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Medical Mysteries: From the Bizarre to the Deadly . . . The Cases That Have Baffled Doctors

Medical Mysteries takes you to the front lines of the medical fringe, where absolutely anything is possible From the files of the hit ABC primetime show Medical Mysteries comes this impossible-to-put-down collection of the strangest medical stories you are ever likely to hear. Learn about the man who seems to be turning into a tree; the woman who's seasick?on land; the little girl who was born with all her organs reversed; and the musician who can hear everything inside his body?even his eyeballs moving back and forth in their sockets.. Put yourself in the examination room as doctors uncover and try to cure the most bizarre of medical conditions.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 240 pages

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