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Great Ormond Street. [Series 2, Episode 4], A delicate balance / produced & directed by Jonathan Taylor ; a Films of Record production.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children (London, England).
- Medical ethics--England--London--Case studies.
- Medical ethics.
- Medical technology--England--London--Case studies.
- Medical technology.
- Right to die--England--London--Case studies.
- Right to die.
- Children--Hospital care--England--London--Case studies.
- Children.
- Genre:
- Documentary television programs.
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (59 minutes)
- Place of Publication:
- London, England : BBC Worldwide, 2012.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- System Details:
- video file
- Summary:
- With a unique level of access, Great Ormond Street returns to the wards of London's foremost children's hospital. This revelatory series observes the life and death decision- making among the various highly-skilled teams working on the wards to see the many challenges they face at the cutting edge of children's medicine. By following challenging individual cases, the series reveals the complexity and many difficult decisions involved in research, clinical medicine and behind the scenes management of perhaps the best children's hospital in the world. This episode follows the intensive care and respiratory doctors at Great Ormond Street Hospital as they deal with difficult ethical decisions. Modern medicine means that most children who come here will get better and leave within a short time but some are so complex that they become dependent on technology to keep them alive. Parents and doctors must weigh up when to keep relying on technology, and when it is no longer right to continue treatment.
- Participant:
- Narrator: Steven Mackintosh.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed January 23, 2019).
- OCLC:
- 1089753396
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