Medical Mavericks (Documentary, English)
Genres: Medical
Status: Ended
Premiered: 2007-03-31
Ended: 2007-04-21
Network: BBC Four
Country: GB
Airs on: Saturday
Air time: 20:30
Runtime: 60 minutes
Animals and lab tests can only take you so far - in the end you have to experiment on people. But who would want to go first? Award-winning journalist and former doctor Michael Mosley exposes the curious, gruesome and sometimes fatal ways in which scientists have transformed medical knowledge by using themselves as guinea pigs.