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Circulatory system of a human arm

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Baby Hand Bones

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This is your head...well, maybe just your head’s blood vessels....

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This is a T Cell killing a Cancer cell.

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It’s one thing to memorize all the parts...it’s quite another to see it all work together....

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Mitosis - Cell Division

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Happy Valentines Day

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List of Medical Documentaries

History of Medicine Ancient Egypt: Medicine and History (History Channel, “Where Did it Come From?) Forbidden Knowledge: Ancient Medical Secrets (Discovery) Getting Better: 200 Years of Medicine (New England Journal of Medicine) Human Anatomy and Medicine (Discovery) Lost Tomb of Imhotep (Ancient Egypt Documentary)

Antibiotics/Antivirals Frontline: The Trouble with Antibiotics (PBS) Rise of the Superbugs (Dailymotion) Origin of AIDS: The Polio Vaccine (CBC: Witness)

Business of Medicine The Business of Being Born (Barranca Productions)

Disease/Infection Siddhartha Mukherjee - The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, Lecture (Harvard Book Store) Pain, Pus and Poison - Pus, The Search for Modern Medicine (BBC; @medicine-nerd)

Global Medical Missions Médicins sans Frontières: From Action to Words (MSF) Living in Emergency: Stories of Doctors without Borders (MSF Australia)

Health Care Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare (Lionsgate; @stayingmedicallyinspired)

Human Behavior Pleasure and Pain Documentary with Michael Mosley (BBC)

Pioneering Physicians Present and Unaccounted for: Black Women in Medicine (URU, The Right to Be, Inc.)

Pharmacology Pain, Pus and Poison - Pain, The Search for Modern Medicine (BBC; @medicine-nerd)

Medical Dramas Boston Med, Season 1 (ABC) Emergency Room: Life + Death at Vancouver General Hospital (Knowledge Network) Hopkins (ABC) NY Med, Season 1 (ABC) NY Med, Season 2 Episode 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 (ABC)

Medical Education Doctors’ Diaries: Part 1 and Part 2 (PBS NOVA) “I am a Medical Student” - The Motivations and Interests of 5 Future Physicians (Mauch Scott)

Research Science Documentary: Stem Cells (UCL)

Surgery & Surgical Procedures Surgery’s Dirty Secrets (BBC) The Lobotomist, Walter J. Freeman: Part 1 and Part 2 (PBS) Extracting a Deadly Brain Tumor (University of Miami School of Medicine; @medicine-nerd) The Human Face (BBC)

Toxicology Pain, Pus and Poison - Poison, The Search for Modern Medicine (BBC) The Venom Cure (PBS; @medicine-nerd)

War & Medicine Nuremberg: Nazis on Trial (Parts 1-3) (BBC) Battlefield Medicine (History Channel) Modern Marvels: Battlefield Medicine (History Channel) Surgeons at War: Combat Surgery in World War II (Unknown) Frontline Medicine (BBC)

Please note: This list is updated regularly. If you have any documentary suggestions, please share!

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This is your lungs on a table...with some compressed air.

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Here is your blood vessels on a table.

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Here, the moment of ovulation was accidentally witnessed during a robotic surgery. Previously, ovulation was thought to be a sudden pop but this actually took place over fifteen minutes. Pretty dang cool.

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wow.

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How pregnancy shifts and moves the mother’s internal organs to make room for the baby. Interactive Flash source here.

Like this? You might also be interested in viewing a cross section of the human body from top to bottom.

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For those who forget how to talk to the doctor!

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Very handy little chart :)

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Master Your Muscles: How To Optimise Your Workout http://daily-infographic.tumblr.com/