Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures - Season 1 - 2-DVD Set ( Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures - Season One ) ( Blood letting & Miraculous Cures )

Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures - Season 1 - 2-DVD Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures - Season One
Alternate Title: Blood letting & Miraculous Cures
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
366 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
2-DVD Set
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2010 and produced in:
Canada ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Rachel Talalay
Erik Canuel

Written By:
Vincent Lam
Jason Sherman

Actors:
Byron Mann ..... Chen (8 episodes, 2010)
Mayko Nguyen ..... Ming (8 episodes, 2010)
Shawn Ashmore ..... Fitz (8 episodes, 2010)
Kim Bubbs ..... Sharon (8 episodes, 2010)
Alison Sealy-Smith ..... Nurse Lydia (7 episodes, 2010)
Keon Mohajeri ..... Sri (6 episodes, 2010)
Joe Cobden ..... Zoltan (5 episodes, 2010)
Byron Lawson ..... Karl (4 episodes, 2010)
Richard Tse ..... Ming's Father (4 episodes, 2010)
Terra Vnesa ..... Sienna (3 episodes, 2010)
Dmitry Kazak ..... Lenny (3 episodes, 2010)
Ingrid Veninger ..... Maria (3 episodes, 2010)
Paula Rivera ..... Niki (2 episodes, 2010)
Stuart Hughes ..... Dr. Norby (2 episodes, 2010)
Marilla Wex ..... OB Nurse (2 episodes, 2010)
Stefanie Drummond ..... Admissions Nurse / ... (2 episodes, 2010)
Dan Lett ..... Jim McBride (2 episodes, 2010)
Maria del Mar ..... Dr. Miniadis (2 episodes, 2010)
Rishma Malik ..... Mrs. Singh (2 episodes, 2010)
Michael Mando ..... Dr. Manolas (2 episodes, 2010)
Stefen Rollpiller ..... Tomas Wilhelm (2 episodes, 2010)

Synopsis:

Adapted from the award-winning short stories by Vincent Lam this HBO Canada series follows the fractured love triangle that is Fitz (Shawn Ashmore - X Men) Chen (Byron Mann) and Ming (Mayko Nguyen) as they navigate the harsh realities of what it means to be a doctor in a busy city hospital. This complicated relationship plays out against a series of medical and personal stories told through multiple points of view.
Season 1
Episode 1: How to Get Ahead in Medical School
Episode 2: The Missing Years
Episode 3: Code Clock
Episode 4: Family Practice
Episode 5: Unhappy Endings
Episode 6: All Souls
Episode 7: Isolation
Episode 8: Complications

Season 1
Season 1, Episode 1: How to Get Ahead in Medical School
Original Air Date-10 January 2010
As Ming gets ready to proceed with her plans for artificial insemination, her husband Chen, is stressed and fantasizing about street races and infidelity. The sperm donor, Fitz, their medical school classmate and Ming's former boyfriend, is considering reinstatement at the hospital which stirs up a lot of unresolved issues. His return would also create more tension between the trio since he wouldn't be an absentee donor after all, but working alongside the couple every day.
Season 1, Episode 2: The Missing Years
Original Air Date-17 January 2010
Fitz and Ming talk about their imminent insemination plans. Fitz tells her that since he's decided to stay in Toronto and work at Mercy, he'll understand if she changes her mind. But she still wants to go forward even though she knows it will be uncomfortable for everyone. Their plans incite the doctors to reflect back on their early days as residents in the hospital and and the professional and romantic rivalries that took root.
Season 1, Episode 3: Code Clock
Original Air Date-24 January 2010
The present. Jealous and sensing ulterior motives in Fitz's return to Toronto, Chen confronts him with a stash of love letters he wrote to Ming. The two come to blows then reflect back on a time during their residency when they helped each other out during a Code Blue. At the ensuring peer assessment review, Fitz takes stock of his mettle as a doctor, his motives as a friend and his true feelings for Ming.
Season 1, Episode 4: Family Practice
Original Air Date-31 January 2010
As Fitz and Ming debate the merits of their insemination plans, the doctors revisit their past entanglements. Fitz finds himself challenged by the demands of a psychotic patient. Chen is called away to Brisbane to visit his dying grandfather. And Ming comes to terms with her surprise pregnancy and what it means for her future.
Season 1, Episode 5: Unhappy Endings
Original Air Date-7 February 2010
It's Christmas Eve, and chaos reigns in the emergency room. Fitz contends with some hard-assed cops and a belligerent patient. It's a contentious situation that he initially handles well, but as the evening progresses he spirals out of control to a very self-destructive place. When Chen finds himself dealing with a family of a man who died in a brothel, he starts to question his own views on medicine and family. Meanwhile, though she's not embroiled in the turmoil of the hospital, Ming is confronted by her father's strange solution to her fertility problems.
Season 1, Episode 6: All Souls
Original Air Date-14 February 2010
Fitz travels to Guatemala to rescue a man who has bleeding in the brain. However, because the bleeding is so severe, the man will not make it back to Toronto due to the cabin pressure. Meanwhile, Ming has to perform a emergency delivery when her patient's baby has its neck trapped in the umbilical cord. And Chen finally realizes that there is more to life than medicine.
Season 1, Episode 7: Isolation
Original Air Date-21 February 2010
After Fitz takes a sick patient from China to Toronto who dies later, he is diagnosed with a mysterious respiratory illness. He is immediately put into isolation, but has infected Chen who examined him. Ming is in quarantine at home where she starts to rethink again about adoption. Bearing the scars of never knowing her father, she doesn't know if she wants to make a child go through that situation again.
Season 1, Episode 8: Complications
Original Air Date-February 28, 2010
Ming finally sees her dream of being a mother come true, though the donor plans she and Chen made with Fitz undergoes some changes. Through this, Fitz learns how to love and be loved, and Chen feels confident to pursue a writing career.

Follows the lives of three young doctors fresh from medical school, and embarking on their new careers.

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 08 June, 2011.