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The English surgeon

This very engaging documentary presents an intimate portrait of the life and work of Henry Marsh, a British neurosurgeon who travels to Ukraine every year to perform life-saving operations for free on people who otherwise wouldn't receive help. He also regularly ships and carries over discarded medical equipment from the UK. We follow the case of Marian, a young man who has a brain tumour which is causing him to have severe epilepsy - his operation is shown in full detail. Marsh narrates the story of Tanya, a young girl he tried to save with surgery 2 years previously but who died completely disabled from his efforts. This case still troubles him and he returns to visit her mother which proves to be a highly emotional occasion. Many of the people he sees in the clinic in Ukraine have severe brain tumours which there aren't the resources to treat and Marsh tragically has to turn people away. This programme shows us what it would be like to live in a country that has no national health scheme, the realities of a non-Western operating theatre as well as the day-to-day life and concerns of a neurosurgeon faced with having to make almost unbearable medical decisions.

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  • ""Henry Marsh is one of London's leading brain surgeons, but in a second-life he devotes himself to the tragically under-resourced medical service in the Ukraine, assisting the practice of his close friend Dr Igor Kurilets. Together they achieve minor miracles using improvised surgical equipment such as consumer-standard rechargeable drills to operate on brain tumours. This extremely moving, award-winning documentary follows the two doctors as they work to overcome the setbacks and provide their patients with a second-chance at life." -- Container."
  • "Follows leading British brain surgeon Henry Marsh's work for the under-resourced medical service in the Ukraine, assisting close friend Dr Igor Kurilets, using improvised surgical equipment to operate on brain tumours."
  • ""Dr. Henry Marsh is a renowned neurosurgeon from the UK, who lives with his wife in their luxurious South London home. But Dr. Marsh lives a double life - every year, for the past fifteen years, the good doctor spends a few weeks in the Ukraine, offering free medical consultations and performing brain surgery on tumours deemed 'inoperable' by Ukrainian doctors. In primitive conditions and without the proper tools, Marsh and his protégé, Dr. Igor Petrovich, perform some of the most highly complex and dangerous surgeries for a poverty-stricken and hope-deprived people. Filmed in the Ukrainian winter of 2007, The English Surgeon is an awe-inspiring, humorous and emotive documentary about one man's incredible desire to help in any way he can. A truly inspirational story about a remarkably selfless individual and the country he has grown to love"--ABC-TV website."
  • "This very engaging documentary presents an intimate portrait of the life and work of Henry Marsh, a British neurosurgeon who travels to Ukraine every year to perform life-saving operations for free on people who otherwise wouldn't receive help. He also regularly ships and carries over discarded medical equipment from the UK. We follow the case of Marian, a young man who has a brain tumour which is causing him to have severe epilepsy - his operation is shown in full detail. Marsh narrates the story of Tanya, a young girl he tried to save with surgery 2 years previously but who died completely disabled from his efforts. This case still troubles him and he returns to visit her mother which proves to be a highly emotional occasion. Many of the people he sees in the clinic in Ukraine have severe brain tumours which there aren't the resources to treat and Marsh tragically has to turn people away. This programme shows us what it would be like to live in a country that has no national health scheme, the realities of a non-Western operating theatre as well as the day-to-day life and concerns of a neurosurgeon faced with having to make almost unbearable medical decisions."@en
  • "Henry Marsh is one of London's leading brain surgeons, but in a second-life he devotes himself to the tragically under-resourced medical service in the Ukraine, assisting the practice of his close friend Dr Igor Kurilets. Together they achieve minor miracles using improvised surgical equipment such as consumer-standard rechargeable drills to operate on brain tumours. This extremely moving, award-winning documentary follows the two doctors as they work to overcome the setbacks and provide their patients with a second-chance at life."
  • ""Dr. Henry Marsh is a renowned neurosurgeon from the UK, who lives with his wife in their comfortable South London home. Every year, for the past fifteen years, the good doctor spends a few weeks in the Ukraine, offering free medical consultations and performing brain surgery on tumours deemed "inoperable" by Ukranian doctors. A truly inspirational story about a remarkably selfless individual and the country he has grown to love"--Container."
  • "What is it like to have God like surgical powers, yet to struggle against your own humanity? What is it like to try and save a life, and yet to fail? British neurosurgeon Henry Marsh openly confronts the dilemmas of the doctor patient relationship on his latest mission to the Ukraine."
  • "What is it like to have God like surgical powers, yet to struggle against your own humanity? What is it like to try and save a life, and yet to fail? British neurosurgeon Henry Marsh openly confronts the dilemmas of the doctor patient relationship on his latest mission to the Ukraine."@en
  • "THE ENGLISH SURGEON is a compelling profile of British neurosurgeon Henry Marsh, a pioneer in his field. The documentary focuses on the ethical dilemmas facing his profession, with Marsh talking candidly on the subject whilst working in an under-equipped, over-burdened Ukraine hospital. Features an original soundtrack by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis."
  • "What is it like to have God-like surgical powers, yet to struggle against your own humanity? What is it like to try and save a life, and yet to fail? British neurosurgeon Henry Marsh openly confronts the dilemmas of the doctor patient relationship on his latest mission to the Ukraine."@en

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