Excerpt from early draft edit of 56 minute Documentary Film "Cambodia O.R." Produced by Jim Laurie. Filmed and Directed by Rob McBride. Since this draft excerpt was posted, the film has been re-edited. A longer version with a new narrator is seeking distribution. A shorter version was accepted for broadcast by the BBC and re-named 'Cambodia Operating Room., re-narrated in London. The film was first broadcast by the BBC on January 30, 2010. The film portrays a group of doctors at the Children's Surgical Centre in Phnom Penh Cambodia. The Centre is one of the only places where poor Cambodians can go to receive surgical treatment. This gritty, fly-on-the-wall, treatment features Dr. Jim Gollogly, his son Sohrab Gollogly, and Dr Ou Cheng Ngiep, a Khmer doctor who Jim describes as the best he has ever worked with. Among the cases confronting them is a young Khmer girl named Pross. Sold into prostitution, Pross has had one of her eyes gauged out after she refused what her pimp ordered.
Broadcasters wishing to acquire rights to air this gripping film should contact Jim Laurie at jim@earthfactor.org
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"CAMBODIA O.R."
Produced, written and narrated by Jim Laurie
Directed, Filmed and edited by Rob McBride
Produced and Distributed by Focus Asia Productions Limited Hong Kong January 2010
Short Synopsis:
The film is a gritty, fly-on-the-wall, profile of a small Anglo-American-Khmer surgical team trying to save lives among Cambodias poorest and most desperate in Phnom Penh.
Description:
Cambodia - During nearly four years of Khmer Rouge genocide in the late 1970s, nearly two million people died including a whole class of people, among them virtually all of the nations doctors. The countrys medical system, the education of physicians, was totally wiped out.
More than 25 years after the Khmer Rouge were pushed to the far Western reaches of Cambodia, the medical profession is still working to rebuild itself. Among those trying to assist are a handful of foreign surgeons who have made Phnom Penh their home and free care of the poorest people their lives dedication.
This film profiles the work of a fiery British born, Irish-American physician who with his brusque manners and infectious laugh has won the hearts of quiet Cambodians in desperate need of surgery.
Dr Jim Gollogly came to Cambodia, giving up an orthopaedic surgical practice in Alaska, in 1992. He set up the Children's Surgical Centre Phnom Penh. In caring for Cambodias poorest, Gollogly is joined by his son Sohrab, a surgeon from California, his Thai wife Kanya who handles the crowds of people who show up for treatment each morning, and Cambodian Doctor Ou Cheng Ngiep, who Gollogly describes as the best surgeon he has ever met.
The patients who line up for surgery are as Sohrab Gollogly puts it among the most challenging cases in the world. Among them : A teenager sold into the child sex trade, in need of a new eye after her pimp poked it out. Acid burn victims seeking not only new looks but a place to live. A young woman who has been living for many months in pain after much of her scalp had been torn away in a rice thrashing accident. A young scoliosis patient who wants only to walk straight again. And babies suffering meningoencephalocele, a birth defect in which brain tissue protrudes through the head.
The film portrays the most difficult of medical work in a totally matter-of-fact manner, just as the doctors do, day in and day out. Gritty and at times painful to watch, Cambodia O.R. offers a fascinating up close, personal, study of life in the Operating Room of Phnom Penhs only free surgical centre.
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Awwkkon jahn nga dr.jim.thank you for helping my country!
TheIsabella91126 8 months ago
THANK YOU DR. JIM GOLDLETLY FOR YOU KIND HEARTED. MAY GOD PERMIT TO HEAVEN AFTER THIS LIFE.
xamum11 10 months ago
Good work Mate There Should Be More of You In this Sad World !
hsvplayboy 1 year ago
Thank you for posting this video!
PkayMeas 2 years ago
hi! awesome! so glad to have subscribed to this : )
HouseofSiren 2 years ago