Doctoring the Truth

Doctoring the Truth

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  • Ep 46-Don't Die: Bryan Johnson and Longevity Science

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    A cookie-fueled cold open gives way to one of the thorniest questions in modern medicine: are we getting healthier, or just better at making numbers look good? Using Brian Johnson’s “Blueprint” as a case study, we unpack the science behind epigenetic clocks, the appeal of tight control, and the lesson medicine keeps relearning—lowering a risky marker isn’t the same as improving a life. We trace hard-won examples from ICU glucose control to HRT and anti-arrhythmics, then map that history onto today’s longevity culture, where proxies move fast and outcomes arrive slow.

    Enjoy the ride, laugh at the holiday detours, and leave with a pragmatic checklist: sleep on purpose, move daily, eat simply, and be skeptical when a perfect metric is sold as a cure. If this resonated, follow the show, share it with a friend, and leave a quick review—your support helps us keep the conversation honest and useful.

    Resources: 

    • Steve Horvath’s original epigenetic clock (2013, Genome Biology)
    • National Law Review+1
    • BryanJohnson.com
    • GrimAge and PhenoAge models (Aging, Nature Communications)
    • DunedinPACE (eLife, 2022)
    • Home | CALERIE
    • American Federation for Aging Research+1
    • The Documentary “Don’t Die: The Man Who Wants to Live Forever” on Netflix

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    1 hr 12 min
  • Ep 45-Bristol’s Broken Heart Unit and the Dangers of Club Culture

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    A newborn’s first breaths should be a promise. For too many families in Bristol during the 1980s and 1990s, that promise was broken by a system that mistook confidence for competence. We walk through how a respected pediatric cardiac unit drifted into preventable tragedy—where prolonged surgeries, poor post-op pathways, and a “club culture” sidelined data, silenced concerns, and cost lives. Then we connect the dots to the reforms that followed: centralizing complex surgery, raising volume thresholds, validating outcomes, and demanding transparency that patients can trust.

    If you care about patient safety, surgical outcomes, and how real change happens, you’ll find both caution and hope here. Subscribe, share this episode with someone who trusts medicine to get it right, and leave a review telling us: what should be public by default—surgical volumes, complication rates, or both?

    Resources: 

    Gresham College Lecture 

    https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1120824/ 

    https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/hc3201.097067 

    https://www.bristol-inquiry.org.uk/final_report/Summary.pdf 

    http://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1174641/ 

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/547035.stm 

    https://www.bmj.com/rapid-response/2011/10/27/mr-james-wisheart 

    https://www.enablelaw.com/news-and-insights/bristol-childrens-heart-scandal-20-years-on-from-the-gmc-hearings/ 

    https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/jul/23/jamesmeikle2 

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/558959.stm 



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  • Ep 44-Moose, Murder, And Medicine: The Attack of a Nightmare Patient

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    A quiet clinic. A calm voice in the hall. Then the shots that shattered a July morning in Petaluma, California. We follow the life and death stakes behind headlines: a breast cancer survivor seeking reconstruction, a competent surgeon navigating a fraught era of silicone implant fear, and the slow, chilling arc from anxious follow-ups to a fixed narrative of betrayal.

    We also step back to consider what safety looks like now. AI-assisted mammography is catching more interval cancers, reducing recalls, and freeing radiologists to spend time where it matters—conversation, judgment, and care. The contrast is stark: technology advancing early detection while human systems still learn to spot behavioral red flags—anger, fixation, refusal of evidence—before harm erupts. 

    If this story moved you, share it with someone who cares about safer healthcare. Follow the show, leave a rating or review, and tell us: what warning signs would you act on earlier?

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    1 hr 6 min
  • Ep 43-Vengeful Pathologist: the Murderous Anthony Joseph Garcia

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    A failed residency, a brittle ego, and years of simmering resentment—then two brutal double homicides that stunned Omaha. We unpack the Anthony Garcia case from the beginning, starting with his trajectory through medical school and pathology training at Creighton, the evaluations that documented poor judgment and disruptive behavior, and the dismissal that he interpreted as sabotage. What follows is a meticulous, evidence‑driven breakdown of how a professional grudge turned into targeted violence against the families of physicians he blamed for ending his career.

