Burden of Genius

2017

In 1967, Dr. Thomas Starzl stunned the world with the first successful liver transplantation. His breakthrough provoked controversy. Critics accused him of recklessness, even murder. Others declared it the beginning of a medical revolution. "Burden of Genius" is the story of an innovator as complex and elusive as the biological secrets he unlocked. It is also a reflection on the price of scientific progress by the man many consider the greatest surgeon of the 20th century and the father of transplantation.

James Redford
as Self – Filmmaker, Liver Transplant Patient
Larry Kramer
as Self – Writer/Activist/Liver Transplant Patient
David Crosby
as Self – Musician, Liver Transplant Patient
David McCullough
as Self – Author, Historian
Arthur Caplan
as Self – Professor of Bioethics, NYU

Burden of Genius

Acted in

James Redford

Larry Kramer

David Crosby

David McCullough

Arthur Caplan