[MWJamesLDS]

Interesting new documentary on PBS wide angle

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/ep...roduction/747/

Birth of a Surgeon
Introduction

• Birth of a Surgeon ~ Audio: Public Health Experts on Maternal Death in Mozambique and Around the World
• Birth of a Surgeon ~ Video: American Midwives ‘Catch Babies’ in Hospitals
• Birth of a Surgeon ~ Data: Mozambique and the Millennium Development Goals for Health
• Birth of a Surgeon ~ Additional Web Resources
• Birth of a Surgeon ~ Video: Preview
• Birth of a Surgeon ~ Data: Global Maternal Mortality

ABOUT THE ISSUE
Sub-Saharan Africa is the world’s deadliest place to give birth. Each year over a quarter of a million women die in childbirth in the region.

The film Birth of a Surgeon follows Emilia Cumbane, one of the first midwives-in-training. She performs Cesareans and hysterectomies in makeshift operating rooms in rural Mozambique.

[oramar]

I saw part of this program on TV. It was very impressive program.

[StudentNurseBean]

Wow, awesome!! GO NURSES, once again Very inspiring and impressive on more than one note!

[country mom]

I saw this on PBS and thought it was fascinating. And we think nurses in the US have it rough! Sure did a lot for me as far as perspective.