Tag Results for "medicine"
by Ellen Frick
Premiere: October 9, 2009
Artificial eye makers combine artistry, skill and compassion, making eyes that are masterful works of art, and rekindling hope for their patients.
by Geoffrey Smith
Premiere: September 8, 2009
A remarkable depiction of one doctor's commitment to relieving suffering and of the emotional turmoil he undergoes in bringing hope to a desperate people.
by Eric Daniel Metzgar
Premiere: July 7, 2009
When a guitarist suffers a brain hemorrhage onstage, doctors doubt he will emerge from a coma. The story of a family's astonishing struggle in the face of tragedy.
by Roger Weisberg
Premiere: September 30, 2008
What happens if you fall sick and are one of 47 million people in America without health insurance? Critical Condition puts a human face on the nation's growing health care crisis.
by Maren Monsen
Premiere: July 21, 1998
When does life become a fate worse than death? In this age of medical "miracles," increasing numbers of doctors, patients and their families are forced to face this question.
by Judith Helfand
Premiere: June 17, 1997
Battling personal grief, corporate power, and her mother's guilt, Judith Helfand turns the camera on herself and her family to document her battle with DES-related cancer.