Mercy ― A Second Chance

Mercy is the story of one woman’s courageous decision to undergocytoreductive surgery and HIPEC, a potentially life-saving procedurethat has only recently gained widespread support in the United Statesmedical community.Her surgeon, Doctor Armando Sardi, had once been a virtuallyunknown medical student from Colombia, South America, yet hademerged as a world renowned specialist, as well as a cofounder ofhealth care services for the poor in his native country.The surgery itself is a masterwork of Dr. Paul Sugarbaker, anoncologist and former National Institutes of Health department headwith a long history of being on the cutting edge of both medical scienceand surgery.This is a candid portrayal of what it takesfor a patient to come to grips with such adecision and its aftermath.