Medicine, Nursing, and Other Health Fields

Articles and information about medicine, nursing, pharmacology, and other health fields, as well as JH medical libraries and institutions.

Films about Johns Hopkins Hospital

Hopkins 24/7 (ABC News, 2000; DVD) -- "Groundbreaking six-part... series filmed at Johns Hopkins Hospital... over a three-month period. The series graphically depicts modern medicine as practiced at the hospital... Each broadcast consists of a series of interwoven stories featuring staff and patients, their triumphs, tragedies and everyday routines."

---End of Life: patients facing death (part of Hopkins 24/7 series; streaming video)

Hopkins: inside one of America's top hospitals (2008; DVD) -- This sequel to "Hopkins 24/7" focuses on young physicians in training at Johns Hopkins Hospital.

 

 

Nurses (2002) -- This 5-part Discovery Channel series was filmed at JH Medical Center.

Something the Lord Made (2004; streaming video) -- Filmed at Hopkins, this is the dramatic true story of Dr. Alfred Blalock (Alan Rickman) and African-American lab technician Vivien Thomas (Mos Def), who developed a procedure for performing heart surgery on "blue babies" in the 1940s.
--Also available as a DVD

A Hospital Never Sleeps (1952; videocassette) - Originally broadcast in 1952, this is a film documenting what the Johns Hopkins Hospital ER was like.