    If you value smart, evidence‑based storytelling at the intersection of healthcare and crime, hit follow, share this episode with a friend, and leave a rating or review. Your feedback helps more listeners find the show and keeps these deep‑dive investigations coming.

    Resources: 

    Medical Daily

    KETV

    Boston Globe   

    https://www.nebraska.gov/apps-courts-epub/public/viewOpinion?docId=N00005924PUB 

    https://www.wowt.com/ 

    https://www.omaha.com 

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/anthony-garcia-case-lone-star-defense-48-hours/ 

    https://www.nbcnews.com/dateline/topic/anthony-garcia 

    https://apnews.com/search?q=anthony+garcia+omaha 

    https://omaha.com/search/?q=Anthony+Garcia 

    https://www.ketv.com/search?q=Anthony+Garcia 

    https://nebraskapublicmedia.org/en/search/?q=anthony+garcia 

    https://omaha.com/search/?q=Louisiana+traffic+stop+Anthony+Garcia 

    life science (chart note)  



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    1 hr 11 min
  • Ep 42-Ruby McCollum And The Price Of Survival

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    A snowstorm, a noisy house full of pets, and then a hard turn into a story that still shakes the walls of medicine and justice: Ruby McCollum. We walk through Ruby’s path from a disciplined childhood in segregated Florida to a marriage that brought visibility and risk through the Bolita economy. When a respected physician blurred professional lines and used social power to control her body, Ruby learned to live in two worlds—outward composure and private calculation. Years later, a single moment in a doctor’s office revealed the truth no one with power wanted to face.

    Stick around for a listener medical mishap that adds levity without losing sight of the stakes. If this story moved you, share it with a friend, follow the show, and leave a review—your support helps more people find conversations that challenge power and champion dignity.

    Sources: 

    1. Thompson-Miller, Ruth. “The Trial of Ruby McCollum: The Consequences of Trauma: Segregation Stress Syndrome.” Journal of Community Medicine & Health Education 7, no. 7 (2017): Article.
      • Link: OMICS / Open Access Journal Omics Online Publishing
    2. Lynn, Denise. “Silencing Black Women in the White Courtroom: The Case of Ruby McCollum.” African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), February 6, 2019.
      • Link: AAIHS article AAIHS
    3. Adekunle, Toluwani E. “Reproductive Coercion, Medical Mistrust, and Black Women’s Health from the Antebellum Period to the 21st Century.” International Journal for Equity in Health 24 (2025).
      • Link: PubMed / NIH PMC PMC+1
    4. Harvard Law Review. “Over the Black Body and Reproduction in the Antebellum South” (Harvard Law Review 137, 2024).
      • Link (PDF): Harvard Law Review Volume 137 Harvard Law Review
    5. Ellis, C. Arthur, Jr. Hall of Mirrors: Confirmation and Presentist Biases in Continuing Accounts of the Ruby McCollum Story. Gadfly Publishing, 2016 (updated edition).
    6. BlackPast.org – Ruby McCollum Biography
      • Link: BlackPast.org Black Past

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    1 hr 4 min
  • Ep 41-No More Pizza Parties: Fix the System, Support Healthcare Worker's Mental Health!

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    Sirens fade, charts close, and the questions linger: who cares for the caregivers when the system won’t? We share the life and legacy of Dr. Lorna Breen, a brilliant emergency physician whose dedication collided with an unprecedented crisis. Her story opens the door to a candid conversation about moral injury, burnout, and the quiet barriers that keep clinicians from seeking help when they need it most.

    This is a conversation for anyone who’s ever carried the weight of the job home. If you believe better clinician well-being leads to better patient care, you’re in the right place. Listen, share with a colleague, and help shift the culture with us. If this resonates with your soul, follow the show, leave a review, and tell us the one change that would make your workday safer and saner.

