crucial role played by those air rescue squads. Likewise, the big medical decisions - whether to amputate a limb or move a brain-damaged victim - get short shrift. HBO missed potentially dramatic scenes of those debates. A long, jazzy saxophone solo by a soldier reflects the melancholy mood of patients. But, despite a few emotional scenes, the film failed to plumb the mindset of casualties...
...doctor out for a walk in the Green Zone, the protected area where the U.S. government and military is headquartered and the hospital lies. "The thing I miss most is to go more than a half a mile in either direction," he said. "That's our world in Baghdad." After more than three years of war, the statement could be taken many ways...
With its stark, graphic images of injured soldiers and their colleagues who tend to them, the HBO documentary "Baghdad ER" is in many ways a tribute to the brave, tireless doctors at the United States Army's 86th Combat Support Hospital in Iraq. But not all Iraq combat surgeons think the film - which includes images of a soldier being carried from a helicopter, his face burned beyond recognition - is such a good idea. Last week Dr. Joseph Brennan, who is an Air Force Colonel, received an email directed to all Armed Forces medical personnel warning of the potential traumatic effects...
...Baghdad ER's" film makers Jon Alpert and Matthew O'Neill spent two months in Baghdad's Green Zone where the 86th CSH was located. Through the film, the camera pans from moments of levity to moments of sorrow; from a surgeon cracking a joke while stitching entrails together in the operating room to a wounded soldier confiding in his friend that he can't close his eyes without seeing the missing face of their Humvee driver killed in an explosion earlier that...
...Sunnis. Jabr is himself connected to the Badr Brigades, a Shi'ite militia that was created and funded by Iran. Although he denied that death squads were at large in the police force, he failed to halt the killings, which currently run at around 1,000 a month in Baghdad alone...