Doctoring the Truth
Doctoring the Truth
Podcast Description
Welcome to Doctoring the Truth, a podcast where two dedicated audiologists dissect the world of healthcare gone rogue. Explore jaw-dropping stories of medical malfeasance, nefariousness, and shocking breaches of trust. The episodes provide deep dives that latch onto your curiosity and conscience. It's a podcast for truth-seekers craving true crime, clinical insights, and a dash of humor.
Podcast Insights
Content Themes
The show focuses on the intersection of healthcare and crime, exploring themes of medical malpractice, healthcare fraud, and ethical misconduct. Episodes delve into specific cases such as the chilling narrative of Dr. Michael Swango and Dr. Farid Fata, highlighting shocking breaches of trust within the medical profession. Additional topics include historical medical quackery, like that of John Brinkley, showcasing the allure of pseudoscience, and narratives that blend dark humor with serious commentary.
Welcome to Doctoring the Truth, a podcast where two dedicated audiologists dissect the world of healthcare gone rogue. Explore jaw-dropping stories of medical malfeasance, nefariousness, and shocking breaches of trust. The episodes provide deep dives that latch onto your curiosity and conscience. It’s a podcast for truth-seekers craving true crime, clinical insights, and a dash of humor.
A teenage girl crosses a border for a chance at life—and loses it to a mistake so basic it should have been impossible. We dive into the case of Jesica Santillán, the 17-year-old who received an incompatible heart-lung transplant, and trace how a single missed safeguard exposed cracks across donor services, hospital protocols, and communication chains. This isn’t a story about rare complications or experimental risk; it’s about the simplest check in medicine—blood type matching—and how failing it changed transplant safety nationwide.
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Resources:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/anatomy-of-a-mistake-04-09-2003/
https://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJMp030033?download=true
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25077248/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesica_Santillan
https://www.jstor.org/stable/3528375?read-now=1&seq=2#page_scan_tab_contents
https://www.wral.com/10-years-later-questions-surround-jesica-s-hope-chest-charity/12997462/
https://corporate.dukehealth.org/news/duke-releases-letter-unos-concerning-jesica-santillan
https://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/23/us/girl-in-transplant-mix-up-dies-after-two-weeks.html
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