All in a Week's Work

Photographs by Jonathan Torgovnik
for Newsweek
What does an emergency room in crisis look like? Overflow patients lie in gurneys lining both sides of the hallways, while scores more sit anxiously in the waiting room outside; head-trauma victim after head-trauma victim arrive throughout one night, because most other hospitals in the area had either no ICU beds or no neurosurgeons available. After spending four days in the ER at Atlanta's Grady Memorial Hospital, photographer Jonathan Torgovnik, on assignment for NEWSWEEK, pieced together a portrait of an institution and a staff stretched to the limit. Keep clicking to see exclusive photographs of one typically grisly week.