Catch the Baby

Charismatic obstetrician and cowboy Dr. Bert Johnson explores the dramatic evolution of medical technology over the past 50 years.

Directors: Katie Cadigan, Laura Murray
Producers: Ruth Ann Crystal, Katie Cadigan

Release Date
January 1, 2009

Catch the Baby is the story of the dramatic evolution of medical training and technology in the past fifty years – told through the lens of obstetrics, the ultimate life and death discipline. Dr. Bert Johnson’s recollections of delivering babies on kitchen tables in a 1950s Chicago slums lie in sharp contrast to his new students’ experiences practicing with high-tech modern marvels.

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