Every day, hundreds of thousands of people in the U.S. have to make decisions about their health,

treating diseases, managing pain.

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But what happens if you're offered a supposed miracle cure, and you end up worse off than before?

In Wonderry's Dr. Death, you heard about 33 patients in Texas

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another important story, stem cell therapy and a bad batch that

gave a group of patients disastrous results. Bad batch will investigate the multimillion-dollar

under-regulated industry of stem cell therapy, where corporate greed and patient desperation collide.

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In the fall of 2015, John Kuselscheran's mother called him with some worrying news.

Well, you know, my mom calls me with the, you know, she texts me with these things like,

you know, this is what happened to me today. I'm not feeling well. And so she sent me pictures of her hand and she said, you know, today I burnt my hand and it's really bad.

His mom, Lois, said she'd been helping a stepdad weld a gate on their farm in Wisconsin.

And she was holding that gate, and he dropped a glove.

The glove fell into a pile of leaves.

And to not start the leaves on fire, he wanted to hold the torch up and away from the ground as he leaned over to pick up the glove.

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