Burden of Genius

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2017 · 88 min · Documentary

Overview

In 1967, Dr. Thomas Starzl stunned the world with the first successful liver transplantation. His breakthrough provoked controversy. Critics accused him of recklessness, even murder. Others declared it the beginning of a medical revolution. "Burden of Genius" is the story of an innovator as complex and elusive as the biological secrets he unlocked. It is also a reflection on the price of scientific progress by the man many consider the greatest surgeon of the 20th century and the father of transplantation.

Directed by Tjardus Greidanus

Cast

• James Redford — Self – Filmmaker, Liver Transplant Patient
• Larry Kramer — Self – Writer/Activist/Liver Transplant Patient
• David Crosby — Self – Musician, Liver Transplant Patient
• David McCullough — Self – Author, Historian
• Arthur Caplan — Self – Professor of Bioethics, NYU