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Brain Doctors

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Monica Garnsey

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Brain Doctors: Episode 1: Emergency

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Episode 1: Emergency

BBC Two - Brain Doctors, Emergency

Meet the families of two patients whose lives are hanging in the balance.

Following the neurosurgeons of John Radcliffe Hospital. Meet the families of two patients whose lives hang in the balance and whose loved ones wait them for to wake up.

The brain is the most complex and mysterious organ in the body and the neurosurgeons of Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital like Jay Jayamohan deal with brains which go badly wrong. Each year the hospital's Neurosurgery Department  looks after 1,500 acutely ill patients, whose lives often hang in the balance for weeks or months.

This episode, we meet the families of two patients whose lives are hanging in that balance. Tracey, a midwife and mother of two, lies comatose with massive head injuries suffered in a car crash. Her husband John escaped the crash relatively unscathed and now sits constantly by her bed, willing her to open her eyes. Across the ward lies Martin, struck down by a mysterious virus which has rendered him unconscious and unable to breathe for himself. Every day, his wife of ten years, Lisa, checks for signs Martin is coming back to life. For doctors and patients, the neurosurgery department is a physically and mentally gruelling place to be.

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Documentary following work of the neurosurgeons at Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital.

Documentary filming the work of the neurosurgeons at Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital over seven months and meeting the patients whose lives depend on their skill.

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