Professor Magdi Yacoub, cardiothoracic surgeon

Title

Professor Magdi Yacoub, cardiothoracic surgeon

Genre

Interview

TX Date

Sep 1986

Year of production

1986

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Duration

00:03:03

Description

Professor Magdi Yacoub interview in which he describes his new job as head of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Brompton Hospital. He discusses child illness and mortality rates, and describes how he feels when patients die. Female interviewer not identified.

Contributors

Magdi Yacoub

Keywords

Death; Heart surgery; Health services; Hospitals; Children (age group); Child mortality; Organ transplantation; Medicine; Surgeons; Brompton Hospital

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