Season 1
6 episodes
48 min. per episode
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A brilliant surgeon battles personal demons while navigating high-stakes surgeries, revealing the thin line between life and death.
Episodes
Stephen's aggressive jaw cancer is a cause for critical concern. For surgeons Prav Praveen and Sat Parmar, there simply isn't a moment to lose. They urgently need to perform a radical procedure - removing and discarding Stephen's jaw.
This edition of the documentary series follows a liver transplant operation, an operation to remove a rare cancer of the soft palette and handling a particularly nasty open fracture of a woman's lower leg.
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29-year-old Laura faces an excruciatingly difficult decision. She has an incurable brain tumour. To extend her life she needs to have it removed. But, the hugely risky surgery will have a drastic effect on her memory and may even kill her.
This edition features an operation on a 66-year-old's massive aortic aneurysm, a complicated procedure to remove an angiosarcoma and an operation which carries with it a significant risk of facial paralysis.
This ground-breaking documentary series tells the stories of remarkable life-saving operations at one of Britain's largest hospitals, filmed close up with extraordinary stories of surgical skill.