    Resources: 

    Wiki 

    Vagelos College

    EMRA  

    Columbia Dept of EM 

    Long Reads 

    Time.com 

    drlornabreen.org

    ACEP

    https://drlornabreen.org/   

    Congress.gov 

    https://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(24)00668-2/fulltext 



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    58 min
  • Ep 40-Who Owns The Body: The One Who Cuts Or The One Who Bleeds?

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    A knife that could take a leg in thirty seconds, a theater packed with spectators, and a patient who never got a say—our journey begins with Robert Liston, the unrivaled speed surgeon of the nineteenth century. From there we follow the messy, gripping path from pain-as-proof to consent-as-right, revealing how anesthesia muted screams without restoring voice, and how courts, scandals, and patient advocates forced medicine to listen.

    If this conversation challenged your thinking, share it with someone facing a medical decision, subscribe for more deep dives, and leave a review to help others find the show. Then tell us: what would you want disclosed before any operation?
    References

    1. Liston, Robert. Practical Surgery. London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1837.
    2. Lister, Joseph. “On the Antiseptic Principle in the Practice of Surgery.” The Lancet 90, no. 2299 (1867): 353–356.
    3. Dickens, Charles. Household Words. Vol. 1, 1850. (Contains Dickens’s descriptions of Victorian surgical observation).
    4. Wakley, Thomas. The Lancet, 1823–1850 editorial campaigns against surgical exploitation and hospital abuses.
    5. Morton, W. T. G., and J. C. Warren. “First Public Demonstration of Ether Anesthesia.” Boston Medical and Surgical Journal 35 (1846): 309–317.
    6. Percival, Thomas. Medical Ethics; or, A Code of Institutes and Precepts, Adapted to the Professional Conduct of Physicians and Surgeons. Manchester: S. Russell, 1803.
    7. Historical and Academic Texts
    8. Porter, Roy. The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity. New York: W.W. Norton, 1997.
    9. Loudon, Irvine. Medical Care and the General Practitioner 1750–1850. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986.
    10. Stanley, Liz. The Industrial Revolution and the Body: Labor, Injury, and Anatomy. London: Routledge, 2001.
    11. Pernick, Martin S. A Calculus of Suffering: Pain, Professionalism, and Anesthesia in Nineteenth-Century America. New York: Columbia University Press, 1985.
    12. Duffin, Jacalyn. History of Medicine: A Scandalously Short Introduction. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010.
    13. Reiser, Stanley Joel. Medicine and the Reign of Technology. Cambridge University Press, 1978.
    14. Haeger, Knut. The Illustrated History of Surgery. London: Harold Starke, 1988.
    15. Seldon, Anthony, and Joanna Pappworth. Human Guinea Pigs: Experimentation on Man. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1967.
    16. Lawrence, Susan C. Charitable Knowledge: Hospital Pupils and Practitioners in Eighteenth-Century London. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
    17. Legal Cases and Commentaries
    18. Schloendorff v. Society of New York Hospital, 211 N.Y. 125, 105 N.E. 92 (1914).
    19. Salgo v. Leland Stanford Jr. Board of Trustees, 154 Cal. App. 2d 560, 317 P.2d 170 (Cal. Ct. App. 1957).
    20. Canterbury v. Spence, 464 F.2d 772 (D.C. Cir. 1972).
    21. Mohr v. Williams, 104 N.W. 12 (Minn. 1905) — early ruling on unauthorized surgery.
    22. Pratt v. Davis, 118 Ill. App. 161 (1905) — affirmed right to bodily autonomy.
    23. Beauchamp, Tom L., and James F. Childress. Principles of Biomedical Ethics. 8th ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.
    24. Faden, Ruth R., and Tom L. Beauchamp. A History and Theory of Informed Consent. Oxford: Oxford Un

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    1 hr 12 min
  • Re-release: Ep 39-Crimes On Ward Four-the Devastating Murders of a Nightmare Nurse (Part 2)

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    The scariest villains don’t lurk in shadows; they wear scrubs, speak softly, and learn your child’s name. We return to the Beverly Allitt case and follow the tight trail from confusion to certainty: unexplained pediatric collapses, careful interviews, and the lab result that cracked it open—insulin present with no C peptide, a forensic fingerprint of injection. That single biochemical detail reframed the entire investigation, linking opportunity, access, and intention in a way charm couldn’t erase.

