Fictional crime stories. Real nursing vibes. Every faux medical thriller case reads like true crime and is examined through a clinical lens.

Love a good nursing drama or diving into twisted clinical lore? Know someone who can’t watch a medical show without thinking, “that's not how that goes”? Send them Vaso & Vibes. Every episode is a dark medical thriller unpacked through real nursing science.

Designer drugs, cults, and fish sandwiches...this episode has it all.

This episode contains references to illicit drug use, torture and violence. Listener discretion strongly advised.

As she reaches for her door, she suddenly feels a hand over her mouth and a wet cloth over her face. She gasps and before she can scream, she feels it: the knife swiftly puncturing her skin and sinking into the carotid artery in her neck.

She never saw it coming and was effectively dead before she hit the pavement.

And as absurd as it sounds, it all began with a soggy tuna sandwich.

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Fictional crime stories. Real nursing vibes. Every faux medical thriller case reads like true crime and is examined through a clinical lens.

Love a good nursing drama or diving into twisted clinical lore? Know someone who can’t watch a medical show without thinking, “that's not how that goes”? Send them Vaso & Vibes. Every episode is a dark medical thriller unpacked through real nursing science.

When detectives began investigating this case, it didn’t start at the crime scene.

It didn’t start at the victim’s home.

It didn’t even start at the suspect’s home.

It started with a patient’s file.

Inside that file, investigators found the clues that revealed what likely happened to the victim. They pieced together the case long before the body was found. And the clues, eyewitness testimony, and scant evidence found at the crime scene told a grim story of a vulnerable, impressionable young girl who just…needed help.

But that help never came.

Only Evangeline.

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Like the show? Support Vaso & Vibes on Patreon.

Fictional crime stories. Real nursing vibes. Every faux medical thriller case reads like true crime and is examined through a clinical lens.

Love a good nursing drama or diving into twisted clinical lore? Know someone who can’t watch a medical show without thinking, “that's not how that goes”? Send them Vaso & Vibes. Every episode is a dark medical thriller unpacked through real nursing science.

This episode contains references to torture and violence. Listener discretion strongly advised.

What happened to Gretchen should happen to no woman—or person for that matter—but happens all too frequently in our society. With our friends, neighbors, coworkers—that we see everyday, but don’t really know what’s going on behind closed doors and in toxic relationships. 

Keep your friends close…but keep their friends even closer. 

Sam found this out the hard way.

So let’s get into it. 

The case of Sam and Gretchen.

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Disclaimer: This podcast is for informational and entertainment purposes only and does not constitute medical, psychological, or legal advice. The stories, characters, and scenarios discussed are creative, synthesized composites and do not reflect actual patient cases. The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are entirely the host’s own and do not represent the views of any employer, hospital, or healthcare institution.

For more information, visit: www.vasoandvibes.com

1:36 a.m. And okay, where’s is Jordan…and who dragged her away?

Disclaimer: This podcast is for informational and entertainment purposes only and does not constitute medical, psychological, or legal advice. The stories, characters, and scenarios discussed are creative, synthesized composites and do not reflect actual patient cases. The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are entirely the host’s own and do not represent the views of any employer, hospital, or healthcare institution.

Sources, credits, and episode transcripts can be found at the ⁠Vaso & Vibes Substack⁠.

I am excited to announce: there is now a place for you to join me in the…after hours…discussion about this episode—and all episodes— and that is at the Vaso & Vibes Patreon account. It gives breakroom conversation; you know, the nitty gritty fun that doesn’t happen out on the unit floor. In my hospital, I work the night shift, and I absolutely love the vibes that come with it. Chill, low-fi, and—honestly, a little spooky—where all the magic happens and that’s precisely the ambiance I wanted to create for my podcast fan club community.

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Most residents in this rural community are asleep at this time. But beyond the banks of Polecat Creek and on the outskirts of the cemetery, someone is creeping through the dense fog, calculating every step and listening out for every sound.

Her name is Jordan and she has masterminded her plan for the drop down to the tiniest detail. She feels the kudzu vines wrapping around her ankles like hands reaching up from beneath the ground dragging her six feet under, but she persists. If she makes it up the hill and past the old lantern posts draped in kudzu, she is in the clear. Only a few steps away. A branch snaps and she hears a splash. Jordan ducks down into the vines waiting until she thinks it’s safe to proceed.

