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Adapted from the ground-breaking feature-length documentary, PUMPHEAD, this half hour film explores patient experiences following major heart surgery. Through a composite story of existential crises and transformative experiences of four ex-patients, including the filmmaker himself, this documentary indicates the complex diversity of emotional and cognitive changes that often occur after open-heart surgery, simultaneous with physical recovery.
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Tells the emotional true story of two men who defined the rules of their time to launch a medical revolution, set against the backdrop of the Jim Crow south. Working in 1940s Baltimore on an unprecedented technique for performing heart surgery on "blue babies", Dr. Alfred Blalock and lab technician Vivien Thomas form an impressive team. As Blalock and Thomas invent a new field of medicine, saving thousands of lives in the process, social pressures...
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Through the stories of eight ex-patients, including the filmmaker himself, this documentary indicates the complex diversity of emotional and cognitive changes that often occur after open-heart surgery, simultaneous with physical recovery. In particular the film focuses on the phenomenon of “post-traumatic growth” which often co-exists with psychological challenges and is triggered by them. All of the ex-patients in the film reveal aspects of "post-traumatic...
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Heart-related diseases are one of the leading causes of hospitalization. MY HEART ATTACK documents Montreal filmmaker Sheldon Cohen’s poignant and traumatic experience undergoing invasive, open-heart surgery. If there is comedy to be found in a heart attack, Sheldon is the man to find it.
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Today, thousands of indigenous Australian children are at risk of contracting Acute Rheumatic Fever (ARF) from a common sore throat (Strep Throat) or from the transmission of Strep A bacterium through infectious skin sore (Scabies). If these vulnerable children are not quickly identified as being symptomatic (with fever or joint pain) and treated with penicillin, their body’s autoimmune response may start mistakenly attacking their heart valves...
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Against the backdrop of segregation, a Black carpenter's apprentice with a genius for surgery and a white surgeon who dared to defy medical gospel forged a partnership that changed the course of medical history. With only a high school degree, Vivien Thomas became a cardiac pioneer and a teacher to two generations of American's premiere heart surgeons at a time when he himself could not become one. His journey is a compelling, often overlooked American...
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FIRST BLACK HEART SURGEON IN AMERICA. DANIEL HALE WILLIAMS was an African-American cardiologist that performed the first successful open heart surgery. He also founded Provident Hospital, the first non-segregated hospital in the U.S. Dr. Williams was an extraordinary man of incredible talent and merit and his exceptional accomplishments are documented with great care in this inspiring program. Born to 'freed people of color' in 1856, he attended...
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Medicine is a battle that is fought every day, in every corner of America, and all around the world. It is a fight against the ultimate villain, death, and it is waged heroically by men and women who live their lives by one profound oath: "I will do no harm." Who are these people, who each day balance selflessness and power, detachment and humanity, brilliance and fallibility? Who are their patients, who come to them vulnerable, bleeding, broken?...
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Medicine is a battle that is fought every day, in every corner of America, and all around the world. It is a fight against the ultimate villain, death, and it is waged heroically by men and women who live their lives by one profound oath: "I will do no harm." Who are these people, who each day balance selflessness and power, detachment and humanity, brilliance and fallibility? Who are their patients, who come to them vulnerable, bleeding, broken?...
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