Synopsis

AMAZING MEDICAL STORIES is a reality series that follows the lives of people with rare and surprising medical afflictions, and documents the remarkable medical treatments that are used to cure them. Each episode looks at five different people whose lives are in crisis until they finally find the physician who can help them. Many are near death when the solution is found.

Stories range from unusual accidents, such as a man falling into a churning cement mixer or a woman's scalp being pulled off by a whirling gear, to one-of-a-kind conditions, including a woman with a 156-pound tumor, a baby born with four legs and a man covered in flesh eating bacteria. Each story begins as a medical mystery, gradually revealing the condition and symptoms until finally the right physician comes along to make a diagnostic breakthrough.

AMAZING MEDICAL STORIES is an inspiring celebration of the winning combination of science and human inventiveness over illness and disease.