“Of Medicine and Miracles” could have been a podcast. It could have been a newspaper feature. It could have been a book, even.
It didn’t need to be a documentary. Saying so brings me no pleasure; dumping Ross Kauffman’s latest into the same bucket as countless modern docs that don’t justify themselves as cinema feels brutish, given the subject matter.
The story of how the immunologist Carl June figured out how to train T cells to fight cancer, and how his research ultimately saved young Emily Whitehead, sentenced with a mortal leukemia diagnosis at six years old, is remarkable and moving, and worth attending even a decade after her miraculous full remission.
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