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1 online resource (streaming video file) (27 min. 8 sec.) ; 163728990 bytes |
Summary |
Every day in Australia over 40,000 patients are in hospital. While medicine tends their bodies, hospital chaplains tend their souls. Over eight episodes we follow our chaplains' journeys alongside the patients and their families at three major hospitals. They are Catholic, Protestant, Muslim, Jewish and Buddhist. Regardless of their faith, they all meet the same challenges - to help make sense of the mystery of illness, pain, suffering and despair. This series offers a unique bedside view of the daily life and death drama of hospital life through our chaplains' eyes. This week a teenage boy is rushed to ICU at Sydney's Royal North Shore Hospital with massive burns to his body after being caught in a petrol explosion at work. Chaplain Di Roche supports the boy's distraught parents as their son hovers between life and death through a series of critical operations on his arms, legs and body. Meanwhile, at Liverpool Hospital in Sydney's south-west, Buddhist Chaplain Hai Trieu Hanh visits a wife and mother whose 42-year-old husband is dying. Chaplain Hanh helps her find acceptance through Buddhist teachings, and offers advice from her own hard won journey of suffering.PRODUCTION DETAILS:Narrator: Geraldine Doogue, Series Producer & Writer: Paul Hawker, Editor: Lile Judickas, Location Producers: Richard Corfield / Kim Akhurst/Wendy Boynton, Executive Producer: Rose Hesp |
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Broadcast 2012-05-06 at 18:30:00 |
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Classification: PG |
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Burns and scalds -- Patients.
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Burns and scalds -- Treatment.
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Husband and wife.
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Parent and teenager -- Psychological aspects.
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Suffering -- Religious aspects.
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New South Wales -- Sydney.
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Streaming video
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Author |
Doogue, Geraldine, host
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Douglas, Bronwyn, contributor
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Harris, Roger, contributor
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Hodgins, Graham, contributor
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Roche, Di, contributor
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Trieu Hanh, Hai, contributor
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