An Eye for the job

Episode of Series “Discovery”. A documentary about the quiet revolution in the operating theatre. The surgeon has now harnessed his skills to the microscope, and operations of the most minute detail are achieved with microsurgery. Depicts five case studies - a blind painter is made to see again, a deaf grandmother can hear again, a worker’s torn off hand is restored, a man’s severed thumb is replaced by his big toe, and a young woman has her fallopian tubes untied.