    Between the hard chapters, we keep space for the human side of care—a “chart note” on engineered gut bacteria that could reduce kidney stones, a quick laugh from a translation mishap that reminds us why presence matters more than devices, and two sponsor spotlights aimed at real-life needs. Through it all, we hold to one theme: trust is fragile. Safeguards—from key control to documentation and lab literacy—aren’t red tape; they are the rails that keep patients safe when charisma tries to derail the truth.

    If this story made you think differently about evidence, motive, or safety in care, help us keep these conversations going. Subscribe or follow Doctoring the Truth, share the episode with a friend, and leave a five-star review to bring more curious listeners into the community. Your voice helps build a safer, smarter healthcare culture.

    Resources: 

    Reuters Chart Note 

    Wiki

    Washington Post  

    www.thefamouspeople.com

    Crime Library  

    www.biography.com 

    www.readersenjoyauthorsdreams.com 

    ​Murderpedia

    www.famousbio.net  

    BBC - Beverley Allitt Tapes 

    https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-07-genetically-gut-bacteria-combating-kidney.html 



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    50 min
  • Ep 39-Crimes On Ward Four-the Devastating Murders of a Nightmare Nurse (Part 2)

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    The scariest villains don’t lurk in shadows; they wear scrubs, speak softly, and learn your child’s name. We return to the Beverly Allitt case and follow the tight trail from confusion to certainty: unexplained pediatric collapses, careful interviews, and the lab result that cracked it open—insulin present with no C peptide, a forensic fingerprint of injection. That single biochemical detail reframed the entire investigation, linking opportunity, access, and intention in a way charm couldn’t erase.

    Between the hard chapters, we keep space for the human side of care—a “chart note” on engineered gut bacteria that could reduce kidney stones, a quick laugh from a translation mishap that reminds us why presence matters more than devices, and two sponsor spotlights aimed at real-life needs. Through it all, we hold to one theme: trust is fragile. Safeguards—from key control to documentation and lab literacy—aren’t red tape; they are the rails that keep patients safe when charisma tries to derail the truth.

    If this story made you think differently about evidence, motive, or safety in care, help us keep these conversations going. Subscribe or follow Doctoring the Truth, share the episode with a friend, and leave a five-star review to bring more curious listeners into the community. Your voice helps build a safer, smarter healthcare culture.

    Resources: 

    Reuters Chart Note 

    Wiki

    Washington Post  

    www.thefamouspeople.com

    Crime Library  

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  • Ep 38-Ghastly Godmother: The Horrifying Murders of a Night Nurse (Part 1)

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    A bright Children’s Ward. A reassuring nurse. Then a surge of cardiac arrests, hypoglycemia, and near-fatal collapses that no one could neatly explain. We step inside Grantham and Casteven Hospitals in the early ’90s to trace how a pattern of harm unfolded in plain sight—and how a trusted caregiver leveraged chaos, night shifts, and parental trust to stay close to the sickest children.

    Listen now for a careful, victim-centered retelling that honors families, examines systemic gaps, and sets the stage for part two’s legal and forensic outcomes. If this story moved you, share it with a friend, follow the show, and leave a review—your support helps more people find thoughtful true-crime storytelling grounded in healthcare and accountability.

    Resources: 

    Reuters Chart Note 

    Wiki

    Washington Post  

    www.thefamouspeople.com

    Crime Library  

    www.biography.com 

    www.readersenjoyauthorsdreams.com 

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    52 min

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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…