Episodes (20)
Nov 30, 2006
Ghanaian-born New Yorker Dr. Oheneba Boachie-Adjei is arguably the world's top surgeon of spinal deformities. We follow his most challenging surgery to date, to save the life a 15-year-old boy from Sierra Leone whose back is bent forward at almost 90 degrees. We also see him complete an eight-year-long surgical project on a 10-year-old girl from Long Island. Without Dr. Boachie, her bent back would have crushed her lungs and killed her at age 2. Now, at age 10, she's about to enter junior high, and Dr. Boachie must do one final surgery to free her from the back brace ...
Dec 07, 2006
Gretchen Miller was an 18-year-old college student with a bright future ahead of her. Then, in one day, everything changed. She collapsed with intense stomach pain on the way to the library. A piece of her intestine had twisted. Now, 14 years later, her entire digestive system has shut down. She has not eaten a meal for over a decade, living instead on bags of fluid fed intravenously. During the past six months, Gretchen's liver went into acute failure and her weight dropped to 67 pounds; she was given just weeks to live. Only one man could even hope to save her: Dr. ...
Dec 14, 2006
Sky Titus, a Native American teenager, has been battling life-threatening epilepsy for half his life. Medication can't control his violent seizures. Sky's mother, Leah Harper, is a traditional medicine woman who foresaw Sky's illness when he was born. Now, in a blend of traditional ritual and Western medicine, a new cure will be sought. Dr. Victor Perry, a renowned neurosurgeon from the University of California in San Francisco, will hunt for the tissue in Sky's brain that is causing the seizures. Leah will bless Dr. Perry's hands outside the operating room and ...
Dec 21, 2006
Allison Lowery was born with a heart her doctors call a train wreck. It was on the wrong side of her body, it was backward and it had a hole in it. The main arteries leading to her heart were reversed - a deadly condition that deprives the body of oxygen-rich blood. She had three surgeries by the time she was 10, including one that nearly killed her. Not only did Allison survive, she became a track star, jumping high hurtles for her school team, outside Little Rock, Ark. Now, just two months before her 17th birthday, Allison is due for a valve replacement. It's ...
Dec 28, 2006
Dominic Bakewell played guitar in the 1980s rock outfit Berlin. Now age 48, he's left the wild life of rock 'n' roll behind. As a husband and father of a 2-year-old son, he writes children's songs and still loves to play guitar. Three months ago, however, Dominic was struck by a series of sudden seizures. MRI scans found a tumor the size of a plum on the left frontal side of his brain - right next to the area that controls his guitar-playing hand. It's so close to other vital areas like speech that leading UCLA neurosurgeon Dr. Linda Liau proposed doing the surgery ...
Jan 04, 2007
Three pairs of complete strangers try to save each other's lives. Six Americans from across the country take part in a high-risk and high-stakes "triple kidney exchange" that could save - or end - the lives of three of them. Three are stuck on dialysis, and on a long waiting list for a kidney. All three have unusual cocktails of antibodies in their bloodstreams, and they will probably die before they can get off the list. But, in a unique donor-matching program at Johns Hopkins Hospital, in Baltimore, they get a chance to receive a life-saving kidney from a live donor...
Jan 11, 2007
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Jan 18, 2007
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Jan 01, 2007
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Oct 05, 2007
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Oct 19, 2007
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Oct 26, 2007
Palestinian family on the beach in Gaza is blown up by an errant explosion. The Palestinian Children's Relief Fund (PCRF) arranges for Adham, the youngest boy in the family who's left leg was blown apart, to fly to the US for a nerve transplant by the renowned Dr. Elkwood who helped pioneer this new surgery.
Jan 24, 2008
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Jan 31, 2008
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Feb 07, 2008
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Feb 14, 2008
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Feb 21, 2008
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Feb 28, 2008
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Mar 06, 2008
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Mar 13, 2008
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About
Surgery Saved My Life Season 1 (2006) is released on Nov 30, 2006. Watch Surgery Saved My Life online - the English Documentary TV series from United States. Surgery Saved My Life is directed by Pascal Franchot and created by Mark Rowland with Ed Cunningham and Gretchen Miller.