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LIFE (PART 2) | Faye Wattleton | PBS
Author and longtime feminist Faye Wattleton engages in a frank conversation about how she defines her life and her own cosmetic procedures. 01:28
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LIFE (PART 2) | Plastic Surgery | PBS
What are the three most dangerous words in plastic surgery? Dr. Gerald Pitman, Clinical Professor of Surgery at NYU's School of Medicine, adds that the seriousness of undergoing surgery should never be ... 01:18
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P.O.V. | The English Surgeon | PBS (#2210)
What is it like to have power over life and death, and yet to struggle with your own humanity? This is the story of acclaimed British neurosurgeon Henry Marsh, who has traveled to Ukraine for 15 years ... 02:16
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WIDE ANGLE | Birth of a Surgeon | PBS (#703)
The film Birth of a Surgeon follows Emilia Cumbane, one of the first midwives-in-training. She performs Cesareans and hysterectomies in makeshift operating rooms in rural Mozambique. We follow Cumbane ... 03:15
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American Experience | The Lobotomist | PBS
Full Program: Dr. Walter Freeman gained fame for perfecting the lobotomy. 54:46
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WIDE ANGLE | Birth of a Surgeon | PBS (#703)
In 2004, Mozambique introduced a new health care initiative to train midwives in emergency obstetric care in an attempt to guarantee access to quality medical care during pregnancy and childbirth. 03:23
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WIRED SCIENCE | Deep Brain Stimulation | PBS
You've heard of a pacemaker for the heart, but what about for the head? We'll go under the knife with a Cardington, Ohio farmer who's getting electrodes implanted in his brain to alleviate the debilitating ... 02:29
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NOVA scienceNOW | Sleepless Surgeons | PBS
Jeff Ellenbogen at Harvard Medical School is hard at work on a study to find out how sleep affects the learning and performance of surgical skills. Neil deGrasse Tyson, the host of NOVA scienceNOW, visits ... 03:10
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Independent Lens | KNOCKING | PBS (#825)
They are moral conservatives who stay out of politics, but they won a record number of court cases expanding freedom for everyone. They refuse blood transfusions on religious grounds, but they embrace ... 01:12
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P.O.V. | Lumo | Preview | PBS (#2012)
The agonies of present-day Africa are deeply etched on the bodies of women. In eastern Congo on the Rwandan border, vying militias, armies and bandits use rape as a weapon of terror. Lumo Sinai was just ... 05:45
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