The latest in 1970s medical technology. Good shots of medical equipment.
CU of hands making an incision. MS of Dr. Denton Cooley, the first man to perform a heart transplant in North America, sitting at his desk talking to camera about human anatomy. CU of a heart pumping, doctor's hands move in the frame. MS of machine in the operating room. CU of heart being operated on. Heart sitting in a pair of hands.
Heart monitor machine. CU of surgery, doctor's hands & a heart. MS of Dr. Cooley at his desk, talking to the camera. More shots of a beating heart. He talks about some of his dilemmas when performing the heart transplant. More shots of a heart.
MS of the artificial heart-lung machine which keeps a patient alive while the surgery is being done. More shots of a heart. MS of Dr. Cooley. Shots of various of artificial heart.
Patient in a hospital bed. CU of patient's hand, pan to a dialysis machine (artificial kidney). MS of the machine.
LS of a green landscape, zoom in to a large white building, the Sherbrooke Medical Center in Quebec. Traveling shots across the campus. Nuclear Medicine Department, cancer patient receiving treatment. Patient lays on a table & a large machine circles the patient. MS of Dr. Cooley. Technician administering the radiation therapy, turning dials, watching patient on a closed-circuit TV. Technicians uses the computer to enter patient data & monitor the treatment. MS of Dr. Cooley.
Animation of dots of light filling the screen. Voice over describes it at a picture of a living kidney created by radioactive tracer partials. Patient lays on a table while technicians work w/ the machines.
White rat (animal testing) crawling around in its cage. CU of filled test tubes. Pull back to scientist working in the lab. Machines taking measurements of the samples. MS of Dr. Cooley. Shots of various computer screens, machines used in a hospital. A machine is spewing out a piece of paper w/ a graph on it. Nurse explains how the machines help them to monitor patients in the hospital, electro-cardiogram.
Samples in a lab. Machine testing the samples. Pan across various types of hospital lab equipment at work. Sample are being drawn throw tubes & machines analysis them. CU of test tube filled w/ liquid. MS of Dr. Cooley. Various shots of medical equipment.
Traveling shot of the Sherbrooke Medical Center campus. Very large white building. Medical staff sit around a large conference table having a discussion. Sign over a door "Medecine Familiale." MS of a woman talking about going to one place for care for her whole family. MS of a doctor talking about routine medical exams.
Car driving along, pulls into driveway. Doctor gets out of car, he is conducting a home visit. MS of doctor talking to camera about how it is beneficial to treat the whole family together as their complaints are usually related. Patients in a waiting room. Doctor getting back into his car & leaving his house-call. Traveling shot from inside the car. Staff walking back into the Sherbrooke Medical Center.
MS of doctor as nurse reports about the family she has just visited on her house-call. They talk about the roots of the family problems. Nice shot of discussion in a conference room.
A audio speaker attached to a wall. Pan down to several medical staff sitting behind a 1-way window. On the other side a doctor talks to a man about his problems. Repeat shot of Sherbrooke Medical Center. MS of Dr. Cooley.