Kiri Pritchard-McLean dissects funny and fascinating medicine with experts and comedians.
, Kiri Pritchard-McLean assembles a panel of scientific experts and a fellow comedian and challenges them to make a case for what they think is"the best medicine". Each of them champions anything from an obscure invention to an unsung hero, or a futuristic cure.
Lucy Thurston was diagnosed with breast cancer in the 1840s and she had to have a breast amputation without anaesthetic.“Lucy Thurston was diagnosed with breast cancer in the 1840s and she had to have a breast amputation without anaesthetic.
As Sarah Kerruish, Chief Strategy Officer of Kheiron Medical Technologies puts it: “Cancer when it’s caught earlier is an entirely different disease. We’ve developed an AI algorithm called Mia that reads mammograms. It’s been trained on millions and million of images. It’s seen more images than any radiologist would see in probably ten or even a hundred lifetimes.”
Lindsey Fitzharris adds that cutting down the waiting time for mammogram results would have a huge mental health benefit: “If anything could speed that up, it gets us out of that mental prison.”The comedian Jordan Gray got breast implants as part of her gender transition. She says it affected her health positively. “You could argue it's a preventative medicine because it saves a lot of feeling sad down the line, feeling dysmorphic down the line. Although it's certainly not a cure-all.
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