Bethune: The Making of a Hero
Canadian surgeon Norman Bethune, 18901939, (Donald Sutherland) journeys 1500 miles into China to reach Mao Zedong s eighth route army in the Wu Tai mountains where he will build hospitals, provide care, and train medics. Flashbacks narrate the earlier events of his life: a bout with tuberculosis at the Trudeau sanatorium; the selfadministration of an experimental pneumothorax; the invention of operative instruments; his fascination with socialism; a journey into medical Russia; and the founding of a mobil
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