-Welcome to the show. -Thank you, thank you.
-It is an honor to have you here.
-Other way around. Thank you.
-So, this is about the Mayo Clinic.
An incredibly innovative hospital here
in the United States, and yet it is only two hours.
And based on all the work you've done,
does two hours seem super short to you?
-Super short to cover 150 years of history
of the greatest hospital on Earth.
It's a wonderful story.
It's the kind of story we need right now.
-Yes, absolutely. 100%.
[ Cheers and applause ]
It was just named the best hospital in the U.S.
-Which means the world. -The world, yes.
You see, you're such a -- You're just like Trump.
[ Laughter ]
But you -- It's very improbable
that Mayo Clinic would become the best hospital in the world.
How did this -- Explain how this came to be.
-Its origin story you couldn't sell to a Hollywood producer.
Big tornado in 1883.
The Mayo -- W.W. Mayo and his two young sons --
have one of the few practices in Olmsted County,
where Rochester, Minnesota, is, on the edge of the frontier.
They asked Mother Alfred of the sisters of St. Francis
to put up some of the wounded.
She comes back and said, "I just had a vision from God
that I'm to build you a hospital.
You will be the chief surgeon.
And it will become known for its medical arts."
And he kind of goes, "Yeah, right.
Do you know what it takes to build a hospital?"
And she said, "But if we do build it,
you will be the chief surgeon."
He goes, "Sure. It's not gonna happen."
They shake on it.
And 150 years later, those nuns and, more importantly,
their Franciscan values are informing
what's going on at the world's greatest hospital,
which is also doing the science right
and engineering all of that, so that --
You know what it's like -- you go in to do a blood test,
and a week later, you got the results.
You do a blood test at the Mayo, and an hour and a half,
two hours later, you've got the results.
And they've been saving people's lives.
And the film is just filled with
just extraordinary miracles that you couldn't
sort of believe could happen
along with this great story of how it came to be.
-One of those stories, which I want to ask you about --
there was a violinist who was having a tremor, yes?
I mean, simply -- -A guy from Minnesota.
And he has a tremor, and he realizes,
"This is the end," and the doctors are giving him drugs.
He goes to 15 different doctors.
He finally ends up at the Mayo Clinic,
and he meets a doctor -- Dr. Kendall Lee --
and he said, "Well, I've been doing some research
in deep brain stimulation.
I'd like to draw -- you know, drill a hole in your head."
He goes, "No one is drilling a hole in my head."
But then, as it gets worse and worse he says, "Maybe okay."
And so, the unbelievable thing is,
we get to film the operation
where he's fully conscious and has to be
because they need him to play the violin during the operation.
-For anybody who thinks Ken is making that up, take a look.
♪♪
-Okay, very clearly, that's a tremor.
-Dr. Lee inserted the first lead,
and I started to play.
♪♪
And the tremor was much better.
-I mean, that's insane. -It's insane.
And there's -- It's just filled with stories.
You know, we interviewed John McCain,
who they were caring for him at the end,
at their Scottsdale, Arizona, campus.
And he looks -- you know, giving me an interview,
and he looks in my eye, and he says,
"You know, they gave me help, they told me the odds,
they helped me the best they could,
and they prepared me for what lies ahead."
And there's a twinkle in his eye,
and you just go, "Oh, that's where he is now,"
and helping us today as much in death as he did in life.
It's an amazing, amazing place.
And I went as a patient to get an annual checkup
and just could not believe it and got curious
and started asking questions about it
and started, you know, making a film.
-I feel like anywhere you walk in,
people have to be careful, because if you get curious,
you're gonna make a documentary. [ Laughter ]
-Well, you know, it's interesting.
I told the Mayo Clinic, you know, "Look, it's PBS.
This is church and state.
You cannot in any way influence this,
but we want access to your -- all your operating rooms.
We need access to your surgeons and your doctors
and to your patients," you know?
"And what if we find out something bad?
We're not gonna hold it back," you know?
And they said the right thing.
The head of it, Dr. John Noseworthy.
which is a perfect name for a surgeon...
-[ Laughing ] Yeah, that's great.
-...he says, "Well, if you found something wrong,
we'd have to correct it."
And I just thought, "Okay, we can work together."
And so, over 3 1/2 years, our team,
including my co-director, Erik Ewers and Chris Ewers,
went in, and we were just able to bring back, I think, gold.
And it is something.
You know, we have a screwed-up healthcare system right now,
and this is not a political film.
It's not saying, "Single-payer this,"
or "You're right or they're wrong."
It's saying, what's in front of us
is an amazing example of what works.
And why don't we just put the head of the Mayo Clinic
and a few other smart people in a room,
and we all agree, Republican or Democrat or Independent,
that we'll just do whatever they say
when they get out of this room
and that we'll finally have the healthcare that we deserve?
-That's fantastic. -It's so good, it's so good.
[ Cheers and applause ] -Were you worried --
Were you worried that if you found something bad,
they would drill a hole in your head and take the brain out?
[ Laughter ]
The part of the brain that saw it?
-I stayed far away from that.
-So, you obviously have done,
you know, the history of baseball,
the history of Vietnam,
these sprawling documentaries about very different topics.
Your first film, though, was not --
If we saw it, we would be very surprised where you ended up.
-That's exactly right.
I made a film, called "Brooklyn Bridge,"
about the story of the building of the Brooklyn Bridge
and then its life for a century afterwards
as a kind of symbol in American culture
of strength, vitality, ingenuity, and promise.
I walk over it 15, 20 times a year.
It's one of the great experiences,
like standing on the rim of the Grand Canyon.
And we've now just been able to go back --
We shot it in 16-millimeter,
meaning the size of the frame is the size of my thumbnail,
and restore, frame by frame, every single image
from that hour-long documentary
in 4K Ultra HD, whatever that means, and...
[ Light laughter ]
...we're having a screening in Roebling, New Jersey,
on Saturday night, where --
Roebling is the name of the guy who built the Brooklyn Bridge --
at a theater there.
But we've put it on this great digital platform
that we have with PBS, at pbs.org/me/unum.
You know, because there's too much pluribus
and not enough unum today. -There you go.
-That's what the historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. said.
And I realized when he said that in the '80s,
I go, "Wow. I'm about unum."
I'm interested in the things that we share in common,
not the things that divide us,
the stories that we can share
and telling and enlarging those stories.
So it isn't just, you know, the North and the South.
You're adding women, you're adding people at home,
you're adding African-Americans and all that,
and tell a Civil War story
that actually has resonance for everybody.
And we've done that with all the films.
I think we've done it in "Mayo."
We did it in "Brooklyn Bridge," and so we're really thrilled.
You can find it there, and it looks terrific.
-Well, thank you so much for being here.
-My pleasure. -It's such a pleasure.
It's always great to speak to you.
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