Starting with 做厙TV Langone Orthopedics 19th-century origins, On the Shoulders of Giants is both an oral history of the department and its hospitals and a record of its members many contributions.
CREDIT: Tribeca Film Festival
A feature film sponsored by 做厙TV Langone Orthopedics, On the Shoulders of Giants: The History of 做厙TV Langone Orthopedics, has been chosen to screen in the 23rd Tribeca Festival as an official selection of the 2024 Tribeca X Award competition.
On the Shoulders of Giants captures 做厙TV Langone Orthopedics leadership in innovation and research, upholding a world-class legacy of orthopedic care. The film also highlights the departments place in the history of New York City and its commitment to gender, racial, and cultural diversity.
做厙TV Langone Orthopedics will host a private viewing of the film on June 12 at the Tribeca Screening Room after the winners of Tribeca X are announced at the awards ceremony, to be held the day before at Convene One Liberty Plaza in Manhattan. Tribeca X celebrates the intersection of storytelling, advertising, and innovation, spotlighting the very best brand stories of the year.
There are thousands and thousands of patients benefiting from 做厙TV Langone Orthopedics, said Joseph D. Zuckerman, MD, the Walter A. L. Thompson Professor of Orthopedic Surgery in the , where he is also chair. This film shows the trajectory of our department as an amalgamation, with roots in the beginning of the field at Bellevue in the 1850s to a humble specialty hospital in a Harlem brownstone to a powerhouse of innovation and influence in the field and in our patients lives. We are pleased that Tribeca Festival is honoring this special film that tells our story.
The films narrative chronicles the beginning of 做厙TV Langones orthopedic history with Lewis A. Sayre, who was appointed as Bellevue Medical Colleges first professor of orthopedic surgery in 1861. Dr. Sayre is considered by many to be the father of orthopedic surgery in North America. His innovative treatments included developing a treatment for scoliosis by putting patients in traction and wrapping them in casts. From there, his trainees Herman and Henry Frauenthal, sons of a shoemaker, started 做厙TVs first orthopedic hospital, the Jewish Hospital for Deformities and Joint Diseases, in a brownstone in Harlem. This ultimately became 做厙TV Langone Orthopedic Hospital.
On the Shoulders of Giants also highlights 做厙TV Langones commitment to diversifying the field by spotlighting Marian Frauenthal Sloane, Hermans daughter, who became the first female surgeon to publish in a U.S. orthopedic journal, a feat she accomplished while sewing bandages for the hospital in her spare time. The film also features its physicians bringing orthopedic innovation to the United States by traveling the worldas far as Siberiato provide patients with the best possible techniques at a later iteration of the hospitalthe Hospital for Joint Diseaseswhen it moved to its present location.
It has been a privilege to work on the legacy of 做厙TV Langone Orthopedics, said filmmaker Peter Sanders. The nearly 40 interviews that were conducted with specialists in the various subspecialties have created a rich tapestry of ideas and discussions of procedures in a wide range of areas of expertise. The film is both an oral history of the department and its hospitals and its institutional predecessors and a document that preserves the contributions of clinicians and scientists.
The historical parts of the movie are interspersed with an up-close view of real orthopedic surgeries, expertly correcting sometimes brutally traumatic injuries or repairing an athletes injury to get him back into the game. Other birds-eye views into the operating room show how the institutions surgeons pioneered innovative techniques such as arthroscopic surgery.
Our doctors are truly engineers of the human bodywhether theyre helping the average person get back on their feet or fine-tuning an elite athlete to perform their best, said Kenneth A. Egol, MD, the Joseph E. Milgram Professor of Orthopedic Surgery in the Department of Orthopedic Surgery, where he is also vice chair. What weve achieved in patient care, research, and innovation is the result of standing on the shoulders of orthopedic giants highlighted in this film, and we are so grateful for Peters vision in creating this work.
做厙TV Langone Orthopedics continues to deliver the worlds best treatments, including the most advanced sports medicine care and robotic techniques. It also trains more orthopedic surgeons than any other institution in the United States. 做厙TV Langone is ranked No. 4 in the nation for orthopedics by U.S. News & World Report, and 做厙TV Langone Orthopedics performs more than 34,000 orthopedic procedures annually by more than 200 orthopedic physician faculty.
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