The Surgeon's Cut
2020 · Netflix · 54 min · 1 season
S01E04 · Heart & Soul
Wed, 9 Dec, 11:00 pm
After falling in love with the heart, Dr. Devi Shetty takes the next step to become a cardiac surgeon. Then a visit with Mother Teresa changes his life.
About
The Surgeon's Cut profiles four ground-breaking surgeons from around the world, each with a visionary approach to their craft. Viewers will follow along as they perform innovative operations and procedures, and reveal personal insight into their journey into medicine, providing a unique window into the world of surgery. Through the individual stories of these experts, the series explores how our understanding of the human body is constantly being reinvented by new discoveries and techniques. Specialty areas featured include fetal medicine, neurosurgery, transplant surgery and cardiology.
Episodes
- E01
Saving Life Before Birth
Wed, 9 Dec· 58 minAn innovative, compassionate fetal medicine specialist, Dr. Kypros Nicolaides guides his patients through emotionally fraught pregnancy complications.
- E02
Sacred Brain
Wed, 9 Dec· 55 minOpening the skull is sacred. Dr. Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa narrates his journey, steeped in metaphor, from migrant farmworker to premier neurosurgeon.
- E03
Living Donor
Wed, 9 Dec· 51 minShaped by horror films, feminism and an intellectually rigorous family, Dr. Nancy Ascher makes history as the first woman to perform a liver transplant.
- E04
Heart & Soul
Wed, 9 Dec· 53 minAfter falling in love with the heart, Dr. Devi Shetty takes the next step to become a cardiac surgeon. Then a visit with Mother Teresa changes his life.
