The documentary series charting the ground-breaking research carried out during the first five decades of the NHS.

Donald Ross has been part of a revolution in cardiac surgery. When he was a newly qualified doctor in the late forties - the early days of heart surgery - dying patients were packed in ice to slow their heartbeats. Surgeons had just eight minutes to operate.
Today, heart defects that would have meant certain death 50 years ago can be corrected quickly and simply.

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