7 Best Medical Documentaries on Amazon Prime

You don’t have to be into medicine to enjoy any of the items on our list of the 7 best medical documentaries on Amazon Prime. It is a fascinating science that has a great effect on our lives and it is always good to know more about it.

Now, medicine and the way it is practiced have changed over time, but it always had the same goal in mind. That goal is to make people healthier and help them overcome diseases. Although today we have the most advanced medical knowledge ever, it looks like we appreciate medicine less. This is mostly because of the current system that doesn’t give people what they need. For me, medical care shouldn’t be a privilege, but a right of every human. Unfortunately, quality medical care is starting to become harder to obtain for common people. Also, the medical system is filled with flaws. Lots of documentary movies are examining this question and some of them are featured on our list.

One more thing that is causing people to distrust medicine is the false information they are receiving. Take vaccinations for example and the fact that many people think they cause autism. There hasn’t been any scientific evidence for these claims, or any proof, but people still somehow choose to believe it. Then there are conspiracy theories that claim pharmaceutical companies are hiding the cures for diseases in order to profit. Also, there are more people who are turning to alternative methods of treating diseases because they have lost faith in contemporary medicine. The problem is that many of those methods are not efficient and people just end up in worse shape, to the point that even conventional medicine can no longer help them. If you like to base your opinions on science and real evidence, make sure you check out our list of the 10 Best Science Documentaries on Amazon Prime. Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN)‘s streaming video service is now available in more than 200 countries, though we can’t vouch for the selection of documentaries on the service outside of the U.S.

To get our list of the 7 best medical documentaries on Amazon Prime, we searched through documentary titles that are available to stream for Amazon Prime subscribers and identified titles that are related to medicine. We then ranked those titles based on their Amazon Rating and the number of users that rated them (those with 5 or fewer ratings did not qualify). The results are compiled in the following list, which begins on the next page.

7. Autopsy 7: Dead Man Talking

Amazon Rating: 4.5
Number of Ratings: 61

This is just like that TV show Bones but in real life. Dr. Michael Baden will guide you through the process of finding out more about dead bodies and show you the secrets they can reveal. This documentary is part of a larger series titled Autopsy, so you can check out other entries on Amazon Prime as well.

6. Without a Scalpel

Amazon Rating: 4.6
Number of Ratings: 37

This documentary will show you how advanced technology is helping medicine. Three people were faced with life-threatening conditions that could only be solved with surgery. Or that is what they thought, until the team of doctors found alternatives that could do the same effect without the need for scalpels or stitches.

5. Forgotten Plague

Amazon Rating: 4.6
Number of Ratings: 89

Although you rarely hear people talk about Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, around one million people in the United States are diagnosed with it. One of those one million is journalist Ryan Prior, who got fed up with everybody ignoring the disease and decided to do something about it. In this documentary, he explores the disease, talks with the people who share his condition and examines the way the medical system in the United States is treating those who have it.

4. The God Cells: A Fetal Stem Cell Journey

Amazon Rating: 5
Number of Ratings: 11

We have already talked about this documentary on one of our previous lists, but it found its place on our list of the 7 best medical documentaries on Amazon Prime as well. The main topic of the documentary is fetal stem cells and their possible treatments. Research into the efficiency of such treatments is picking up the pace in the last decade, and the results are more than promising. But there are many challenges ahead before this potentially groundbreaking discovery can be used.

3. Ride with Larry

Amazon Rating: 4.8
Number of Ratings: 50

Unfortunately, although medicine is progressing, for some diseases a cure is still to be found. This documentary that ranks 3rd in our list of best medical documentaries on Amazon Prime, follows Larry Smith, who has spent the last 20 years of his life fighting Parkinson’s disease. When nothing helped, his last resort was to start exercising and using medical marijuana. This practice proved successful for Larry, who then decided to show others with the same condition that there is hope, by going on a 300-mile bicycle trip.

2. Burzynski: Cancer Cure Cover Up

Amazon Rating: 4.7    
Number of Ratings: 201

Although I am reluctant to put this documentary on our list of best medical documentaries on Amazon Prime, I still have to stay true to the methodology. It is medical-related and it has the second-best average rating. The documentary revolves around Dr. Burzynski and his claims about a miraculous treatment that cures cancer. Although the documentary is filled with positive testimonies, there is no scientific proof that the treatment works and Dr. Burzynski charges a hefty sum of money for each treatment. I gave you the facts and the rest is up to you.

1. Under Our Skin

Amazon Rating: 4.8    
Number of Ratings: 389

We have come to the end of our list of the  best medical documentaries on Amazon Prime. Lyme disease is a challenging one due to the difficulty of diagnosing it properly. The symptoms are very broad and the patient doesn’t have to have all of them to have the disease. Likewise, two patients suffering from it may have different symptoms. More than 300,000 people are diagnosed with the disease each year in the United States. This documentary explores the premise that there is a hidden Lyme disease epidemic in the United States and that the nation’s medical system is failing to treat it adequately.

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