Great Ormond Street. Series 2, Episode 6, Experimental surgery / producer, Jonathan Taylor ; director & series producer, Simon Gilchrist ; a Films of Record production
With a unique level of access, Great Ormond Street returns to the wards of London's foremost children's hospital. This revelatory series observes the life and death decision- making among the various highly-skilled teams working on the wards to see the many challenges they face at the cutting edge of children's medicine. By following challenging individual cases, the series reveals the complexity and many difficult decisions involved in research, clinical medicine and behind the scenes management of perhaps the best children's hospital in the world. Following the hospital's cardiothoracic surgeons as they perform some of the most difficult and innovative surgery in pediatric medicine. For children who cannot be cured using conventional methods, the only option is experimental surgery. However, surgery at the edge of what is possible carries the highest risk. As these families and doctors step into the unknown they face tough ethical questions about whether it is right to proceed with such uncertainty
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