Ep. 7 | The Shadow/The Experiment
MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries
Wondery | Ballen Studios
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2023
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
“The Shadow”
When a woman’s unexplainable heart condition threatens her life, surgeons turn to a rare and dangerous operation. They have less than an hour to operate and find the cause of her condition. What they discover is jaw-dropping.
“The Experiment”
A New York City radio producer in her early 40s falls mysteriously ill after having dinner with friends. She goes to the doctor, but he can’t find anything wrong. As her symptoms worsen, she decides to take matters into her own hands and run a dangerous experiment on herself. Her discovery changes her life forever.
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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. A woman lay on an operating table with surgical drapes neatly placed around her chest. |
| 0:25.2 | She had no pulse, her heart had stopped, there was no blood flowing through her veins, and she |
| 0:29.4 | had no brain activity. |
| 0:31.4 | Medically, she was dead. But her lifeless condition had actually been induced |
| 0:36.1 | on purpose by doctors. It was part of their desperate attempt to save her. But now that she was |
| 0:41.5 | prepped, they would only have a little bit less than an hour to unravel |
| 0:45.4 | the mystery of what was wrong with her. If they couldn't figure it out in that time, then |
| 0:50.0 | she would die for real. What does it mean to be black in America? |
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| 1:20.0 | And NPR's Black Stories, Black Truths, |
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| 1:29.8 | Search NPR Black Stories Black Truth, wherever you get your podcast. Ballin Studios and Wundry, I'm Mr. Ballin, and this is Mr. Ballin's medical mysteries, |
| 1:45.5 | where every week we will explore a new baffling mystery originating from the one place we all can't |
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