Amazing Medical Stories
Amazing Medical Stories follows the lives of people with rare and surprising medical afflictions and documents the remarkable medical treatments that are used to cure them.
Defying The Odds
A birthmark-turned-tumor costs Ricardo his nose, but doctors plan to install a prosthetic replacement; an electrocution survivor gains a bionic arm.
Second Chances
Woman suffering chronic thromboembolic disease; twin offers to donate skin grafts for her 6-year-old sister's burn wounds.
Lives In The Balance
Jeff Cross, 28, is living on borrowed time because of a rare genetic illness that prevents the liver from breaking down a crucial protein.
The Cutting Edge
Skin grafts and an unconventional body-pouch save the life of a firefighter; regaining the use of one's legs.
Rebuilding Lives
Multiple surgeries for gunshot wounds; autoimmune disease; birth defects challenge development of a young man's legs.
New Solutions
A new procedure helps a man with Tourette's syndrome.
