surgeons

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surgeons

The knife man

the extraordinary life and times of John Hunter, father of modern surgery
2005
Chronicles the life of John Hunter, the most famous anatomist and surgeon of the eighteenth century, focusing on the contributions he made to the fields of science and medicine.

Hot lights, cold steel

life, death and sleepless nights in a surgeon's first years
2005
Orthopedic surgeon Michael Collins chronicles his four years as a surgical resident at Mayo Clinic, discussing his early feelings of incompetency, sharing stories of some of the difficult decisions he had to make when treating patients, and shedding light on the harsh and humorous realities of life for resident doctors.

Don't go

2013
Fleeing home from his military service in Afghanistan when his wife dies in an apparent freak household accident, Dr. Mike Scanlon struggles with the tragedy, his inability to bond with his new baby daughter and a downsizing in his medical practice only to discover a shocking secret that changes his understanding of everything.

The oath

a surgeon under fire
2003
Dr. Khassan Baiev describes his experiences after leaving a promising surgical career in Moscow in 1994 to provide medical services to the people of Chechnya which was under attack by Russian troops, discussing how he managed with poor facilities and few supplies, as well as the constant threat of execution by the Russians.

Charles Drew

life-saving scientist
1997
Discusses the brief life of an extraordinary young doctor whose research with blood left us many legacies.

Never too late for love

2000
Forty-seven-year-old divorc?e Tiffany Eastman goes to St. Louis to start over fresh, and finds herself falling in love with surgeon Jason Cates, her former roommate's widowed father.

Gifted hands

the Ben Carson story
2009
Dramatizes the life of Ben Carson, who overcame numerous obstacles while pursuing his dream to become one of the world's leading neurosurgeons.

Charles Drew, doctor

1994
A brief biography of Dr. Charles Drew, an American physician who researched in the field of blood transfusions.

Something the Lord made

2004
Dramatization of the true story of lab technician Vivien Thomas, a black surgical genius who fought bigotry in the 1940s, as he collaborated with Dr. Alfred Blalock on a pioneering procedure for "blue babies.".

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