Faculty members affiliated with New Jersey Medical School (unless otherwise noted) who were among the staff appearing in NY Med

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From left to right, faculty members affiliated with New Jersey Medical School (unless otherwise noted) who were among the staff appearing in NY Med: Adam D. Fox, Terry Hoben (University Hospital Emergency Medical Services), Tiffany Murano, David H. Livingston, Devashish Anjaria, Ziad Sifri, and Anne Mosenthal.

Faculty members at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School (NJMS) are known for their teaching, research, and surgical skills—certainly not for appearing on prime-time television. But there they were, several members of NJMS, in starring roles in the second season of ABC’s documentary series NY Med. The eight-episode summer series dramatized trauma teams working in the emergency rooms at University Hospital in Newark (UH), the primary teaching facility of NJMS (part of Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences). NY Med also revealed the working life of renowned surgeons affiliated with New York-Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan.

Anything could—and did—happen on the show. In Episode 2, the UH trauma team treated a 19-year-old for multiple fractures after he crash-landed in a small plane during his first flying lesson, a landing that his instructor did not survive. One episode showed a young couple traumatized by a home invasion; in another, a man fell three stories from a fire escape and survived. What was clear in one broadcast after another, in witnessing the harrowing emergency room procedures, was the dedication and humanity of the trauma teams.