NY Med

Inside New York Hospitals: Along with his TV career, Dr. Oz is a highly skilled heart surgeon; A mother of two must talk to her doctors while undergoing brain surgery; Residents in transplant surgery share their experiences.

A patient counts on a liver transplant to save his life; Trauma surgeon reflects on working in New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina hit; ER nurse deals with an unruly drunk.

HIV positive patient awaits a heart transplant; Dr. Oz becomes the patient and undergoes a colonoscopy.

Trauma surgeon Valeria Simone treats man with bizarre eating disorder; Pediatric surgeon needs to remove golf ball size tumor from a 4-year-old’s heart; Surgeon Leonard Girardi struggles with a patient’s ruptured aorta.

A single mother learns she has breast cancer; A man donates part of his liver to his brother; First-year emergency medicine resident Ben van Boxtel gets punked by colleagues.

A 26-year-old with cystic fibrosis needs new lungs; Surgical residents Anthony Watkins and Arundi Mahendran share trials of being hazed by senior surgeons.

Dr. Oz performs a heart valve replacement on an elderly woman; Pediatric surgeon must reconstruct a newborn baby’s heart; Young trauma surgeon tries to save a critically injured pedestrian struck by a vehicle.

A mother faces a risky surgery to remove cancer from her abdomen; Dr. Fabrizio Michelassi performs colon surgery on an 18-year-old with Crohn’s disease.