Overview
Surgeons have always been eager to help patients, even at the risk of killing them. NOVA looks at some of the excesses of surgery, and at how new drugs and technologies are rendering some operations obsolete.
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15 - 1Top Gun and Beyond January 19, 1988 -
15 - 2How to Create a Junk Food January 26, 1988
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15 - 3Buried in Ice February 02, 1988
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15 - 4Why Planes Burn February 09, 1988
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15 - 5Battles in the War on Cancer: A Wonder Drug on Trial February 23, 1988
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15 - 6Battles in the War on Cancer: Turning the Tide March 01, 1988
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15 - 7The Mystery of the Master Builders March 08, 1988
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15 - 8Whale Rescue March 15, 1988
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15 - 9The Man Who Loved Numbers March 22, 1988
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15 - 10Race for the Superconductor March 29, 1988
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15 - 11Can You Still Get Polio? April 05, 1988
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15 - 12Pioneers of Surgery: The Brutal Craft September 06, 1988
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15 - 13Pioneers of Surgery: Into the Heart September 13, 1988
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15 - 14Pioneers of Surgery: New Organs for Old September 20, 1988
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15 - 15Pioneers of Surgery: Beyond the Knife September 27, 1988
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15 - 16Can the Vatican Save the Sistine Chapel? October 04, 1988
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15 - 17Can the Next President Win the Space Race? October 11, 1988
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15 - 18Do Scientists Cheat? October 18, 1988
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15 - 19Who Shot President Kennedy? November 15, 1988
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15 - 20The Light Stuff November 22, 1988
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15 - 21The All-American Bear December 06, 1988
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15 - 22Can We Make a Better Doctor? December 13, 1988
