‘Code Black’ humanizes the political
Sometimes lost in the ideological weeds of health care reform are the unintended emotional consequences on the caregivers themselves. The documentary, Code Black, goes inside Los Angeles County Hospital’s emergency room to give as a frontline view of America’s overburdened health care system. What we see is less a stinging indictment of bureaucratic red tape and more a thoughtful re-assessment of the doctor-patient relationship in modern medicine.