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Medical Mavericks (2006)
 
60'
Discovery Channel
Director: Jeremy Turner, Tim Lambert
Producer: Jeremy Taylor
Executive Producer: Denman Rooke
 
 

Imagine a world without death or disease… Where the human body could be serviced and repaired like a machine, and new parts built from scratch. It's a world of artificial organs and bionic implants; a world of cyborgs

At the moment this is still the stuff of science fiction. But it could be the future of medicine – and sooner than we realize, and we are witnessing a revolution in medical science. And in the vanguard of this revolution are medical mavericks – people willing to be implanted, modified and re-wired; people willing to transform their bodies in the name of science.


 
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