Incredible Medicine: Dr Weston’s Casebook

YEAR: 2017 | LENGTH: 6 parts (~60 minutes each) | SOURCE: BBC

description:

Surgeon Gabriel Weston introduces us to people from across the globe with the world’s most unique bodies.

episodes:

01. Episode 01

Surgeon Gabriel Weston uncovers the rare and extraordinary cases that are bringing new discoveries about the human body and leading to the medical cures of the future.

This week, we meet a girl whose heart has formed outside her ribcage, a man who can spend nine minutes underwater without taking a breath, a woman who is growing a second skeleton and a paralysed man who is regaining movement thanks to a chip implanted into his brain that can ‘read’ his brain signals.

02. Episode 02

In this episode, we take a look at the human body’s amazing capacity for survival. We meet a man who injects himself with deadly snake venom, a woman who leads a normal life with only half a brain, a girl who collapses 50 times a day and the only man in the world to be completely cured of HIV.

03. Episode 03

This time, we meet a man who feels no pain, a woman who can smell Parkinson’s disease, a man who can remember every face he has ever seen and a survivor of a head injury who woke up to find he could suddenly play the piano. These remarkable cases are shedding new light on one of the most mysterious parts of the human body – our brain.

04. Episode 04

This time, we meet a girl with two hearts, a man who can sing two notes at once, a woman who can bend in amazing ways, a girl who is allergic to everything and a man who can run 350 miles without stopping. These remarkable cases reveal the secret inner workings of our bodies – the ultimate piece of natural engineering.

05. Episode 05

This time, Gabriel uncovers the stories of a man with bones as strong as granite, a woman who became pregnant with twins in two separate wombs, a girl whose arm won’t stop growing and a woman who gets lost in her own home.

06. Episode 06

Surgeon Gabriel Weston uncovers the rare and extraordinary cases that are bringing new discoveries about the human body and leading to the medical cures of the future. This week, we meet a girl whose heart has formed outside her ribcage, a man who can spend nine minutes underwater without taking a breath, a woman who is growing a second skeleton and a paralysed man who is regaining movement thanks to a chip implanted into his brain that can ‘read’ his brain signals.