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  title info:
    title: Flying on one engine
    sub title: the slumdog surgeon
  name:
    name part: Weinstein, Joshua Z.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: moving image
  genre: videorecording
  genre: Internet videos.
  genre: Documentary films.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2009
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (51 min.).
  abstract: This is the story of the inspiring work of 76-year-old Dr. Sharadkumar Dicksheet who continues his commitment to the Indian children on whom he operates every year. He performs free reconstructive facial surgery in marathon-like sessions, correcting up to 700 children who have cleft lips and other facial deformities. Without the operations, these children would be not be able to develop normally and would be treated as outcasts. The eight-time Nobel Prize nominee is treated like a living god from the moment he arrives in India, with a reverence bordering on worship in the communities where he works. Watching the people who organize Dr. Dicksheet s surgery camps and those who help him perform the surgery, particularly his tough-as-nails nurse, viewers get an extremely up-close picture of contemporary India. When he is in New York, Dr. Dicksheet subsists on social security in his ramshackle Brooklyn apartment, wheelchair-bound, living without a larynx, and diagnosed with a life-threatening aortic aneurysm. Dr. Dicksheet suffered a car accident in the 1970s, a battle with cancer in the 1980s and heart attacks in the 1990s. The film shows how this quirky, funny, and sometimes difficult character overcomes his own ailments by curing others. His stamina and commitment are truly staggering.
  target audience: For College; Adult audiences.
  target audience: general
  note: directed by Joshua Z. Weinstein.
  note: Originally released as DVD.
  note: Title from resource description page (viewed May 24, 2011).
  note: Slide.
  note: English.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Dicksheet, Sharadkumar
  subject:
    topic: Health
  subject:
    geographic: India
  subject:
    topic: Medicine
  classification: RD27.35.D53 W456 2009
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: VaAlASP
    record creation date: 080405
    record change date: 20260324205826.2
    record identifier: in00003745376