How safe is surgery?

United Kingdom, 1965

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Episode of Series “Horizon”.
Surgeons today perform operations which would have seemed miraculous only a few years ago; but even now, a century after Joseph Lister published the first accounts of his revolutionary technique of antiseptic surgery, infection after operations is a menace, probably costing the Health Service six million pounds a year. Investigates both the techniques used to prevent infection during an actual operation and research into the causes of infection which still trouble British hospitals. Reporter: Christopher Chataway.

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00:40:35:00

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1965

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