Doctoring the Truth
by Jenne Tunnell and Amanda House
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Ep 86-The Brooklyn Bone Snatcher: Michael Mastromarino
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About this podcast
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.
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- Ep 86-The Brooklyn Bone Snatcher: Michael Mastromarino · 1 h 7 min · Season 2 Episode 86Send us Fan Mail A digital camera at a fall orchard somehow turns into the perfect warm-up for a colder truth: modern “body snatching” can come with contracts, invoices, and a…
- Ep 85-Nellie Bly And The Asylum Exposé That Forced Reform · 1 h 10 min · Season 2 Episode 85Send us Fan Mail A sane woman says she’s sane and nobody believes her. That’s the chilling hinge point in Nellie Bly’s story, and it’s why her reporting still lands like a…
- Ep 84-Haunted Hospital: Norman Baker's Fake Cancer Cures · 1 h 6 min · Season 2 Episode 84Send us Fan Mail A haunted hotel is scary, but a fake cancer hospital is worse. We’re taking you to the Crescent Hotel in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, a stunning limestone landmark…
- Ep 83-Resuscitation Rambo: The Horrific Actions of Nurse Niels Hogel · 60 min · Season 2 Episode 83Send us Fan Mail A cardiac ICU is built on a simple bargain: patients can’t verify anything, so they have to trust everyone. That’s why the case of Niels Hogel hits so hard. We…
- Ep 82-Mesmer's Magic Tub, Mozart's Armonica Envy, and Ben Franklin's Dinner Disaster: Old Timey Medicine at it's Fanciest · 1 h 8 min · Season 2 Episode 82Send us Fan Mail A doctor in a lilac silk robe, a wooden tub packed with iron rods, patients linked together in a room with music, and “healing crises” that look like fainting…
- Ep 81-When Prescriptions Become A Weapon: Dr. Craig A. Spiegel · 1 h 9 min · Season 2 Episode 81Send us Fan Mail A tire pressure alert leads to a nail in the tread, and a split second label check stops an anaphylaxis scare and then the tone shifts hard. We’re talking about…
- Ep 80-What Little We Know About Post Partum Psychosis: Otty Sanchez and Lindsay Clancy (Part 3) · 1 h 11 min · Season 2 Episode 80Send us Fan Mail A mother can be terrified, begging for help, and still be sent home. A mother can look organised on a video visit and still be collapsing behind the scenes. This…
- Ep 79-What Little We Know About Post Partum Psychosis: Dena Schlosser (Part 2) · 1 h 4 min · Season 2 Episode 79Send us Fan Mail A calm voice, religious music in the background, and a confession that makes no emotional sense unless you understand psychosis. We trace the Dena Schlosser case…
- Ep 78-What Little We Know About Post Partum Psychosis: Andrea Yates (Part 1) · 1 h 6 min · Season 2 Episode 78Send us Fan Mail A mother who just gave birth can look “fine” in a short conversation and still be slipping into a psychiatric emergency by nightfall. That gap between what…
- Ep 77-The House Of Horrors Clinic: Dr. Kermit Gosnell · 1 h 9 min · Season 2 Episode 77Send us Fan Mail A clinic door can feel like safety, especially when you’re scared, short on money, and out of options. But what happens when the “respectable” name on the sign…
- Ep 76-Nonconsensual Studies: Dr. Halikas and Marginalization of a Hmong Community · 1 h 10 min · Season 2 Episode 76Send us Fan Mail A patient walks into a hospital for help with opioid withdrawal, accepts a medication offered by a doctor, and later learns that dose was part of an experiment…
- Ep 75-In the Trenches with Marybeth: Near Death By Boxcutter · 25 min · Season 2 Episode 75Send us Fan Mail He walks into triage at 3 AM with his girlfriend, dressed for a night out, calm as can be, and says he just needs stitches. Then we lift the paper towel and see…
- Ep 74-The Surgeon Who Fooled The World: Paolo Macchiarini (Part 2) · 1 h 11 min · Season 2 Episode 74Send us Fan Mail A surgeon can save your life, but a story can steal your judgment. We pick up the Paolo Macchiarini saga with the part that sounds too wild to be true: an…
- Ep 73-The Killer Surgeon with a Plastic Windpipe: Paolo Macchiarini (Part 1) · 1 h 2 min · Season 2 Episode 73Send us Fan Mail A plastic windpipe. A world-famous surgeon. One of the most prestigious medical institutions on earth. What could possibly go wrong when hope, headlines, and…
- Ep 72-Guinea-Pigging Geezer: An Unethical U of M Psychiatrist · 1 h 7 min · Season 2 Episode 72Send us Fan Mail A psychiatrist with a résumé full of prestige gets ordered to sit in on a medical ethics class. That single detail sent us down one of the most unsettling…
- Ep 71-Fentanyl On The Night Shift · 1 h 13 min · Season 2 Episode 71Send us Fan Mail A single syringe can hold a hard truth: in an ICU, the difference between mercy and harm can come down to dose, intent, and whether anyone has the power to stop…
- Ep 70-The Essential Oil Myth Machine: D Gary Young · 1 h 3 min · Season 2 Episode 70Send us Fan Mail A tiny bottle can carry a huge promise, especially when it is wrapped in “natural” language, a charismatic founder story, and a sales network that feels like…
- Ep 69-Genital Mutilation Disguised as Love Surgery · 1 h 7 min · Season 2 Episode 69Send us Fan Mail A surgeon tells you everything went fine then you spend years in pain, ashamed, and confused because the truth never made it into your chart. We dig into the…
- Ep 68-The Church of Bleach · 58 min · Season 2 Episode 68Send us Fan Mail A “miracle cure” gets whispered about at an autism conference, and the rabbit hole opens fast. We follow the bizarre rise of Miracle Mineral Solution (MMS), a…
- Ep 67-In the Trenches with Marybeth: Keep Your Wits · 32 min · Season 2 Episode 67Send us Fan Mail A masked team storms the classroom, guns drawn, and within seconds everyone is zip tied, hooded, and ordered face-first to a wall. It’s “only” training, but your…
