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1 online resource (streaming video file) (28 min. 27 sec.) ; 171922354 bytes |
Summary |
Karen Carey is a Perth woman who grew up with a relatively simple heart problem. But when it came time for an operation to install an artificial heart valve, everything that could go wrong did.At the age of thirty-four, Karen had a stroke after taking her twin sons to school. The valve was removed and another one made of pig tissue implanted.To discover what went wrong, Karen risked everything on a court case. When the case failed, she embarked on a new career as a consumer health advocate, intent on creating a better accountability framework to protect patients when medical devices fail.Her mission now is to teach people three simple questions to ask whenever they're facing medical treatment - questions she's asking herself now as she faces her final - and riskiest - operation |
Event |
Broadcast 2009-11-09 at 20:00:00 |
Notes |
Classification: NC |
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Courts -- Information services.
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Heart valves -- Abnormalities.
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Heart -- Surgery.
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Patient advocacy.
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Australia.
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Streaming video
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Author |
Carey, Karen, contributor
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Glasson, Colleen, contributor
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Jones, Caroline, host
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Kosky, Michele, contributor
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Marshman, David, contributor
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Segler, Alexander, contributor
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Segler, Elliot, contributor
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Swan, Norman, contributor
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Tonkin, Andrew M, contributor
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Vinciguerra, Margaret, contributor
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