You could imagine the chaotic scene at Upstate University Hospital’s emergency department in a television drama like “ER” or “The Pitt.” But the blood, pain and indignities are all too real for patients needing care from the region’s only Level 1 trauma center.
Upstate opened the ER doors to syracuse.com reporter Douglass Dowty and photographer Scott Trimble for a brief but revealing look at what goes on there every day — and to show why the hospital says it needs hundreds of millions of dollars from state government to dramatically expand its emergency room.
Our journalists’ words and pictures make a powerful argument…