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MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries

Ep. 43 | Hard Case to Crack

MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries

Wondery | Ballen Studios

True Crime

4.71.9K Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

A college student in Mississippi has to put his life on hold when his hips literally begin to die. Facing a life of unbearable pain, he must dig deep into his past to find a cure.

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Hey Prime members, you can binge episodes 41 through 48 of Mr.

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Bollin's medical mysteries right now and add free on Amazon music. Download the

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app today. On a cool fall morning, a group of boys laughed and ran around a playground in rural Mississippi.

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One boy suggested a competition to see who could jump the furthest off the swings.

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The first boy to jump soared off his swing and landed a few feet away in the sand. But as the next boy went to jump,

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the first boy's swing, which was now empty,

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came back and smacked him square in the face,

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sending the first boy flying to the ground

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with blood pouring out of his nose. The boy carefully

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reached up and touched his nose and when he did he felt it give way under his

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fingers. He shook his head. He knew his nose was broken because he had broken it before.

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As other children gathered around, the boy just sat on the ground feeling totally disheartened.

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He hated going to the hospital. He'd been there a lot. He'd broken a

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couple of his fingers a few years back and he also had dislocated his shoulder twice.

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And the boy had never forgotten what he overheard his doctor say the last time he was in the ER.

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The doctor had told his mother, your 10-year-old we are the hosts of Red-handed, a weekly true crime

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podcast. Every week on Red-handed, we get stuck into the most talked about cases.

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From the Idaho student killings, the Delphi murders and our recent rundown of the Murdoch saga.

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Last year, we also started a second weekly show, Shorthand, which is just an excuse for us to talk about anything we find interesting because it's our show and we can do what we like.

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We've covered the death of Princess Diana, an unholy Quran written in Saddam Hussein's blood, the gruesome history of European witch hunting,

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and the very uncomfortable phenomenon of genetic sexual attraction.

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Whatever the case, we want to know what pushes people to the extremes of human behavior.

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