
Making Rounds
Inside the Cardiac Care Unit at The Mount Sinai Hospital, cardiologists Valentin Fuster and Herschel Sklaroff spend a month on rounds with critically ill heart patients, filmed alongside the fellows, residents, and nurses working the same floor. The camera stays close to the bedside exam itself: hands on a chest, questions about symptoms, the kind of listening that predates any monitor or scan. Fuster and Sklaroff use these moments to argue for a specific idea, that physical examination and direct conversation with a patient still catch things technology misses, and that this skill is fading as medical training leans harder on imaging and lab work. The film follows real cases through diagnosis and treatment inside the unit, showing what is gained when a doctor sits down and looks and listens before ordering a test. Made with funding from the McInerney family, it doubles as an argument for training the next generation of physicians to work this way, treating the bedside encounter as a technique worth preserving rather than a step to rush through.