WHEN WATCHING Baghdad ER, it is important to remind yourself that it’s been worse. For every soldier instantly killed in combat during the Civil War, two died in the hospital from battlefield injuries ...

The American people are currently impatient with the progress of the war in Iraq, and the Left and many liberals are counting on this impatience to reverse or at least retard conservative political ...

The daily headlines from Iraq can reduce war to numbers. A new documentary airing on HBO puts a human face on the statistics. Baghdad ER takes viewers inside the chaotic place where doctors and nurses ...

The Bush administration has censored photographs of the wounded, body bags, and flag-draped coffins. Imagine its fears over large numbers of Americans viewing Jon Alpert and Matthew O’Neill’s new ...

The Iraqi conflict may eventually become known as the “survivors’ war,” because of the all-time high ratio of wounded who returned home alive. I was one of them, thanks partly to the Army field ...

Between 2007 and 2009, Baker spent 15 months in Iraq as part of the emergency medical team at the U.S. Army%E2%80%99s 86th Combat Support Hospital in Baghdad, and ...

To read political motives into "Baghdad ER," a poignant and powerful documentary about military medical personnel working in Iraq, would be to insult and diminish not only the film but also its ...

American Forces Network has decided not to pursue the rights to broadcast “Baghdad ER,” the graphic HBO documentary that portrays the Iraq war from inside the 86th Combat Support Hospital.

The voice of a mother who has buried her son set the tone. Michael Baker began his weekly KZUM program, “Room 101,” with a recording of Paula Zwillinger, who talked about watching footage of doctors ...

As powerful as anything apt to be shown on television this or any other year, this HBO documentary provides a grisly, grueling portrait of life at the 86th Combat Support Hospital in Baghdad -- ...