Health care is the third largest industry in the US. As a result of billions of dollars spent for medical education in the 1960s, there are now too many specialists and too few primary care physicians, especially in underserved areas. NOVA tells the story of one medical school in Israel that is training a new kind of family doctor.
Aired: Jan 4, 1979 On the morning of March 16, 1978, the US owned, Liberian registered supertank...
Aired: Jan 11, 1979 As a child, Fred Young hunted birds and wild animals with primitive weapons, ...
Aired: Jan 18, 1979 In 1945, B.F. Skinner shocked the world by putting his 13 month-old daughter,...
Aired: Feb 1, 1979 The bed of the northeast Pacific Ocean is covered with a "carpet" estimated t...
Aired: Feb 8, 1979 Below the snow-capped peaks of the Peruvian Andes, the Q'eros Indians live a ...
Aired: Feb 22, 1979 Explores the uses of hydrogen as a possible fuel source.
Aired: Mar 1, 1979 Is nuclear fusion the solution to the energy crisis? NOVA examines the promis...
Aired: Mar 8, 1979 Health care is the third largest industry in the US. As a result of billions ...
Aired: Mar 15, 1979 One hundred years after his birth, Albert Einstein remains an enigma to most ...
Aired: Mar 29, 1979 Some powerful and complex painkilling drugs have just been discovered—in a pl...
Aired: Oct 2, 1979 Is the chemical industry a boom to modern civilization, or a major threat to ...
Aired: Oct 9, 1979 Sinister, sometimes even deadly, spiders have little popular appeal; yet thei...
Aired: Oct 16, 1979 NOVA views the history of sugar—from its scientific, religious and political ...
Aired: Oct 30, 1979 At the 1976 Olympics, East German athletes walked off with 40 of the coveted ...
Aired: Nov 6, 1979 Nova examines sports injuries and the science of sports medicine.
Aired: Nov 20, 1979 Most of India lives by the same rhythm, the same tools, as in centuries past....
17. The Bridge That Spanned the World
Aired: Dec 4, 1979The Iron Bridge across the River Severn in Telford, England is two centuries ...
Aired: Dec 11, 1979 Dr. Philip Morrison, Institute Professor and professor of Physics at Massachu...
19. Blindness: Five Points of Views
Aired: Dec 18, 1979For many people the idea of life without vision is as fearful as death. NOVA ...
