By the Hands of the Surgeon

A nurse carries newborn babies on a gurney along the corridor of the maternity hospital. A long-liver in one of the Georgian villages collects tea. One of the clinics. The patient is connected to an artificial heart stimulation unit. Doctors in the operating room are performing heart surgery. Doctors in the laboratory examine animals with organ transplants. Interview with doctors: immunologist, doctor of medical sciences R.V. Petrov, academician N.P.Dubinin. Surgeon B.V. Petrovsky is performing a kidney transplant operation. Patients in the intensive care unit. In the laboratory, doctors check the work of artificial organs for transplantation to patients. The surgeon sews the artificial ventricle to the patient's heart. Republic of South Africa. Cape Town city. Surgeon K. Bernard with a patient who received a heart transplant from a woman who died in the crash. Photos of patients with similar operations, but all these people died after living for a while.

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