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All new 6 part video series featuring the Floating Doctors
Dr. Ben LaBrot’s non-profit organization sees many thousands of patients, and delivers a huge volume of medical supplies across Central America and Haiti. Despite the daunting statistics of healthcare on this scale, Floating Doctors stays true to its central ethos: focusing on each individual patient. Hand-carried ultrasound is a key technology in making this priority real. Sign up now to be the first to know when each episode premiers.
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Video 1:
Getting the Edge on diagnosis
Dr. Ben LaBrot puts a new Edge system through its paces. Assessing the need for surgery early is crucial when this elderly patient is so far from any healthcare facilities.
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Video 2:
Gustivino's Story
High up in the mountains above Pueblo Nuevo the young boy Gustivino struggles with an unknown heart defect, his health fast deteriorating.
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Video 3:
Mind's eye view
Rigoberto’s painful inflammation is worrying. In a makeshift clinic, the young medical student Mackenzie uses the Edge ultrasound system for the first time.
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Video 4:
Spreading the vision
The parteras – Panamanian midwives – learn how to identify baby and placenta on screen, and take the first steps to learning how to spot problematic births early.
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Video 5:
Maria's baby
A potentially catastrophic breach birth lies ahead for Maria. With overwhelming difficulties in getting her to a hospital, Dr Jordan assesses the options.
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Video 6:
Breaking the barriers
Listless and sleepy, the three week old baby is making mother anxious. At the follow up clinic its low weight is also concerning physicians.
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