A series of six programmes showing how new anaesthetics, drugs and surgical techniques have transformed the art of medicine during the last decade.
Most of us will certainly spend several weeks of our lives in hospital in varying degrees of discomfort and apprehension. One middle-aged housewife and mother entered a North Country hospital for a major operation. This is how she faced up to the experience and what happened to her.
Compiled and narrated by TONY VAN DEN BERGH
Producer ALAN BURGESS
