Incredible Medicine: Dr Weston's Casebook
2017 · 60m · Documentary
Surgeon Gabriel Weston introduces us to people from across the globe with the world's most unique bodies.
Episodes
1. Episode 160m · Surgeon Gabriel Weston uncovers extraordinary cases that are bringing new discoveries about the human body. This week, we meet a girl whose heart has formed outside her ribcage.
2. Episode 260m · Gabriel Weston uncovers extraordinary cases that are bringing new discoveries about the human body. In this episode, we meet a man who injects himself with deadly snake venom.
3. Episode 360m · Gabriel Weston explores extraordinary cases that are helping uncover the mysteries of the human body, including a man who feels no pain and a woman who can smell Parkinson's.
4. Episode 460m · Gabriel Weston uncovers extraordinary cases that are revealing new discoveries about the human body, including a girl with two hearts and a man who can sing two notes at once.
5. Episode 560m · Gabriel Weston uncovers extraordinary cases that are disclosing new discoveries about the human body, including a man with bones as strong as granite.
6. Episode 660m · Gabriel Weston unlocks the secrets of the human body, meeting an engineer who fixed his own heart and a toddler whose bones were repaired before he was even born.More Like This
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