General Education Film Series presents "The English Surgeon"

The English Surgeon, an award-winning documentary about a neurosurgeon's generous charity work in Ukraine amid appalling medical conditions, will be shown Wednesday, Feb. 15, at 7 p.m. in the Longwood Center for the Visual Arts (lower level). This is part of the General Education Film Series. "Shot in a Ukrainian hospital full of desperate patients and makeshift equipment, The English Surgeon is an intimate portrayal of brain surgeon Henry Marsh as he wrestles with the dilemmas of the doctor patient relationship." The New York Times has called the 2009 film "enthralling, astonishing...agonizingly human."