TED Talks

Franz Freudenthal: A new way to heal hearts without surgery (2016x169)

Air date: Sep 09, 2016

At the intersection of medical invention and indigenous culture, pediatric cardiologist Franz Freudenthal mends holes in the hearts of children across the world, using a device born from traditional Bolivian loom weaving. "The most complex problems in our time," he says, "can be solved with simple techniques, if we are able to dream."