About this season
They're philosophers, storytellers and pioneers in their fields. Four surgeons reflect on their lives and professions in this inspiring docuseries.
Episodes (4)
1. Saving Life Before Birth
Aired 9 December 2020 • 58 min
An innovative, compassionate fetal medicine specialist, Dr. Kypros Nicolaides guides his patients through emotionally fraught pregnancy complications.
2. Sacred Brain
Aired 9 December 2020 • 55 min
Opening the skull is sacred. Dr. Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa narrates his journey, steeped in metaphor, from migrant farmworker to premier neurosurgeon.
3. Living Donor
Aired 9 December 2020 • 51 min
Shaped by horror films, feminism and an intellectually rigorous family, Dr. Nancy Ascher makes history as the first woman to perform a liver transplant.
4. Heart & Soul
10.0Aired 9 December 2020 • 53 min
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.