Miracle Workers is an American reality television show that aired for one season produced by Jim Hunziker and Gary Shaffer for ABC in 2006.

Redmond Burke and Billy Cohn along with nurses Janna Bullock and Tamara Houston as they interact with and perform the treatment on different patients every episode.

This resulted in a successful surgery which straightened out the curved spine and prevented Adrian's left lung from being crushed the pressure being exerted by his ribs.

Benoit consented to the treatment after other procedures were deemed ineffective, such as a heart transplant not being an option due to the fact that the patient recently had breast cancer.

[2] Advocacy organization Common Sense Media rated it 4/5, finding that surgical scenes and medical jargon might be unsuitable for small children, while calling it "heart-warming".

[7] Intersect mentions how medical reality TV programs have raised awareness of unfamiliar illnesses among the greater community who may have not known the conditions or the impact of them on patients’ lives.

[9] “Miracle Workers” has been at the centre of controversy for a variety of reasons, for seemingly supporting ableist culture, commodifying illnesses and the use of methods which are underdeveloped and not necessarily guaranteed to be safe.

[2] Intersect further adds how U.S. medical reality tv shows like “Miracle Workers” Commodify illness by exposing a vulnerability of someone to the general public for the sake of entertainment and profit.

[4] British Medical Journal adds that although the treatments and procedures used in the show are approved, some of these methods might not be covered under US health insurance companies due to how new and experimental they are.

[4] The beneficial effects of the treatments carried out on Miracle Workers along with the solution of the illnesses the patients suffer from are shown at the end of each episode.

Priscilla Benoit who appeared on episode 5 of the series, passed away at age 56 at the Texas Heart Institute, which is a part of Luke's Episcopal Hospital in Houston after suffering from numerous side effects such as a stroke, pneumonia, sepsis and brain haemorrhage.