| Description |
1 online resource (streaming video file) (56 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound |
| Playing Time |
005524 |
| Note |
In Process Record. |
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Title from title frames. |
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Film |
| Event |
Originally produced by Stik Dawg Media in 2015. |
| Summary |
Go inside the minds and hearts of two women - (one surgeon, one patient) as they fight an inoperable brain tumor. Regina's Gift is a sometimes-frightening, sometimes-inspirational documentary film about an internationally renowned College of William and Mary associate professor's year-long, life-and-death battle with a growth so dangerous that two world-famous medical centers refused to operate.. The film chronicles Dr. Regina Root's harrowing battle with a "cavernous malformation" in the center of her brain stem, which left the Hispanic Studies scholar with the awful prospect of a slow slide into death or complete incapacitation if something didn't alter the status quo. The film also captures the spiritual and emotional odyssey of a family as they cope with the prospect of impending death - and, in turn, call upon their individual faiths - Christianity (Regina is Lutheran) and Judaism (husband Michael is a Jewish associate professor of Sociology at Christopher Newport University) - as they decide whether to roll the dice on an amazingly risky 11th-hour intervention at one of the country's most storied university hospitals when the growth explodes for a third time in a deadly hemorrhage. The film contains condensed footage from more than eight hours in the operating room during cerebrovascular neurosurgery.. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Language |
In English |
| Subject |
Health.
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Medicine.
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| Indexed Term |
Documentaries |
| Genre/Form |
Documentary films.
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| Added Author |
Stik Dawg Media (Firm),. Distributor.
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Kanopy (Firm) Distributor.
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| Music No. |
1198192 Kanopy |
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