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Surgeons: At The Edge Of Life BBC Two Monday

  • 09-01-2018 11:37pm
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    vicwatson
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    Anyone watch this last night at 9pm, it was the 1st of 3, it was absolutely incredible and scary at times but these teams are superhuman imo.

    Brilliant documentary. Maybe not for the squeamish though.


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    tsue921i8wljb3
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    vicwatson wrote: »
    Anyone watch this last night at 9pm, it was the 1st of 3, it was absolutely incredible and scary at times but these teams are superhuman imo.

    Brilliant documentary. Maybe not for the squeamish though.

    Yes it was fascinating. Advanced and yet primitive at the same time with the use of drills and saws and screws. Hopefully a time will come soon where we don't have to cut part of a persons face off because they have a tumour.

    That is not to do a disservice to the skills of the surgeons. How the guy managed to stitch a blood vessel so small I do not know and the tension when it appeared to have gone wrong was unbearable. BBC do these shows so well.


  • #3
    vicwatson
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    Yes, I thought the lady wasn’t to make it first when the Doppler didn’t pick up the blood flow, there was a split second where it looked a) they were gonna go back in and then b) they were thinking, we’ve done all we can.

    But alas


  • #4
    vicwatson
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    Part 2 at 21.00

    “Medical staff stop a 67-year-old man’s heart, chill his body temperature and drain him of all his blood to allow a rare kidney tumour to be removed.”


  • #5
    Stheno
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    Good god the size of that tumour!


  • #6
    vicwatson
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    19.5 libras :eek:


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  • #7
    reni10
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    This is some of the most stressful tv watching ever!


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    An incredible show about incredible people

    What they are able to do is astonishing


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