Ep. 4 | Sanju’s Belly/One by One

MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries

Wondery | Ballen Studios

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4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

“Sanju’s Belly”

For decades, a 36-year-old Indian man has been plagued by a mysterious swelling in his belly. He refuses to see a doctor, until one day, he’s rushed to the hospital with breathing problems. When doctors operate, what they find inside him is horrific.

“One by One”

A family in 1860s London is struck by a mysterious illness that claims three of their children. When the city’s finest physician is brought in to treat the family's last surviving child, a three-year-old girl, he is baffled by her symptoms. But as he digs deeper he realizes the true killer has been staring him in the face all along.

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0:00.0	Hey Prime members, you can binge episode 17 through 24 of Mr.
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0:09.4	Download the app today. In June of 1999, a surgeon in Mumbai India stood in his operating room feeling totally shocked.
0:25.7	The patient lying on the operating table in front of him had a condition that was so horrifying
0:31.1	the surgeon could barely process what he was looking at.
0:35.0	But after a moment of stunned silence, the surgeon shook his head and refocused.
0:40.0	He needed to act quickly if this patient was going to have any chance at survival.
0:45.0	So the surgeon took a deep breath and then reached his hand into the incision he'd already made in the patient's stomach.
0:52.0	He felt around inside for a moment and eventually
0:55.8	his hand came in contact with something that should not have been there. It was
1:00.7	large and solid and felt totally alien and the surgeon just grabbed it as hard as he could and began to pull. What does it mean to be black in America? An NPR's black stories,
1:20.8	black truths, a collection of stories as very nuanced and dynamic as Black experiences.
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1:35.0	What does it mean to be Black in America?
1:39.0	An NPR's Black Stories, Black Truths,
1:41.0	a collection of stories as very nuanced and dynamic as black
1:44.4	experiences you'll hear it means everything search mPR black stories black truths
1:50.8	wherever you get your podcast. I'm Mr. Ballin and this is Mr. Ballin's medical mysteries where every week we will explore
2:06.2	a new baffling mystery originating from the one place we all can't escape.
2:11.6	Our own bodies. If you like today's stories, please invite the
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