Alice Roberts: Our Hospital Through Time - Season 1
Season 1
Episodes
Episode 1
In this first episode Professor Alice Roberts heads to Barts' extraordinary archive, which holds almost 900 years of fascinating and priceless artefacts from the history of the hospital. She's given special access to one of their most precious items dating back to 1137 – a document for a grant signed by Barts's founder, a courtier called Rahere, still bearing its original wax seal.
Across the courtyard in the high-tech King George V Building are ten state-of-the-art catheterisation laboratories, where a crack team of cardiologists use minimally invasive technology to save the lives of thousands of heart patients a year.
Episode 2
Alice Roberts uncovers the hospital's past and reveals how centuries of medical innovation continue to inform life-saving work in the modern day. She joins surgeon Henrietta Wilson as she prepares to use a million pound surgical robot to remove a cancerous lung tumour. Also, Alice recreates a grisly 17th-century operation on a 'patient' suffering from an enormous bladder stone.
Episode 3
Alice Roberts investigates how Barts came perilously close to collapse in the 1500s. As Henry VIII turned the country upside with his marriage to Anne Boleyn and his break from the church in Rome, he confiscated the hospital's property leaving it penniless. In the modern hospital, cameras follow patient Maxine who is receiving a stem cell transplant from her son.
Episode 4
Alice meets a 24-year-old cancer patient who has come in for urgent treatment, comparing the high-dose chemotherapy drugs he is given to those available in the apothecary shop set up in Barts in the 1600s. She also looks back at the Great Plague of 1665, asking medical historian Lesley Smith how modern-day medics would have dealt with the patients that arrived at the hospital.
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