Amazing Medical Stories
Amazing Medical Stories is a TV show on GEM. Catch up TV on Amazing Medical Stories. Watch the latest and all other episodes of Amazing Medical Stories now online, broadcast on GEM. Catch up on your favorite GEM TV show: Amazing Medical Stories. Replay tv on its best! A series of fascinating and inspiring documentary specials that explore a plethora of unusual human diseases and afflictions. The long-running program has been available since 2014. A total of 8 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in September 2014.
Last broadcast:04/09/2014 at 03:34
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The extraordinary stories of people who have survived the most shocking accidents and extreme body trauma. Using incredible video footage, x-rays, photographs and scans, this film documents how five people survived life-threatening impalement.
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This documentary looks at real, nightmarish accounts of surgical instruments that were left inside patients after surgery. This common mishap often causes wounds that will not heal and months of suffering before the error is identified and corrected.
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This documentary looks at real, nightmarish accounts of surgical instruments that were left inside patients after surgery. This common mishap often causes wounds that will not heal and months of suffering before the error is identified and corrected.
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Shiloh Pepin, the only living person to suffer from Mermaid Syndrome, is about to turn ten. As her parents announce their divorce they realise it's time for Shiloh to take a step forward in her independence.
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Shiloh Pepin suffers from one of the rarest medical conditions in the world, a condition that has only affected 4-8 children in history.
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There are up to 200 types of dwarfism in the world. One of the rarest and most extreme versions of this is known as primordial dwarfism, resulting in the smallest in proportion dwarfs. 47:14
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At just six years old, epileptic Cameron Mott was diagnosed with a rare brain disorder - Rasmussen's Encephalitisis, a disease that eats away at her brain. Her only option is to undergo hemispherectomy, one of the most dangerous major brain surgeries 48:00
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A compelling documentary focusing on seven-year-old Russian boy Jambik Hatohov, who already weighs 16 stone (102kg), the same as a baby elephant, and measures four-foot, three inches (1.4 metres) tall.