Healing States · Episode 03

Psychic Surgeon, M.D.

Dr. Edson Quieroz, a Brazilian medical doctor, performs conventional surgery three days per week. The remainder of the week, he performs psychic operations with a dirty surgical scalpel on dozens of patients who cannot afford hospital care. Dr. Edson claims that it is not him, but the spirit of Dr. Adolph Fritz, a German medical doctor who died in World War I who performs the actual operations without the use of anaesthesia, or sutures. Our team of researchers visits the new surgeon of the rusty knife.

Directed by Angelika Lizius / Alberto Villoldo