“This is life” documentary online!

The documentary movie, which we were informing about for the last half year is already finished and premiered in Berlin. You can hear the first impressions from the viewers here.

An excerpt from the video description:

“(…)”This is Life” depicts how Diego Gonzalez Rivas, a Spanish surgeon who became the first in the world to perform single port thoracoscopic surgery in 2010, changed his patients’ lives in the four years following the creation of the technique. Thoracic surgery is performed mainly to remove part of the lung for lung cancer sufferers.

The movie was directed by Daniel Lopez, and it was recorded in different countries such as Emirates, UK, Poland, Spain, Russia or China. In the movie we can see how Dr Gonzalez Rivas travel around the world teaching the uniportal VATS technique.

Dani Lopez met Rivas in 2010, a few months after his ex-wife died of lung cancer at 29. Lopez try to show patients that the option of surgery exists and that it could give some of them a second chance at life. (…)”

The movie is available in English and Spanish.

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