HBO's Baghdad ER being released Aug 29th on DVD

From Amazon.com:



Product Description
Produced and directed by 11-time Emmy? Award-winner Jon Alpert, this 64-minute verite documentary takes an unforgettable look inside the 86th Combat Support Hospital (CSH), the U.S. Army?s premier medical facility in Iraq and former site of one of Saddam Hussein?s elite medical facilities. Shot over two months in the summer of 2005, the film puts a human face on the war?s cold casualty statistics, as doctors and nurses fight to save the lives of wounded soldiers who are Medevaced (helicoptered) in a numbingly routine basis.

From a WPost Review at time it aired.

"Baghdad ER," <snip> deals far more in actions than in words -- the sometimes desperate actions of medical personnel who repair wounds, alleviate suffering and try to restore the spirits of soldiers who arrive in the hospital with bodies riddled by shrapnel or with severely mangled limbs.

Among the first of innumerable stinging images: a nurse carrying a severed arm from the operating table to a plastic disposal bag. Says a corporal working with the team: "We do our best, our level best, to make sure that our people survive and make it back to their homes." The prologue states that 90 percent of the American soldiers wounded in the war survive, patched up at the Baghdad hospital and flown to Germany for more thorough and elaborate care. And the patients include not only American soldiers but also Iraqi citizens.

"It just hurts a little bit from the burns to keep my eyes open," says a young man who risks losing his vision (but doesn't, we learn later) from burns to his face. "It'll take time to heal -- just like my hand," philosophizes a National Guardsman who lost a thumb -- and his best buddy -- in a "traumatic incident": Their Humvee was hit by mortar fire.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/19/AR2006051901984.html

I've already pre-ordered this one.

"dear Lord-please let his death hasten the cause of peace"
I'll never forget that.