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The Science of Healing

Season 1 2015 - 2018

  • 2015-06-22T00:00:00Z
  • 28m
  • 4h 40m (10 episodes)
A series of docu-dramas that follow a group of doctors who push the envelope when it comes to medicine, finding new innovated ways to heal their patients. The doctors live, work, and practice in St. Louis, MO for SLUCare Physician Group. These advancements will change the way doctors around the world practice medicine. The Science of Healing aired on KMOV-TV Ch. 4. St. Louis, MO

10 episodes

Series Premiere

2015-06-22T00:00:00Z

1x01 Reconstructive Surgery

Series Premiere

1x01 Reconstructive Surgery

  • 2015-06-22T00:00:00Z28m

Special Shows How SLUCare Physicians are Shaping Medicine Today. In this episode, Dr. Kraemer uses a new material to not only regrow digits for his patients, but he has found a way to save limbs. These advancements will change the way doctors around the world practice medicine.

2015-08-24T00:00:00Z

1x02 3D Printing

1x02 3D Printing

  • 2015-08-24T00:00:00Z28m

SLUCare radiologists and surgeons are working with engineers at Saint Louis University to give medical imaging new depth, breadth and meaning. 3D printing allows surgeons to hold a heart, a bone or an aneurysm in their hands long before an incision is made to correct the problem. 3D printing: This technology changes the game.

2016-01-26T00:00:00Z

1x03 Geriatrics

1x03 Geriatrics

  • 2016-01-26T00:00:00Z28m

Special Shows How SLUCare Geriatric Medicine Specialists are Shaping Care Internationally. Watch to see how Dr. John Morley and the SLUCare Geriatric Medicine team are working to slow the aging process and create tools for the care and assessment of older patients.

2016-07-25T00:00:00Z

1x04 Deep Brain Stimulation

1x04 Deep Brain Stimulation

  • 2016-07-25T00:00:00Z28m

Showcases the Work of SLUCare Movement Specialists, Including a Neurologist, Neurosurgeon and Neuropsychologist. See how SLUCare doctors are advancing surgical tools and techniques to treat patients with Parkinson's disease, essential tremor, dystonia and obsessive compulsive disorder. Deep brain stimulation offers patients the opportunity to regain control and take back their lives.

2016-11-30T00:00:00Z

1x05 Saving Babies

1x05 Saving Babies

  • 2016-11-30T00:00:00Z28m

SLUCare OB/GYN Team helps three couples have successful pregnancies. Maternal-fetal medicine specialists help mother overcome complications to deliver twin girls born at 25 weeks. Surgeons operate on twins still in the womb, halting the potentially devastating effects of twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome. Innovative surgery for endometriosis led to a long-awaited pregnancy for one young couple.

2017-05-31T00:00:00Z

1x06 Liver Disease

1x06 Liver Disease

  • 2017-05-31T00:00:00Z28m

KMOV Special Highlights the Life-Changing Work of SLUCare Liver Specialists. A dream team of SLUCare doctors is engaged in groundbreaking liver research. Hear how these specialists already saved Naomi Judd's life and how they are now tackling a new liver virus that's sweeping the country.

2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

1x07 Transplant Surgery

1x07 Transplant Surgery

  • 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z28m

An infant kept alive by a machine, a woman desperate for a new kidney, and a man with a rare liver disease... Three very unique patients with life-threatening illnesses are connected by the hope of science. Watch The Science of Healing and witness how SLUCare transplant doctors at SSM Health hospitals were able to restore lives.

This episode shows how SLUCare surgeons can "stand" inside a patient's body and see, with remarkable 3D detail, the operation site before ever lifting a scalpel. Sound like science fiction? This innovative concept is reality and the technology was developed here in St. Louis by a team of SLUCare radiologists and members of Saint Louis University's IT department.

1x09 Reconstructive Surgery - Part II

  • 2018-06-27T00:00:00Z28m

A SLUCare physician who's found a way to regrow fingers is now using the same technology to do much more. See how Dr. Bruce Kraemer is giving patients their lives back.

2018-12-04T00:00:00Z

1x10 Working Wonders for Kids

1x10 Working Wonders for Kids

  • 2018-12-04T00:00:00Z28m

See how SLUCare Physicians restore hearing in babies who might otherwise be profoundly deaf using cochlear implants, restore sight in children who are losing their vision due to cataracts and help children walk normally that were born with a club foot.

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