Subtopics:

Principles of Sociology/Sickness and Wealth

This American Life presents... "Scenes from a Transplant"... An NPR reporter leaves her 3 year old son and heads to Omaha--for cancer treatment--a last chance to save her life. After years of covering stories about medicine, Rebecca Perl enters the hospital as a patient. She moves from the world of healthy people into the world of sick ones. What she sees and what she learns. This piece, which was produced by Dan Collison, received the Edward R. Murrow Award from the Radio Television News Directors Association (RTNDA) in the summer of '99. It got a perfect score, with one judge saying it was the best documentary he'd ever heard.