Echo: Frontiers in Medicine (1970)

This is an episode of 'Echo', which discusses frontiers in medicine. The frontiers are very different. First, Dr. Michael DeBakey is profiled. DeBakey was a Lebanese-American general and cardiovascular surgeon, scientist and medical educator who became Chairman of the Department of Surgery, President, and Chancellor of Baylor College of Medicine at the Texas Medical Center in Houston, Texas. His career spanned nearly eight decades. DeBakey's surgical innovations included novel procedures to repair aortic aneurysms and dissections, the development of ventricular assist devices, and the introduction of prosthetic vascular substitutes.

Second, the Frontier Nursing Service is profiled in Leslie County, Kentucky. The organization was founded in 1925 in Leslie County, Kentucky by Mary Breckinridge shortly after she had witnessed the operation of the Highlands and Islands Medical Service which had been founded in Scotland twelve years earlier. Breckinridge intended that the Frontier Nursing Service would provide healthcare for children in remote rural areas, being moved to this work by the deaths of her own two children. Frontier Nursing Service was the first group in the United States to employ nurses who are also qualified midwives. Originally, the organization was known as the Kentucky Committee for Mothers and Babies.

I don't have any info on this program. It might have been a syndicated program.

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