I'm Rebecca Lervoy and this is You Can't make this up as the podcast where we uncover the true stories behind

your favorite Netflix documentaries and films. On today's episode, we take a closer look at the Netflix documentary series, Emergency NYC.

We just got activated for a level one trauma, a 17 year old who was shot last night. He was brought to the

emergency department. Today we're talking to directors Eddie Barash and Ruthie Shats.

With more than 300 rescue calls a minute, emergency medicine in New York City is a fast-paced

world where time and skill make the difference between life and death.

The staff at area hospitals are constantly confronted by those who need care in the

gravest of situations.

A teenager caught in a shootout, a teacher needing a liver

transplant, an opera singer with a brain tumor. But these doctors and nurses are

also witnesses to the public health challenges of the day, the

scourge of gun violence, the lingering effects of care delayed by the pandemic, and the

burnout of their colleagues likely to leave medicine altogether.

Emergency NYC brings the struggles and triumphs of helicopter flight nurses,

paramedics, and a staff of world-class surgeons, as well as the many patients who need

their help the most.

You have to respect the fact that that commitment to the life of another human being is something that we make and that we do and that we live with that all the time. And I'm joined now by directors and executive producers Adi Barrage and Ruthie Schatz.

Welcome to you can't make this up.

Thank you very much.

Thanks for having us.

So it wasn't that long ago that hospitals were total no-go zones.

Loved ones couldn't even get in to say goodbye to their dying relatives and I'm

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