The Heart of the Emergency Room
2024-01-24 | 95 minutes
Plot Summary
A variety of patients are brought in by ambulance 24 hours everyday. In Japan, ambulance as a part of municipal fire departments, do not charge for transportation to hospitals. Under the motto of "emergency care that never refuses," the Ekisaikai Hospital in Nagoya accepts everyone from the elderly with no relatives to those in need. However, the number of ambulances carrying critically ill patients reached a record high due to the pandemic. Patients rejected by other hospitals are pouring into the Ekisaikai Hospital, and the beds are filling up fast... Documentary filmmaker Takuro Adachi observes doctors and patients in various generations and background, and listens to their real voices.
Cast
Recommendations
Similar Movies
-
Reimagining A Buffalo Landmark
-
Der lange Weg ans Licht
-
Letter from a Yellow Cherry Blossom
-
Sicko
-
Our Body
-
The First Wave
-
IKEM: Jak se zachraňují životy, které ještě nemusí skončit
-
Bente gaar til Sygeplejen
-
Big Charity: The Death of America's Oldest Hospital
-
À votre santé
-
Defining Hope
-
Unbroken: The Snowboard Life of Mark McMorris
-
24|7|365: The Evolution of Emergency Medicine
-
HU
-
What Did You Take?
-
A & E: When Patients Attack
-
Phases of Matter
-
Mission COVID
-
On the Edge
-
Albert Schweitzer