# Lenox Hill (2020)

> An intimate docuseries following four doctors at New York's Lenox Hill Hospital through the highs and lows of lifesaving care.

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## Facts

- Seasons: 1
- Episodes: 9
- Episode runtime: 50 min
- Status: Ended
- Genres: documentary
- Created by: Ruthie Shatz, Adi Barash
- Network: Netflix
- Cast: John Boockvar, David Langer, Mirtha Macri, Amanda Little Richardson
- TMDB rating: 8.6/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12190580/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: brisk
- Intensity: moderate
- Complexity: simple
- Violence: none
- Tone: intimate, tense, compassionate, humane

## What critics say

Viewers broadly find the docuseries an intimate, moving and well-crafted look at emergency and surgical medicine in a busy New York hospital.

## Synopsis

Lenox Hill (2020) is a American documentary docuseries created by Ruthie Shatz and Adi Barash for Netflix. Following four real physicians, including neurosurgeons John Boockvar and David Langer alongside emergency physician Mirtha Macri and obstetrician-gynecologist Amanda Little Richardson, the nine-episode run observes the lifesaving work performed inside Lenox Hill Hospital on Manhattan's Upper East Side. The engine of the series is simple and urgent: each episode follows patients from routine births through emergency rooms to complex brain surgery, while the doctors juggle crowded schedules, unpredictable cases and the personal toll that follows them home. Rather than scripted drama, the camera stays close to the operating table, the delivery room and the hallways where decisions are made in seconds. The result is a single-season, self-contained observational series with a steady, humane pace and a tone that is intense yet compassionate. Viewers drawn to unscripted medical storytelling will find the same intimacy and stakes that define the Netflix hospital documentary tradition, and fans of Hospital and Trauma: Life in the ER will feel at home here. Its quiet respect for both patients and practitioners makes it a deeply absorbing portrait of modern urban medicine.

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