Except it wasn’t safe to proceed, and at 12:46 a.m., she heard the piercing crack of a high-powered rifle.

Disclaimer: This podcast is for informational and entertainment purposes only and does not constitute medical, psychological, or legal advice. The stories, characters, and scenarios discussed are creative, synthesized composites and do not reflect actual patient cases. The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are entirely the host’s own and do not represent the views of any employer, hospital, or healthcare institution.

Sources, credits, and episode transcripts can be found at the Vaso & Vibes Substack.

I am excited to announce: there is now a place for you to join me in the…after hours…discussion about this episode—and all episodes— and that is at the Vaso & Vibes Patreon account. It gives breakroom conversation; you know, the nitty gritty fun that doesn’t happen out on the unit floor. In my hospital, I work the night shift, and I absolutely love the vibes that come with it. Chill, low-fi, and—honestly, a little spooky—where all the magic happens and that’s precisely the ambiance I wanted to create for my podcast fan club community.

Join the conversation on Patreon for the Vaso & Vibes: Night Shift Huddle.

“But before you leave, I do have an additional question. Two, actually. You are aware of the incident that happened between the twins when they were young?" The detective asked.

“You mean the thing with the bikes when they were children? Yes, Ryan told me,” she said.

“And you’re aware of what Ryan did for retaliation? His little ‘long game’? How he lured Bryan into—”

“Yes, I’m aware. May I leave now?” Tamesha interrupted.

She was not aware of what the detective was referring to, but again, it was none of her business. But she would always wonder.

Disclaimer: This podcast is for informational and entertainment purposes only and does not constitute medical, psychological, or legal advice. The stories, characters, and scenarios discussed are creative, synthesized composites and do not reflect actual patient cases. The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are entirely the host’s own and do not represent the views of any employer, hospital, or healthcare institution.

Sources, credits, and episode transcripts can be found at the Vaso & Vibes Substack.

I am excited to announce: there is now a place for you to join me in the…after hours…discussion about this episode—and all episodes— and that is at the Vaso & Vibes Patreon account. It gives breakroom conversation; you know, the nitty gritty fun that doesn’t happen out on the unit floor. In my hospital, I work the night shift, and I absolutely love the vibes that come with it. Chill, low-fi, and—honestly, a little spooky—where all the magic happens and that’s precisely the ambiance I wanted to create for my podcast fan club community.

Join the conversation on Patreon for the Vaso & Vibes: Night Shift.

Most heart attacks happen between 6:00am and noon, when there is an increased risk of a grave cardiovascular event. Bryan and Ryan were there for it. The twins did everything together. They played ice hockey in high school together, and even had the same 3.9 grade point average. So when they decided they wanted to become flight nurses, they first became EMTs (Emergency Medical Techs) while taking prerequisite courses at the community college for nursing school. On Monday, December 23, 2002 at exactly 6:02 am, two calls came into the station; both for people presumably having heart attacks. Bryan, Ryan, and their respective partners took the calls. It was settled: Bryan and Keith, his partner, would go on one call; Ryan and Tamesha, his partner, would go on the other. Loaded up and ready to go, each ambulance with their respective partnerships departed the squad bay at the exact same time.

Only one of them would arrive at the hospital.

Disclaimer: This podcast is for informational and entertainment purposes only and does not constitute medical, psychological, or legal advice. The stories, characters, and scenarios discussed are creative, synthesized composites and do not reflect actual patient cases. The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are entirely the host’s own and do not represent the views of any employer, hospital, or healthcare institution.

Sources, credits, and episode transcripts can be found at the Vaso & Vibes Substack.

I am excited to announce: there is now a place for you to join me in the…after hours…discussion about this episode—and all episodes— and that is at the Vaso & Vibes Patreon account. It gives breakroom conversation; you know, the nitty gritty fun that doesn’t happen out on the unit floor. In my hospital, I work the night shift, and I absolutely love the vibes that come with it. Chill, low-fi, and—honestly, a little spooky—where all the magic happens and that’s precisely the ambiance I wanted to create for my podcast fan club community.

Join the conversation on Patreon for the Vaso & Vibes: Night Shift.

Viktoria sees the love and closeness of the family, and wishes she had that. She also realizes: the only way to keep her nursing license in tact—and her life—is to leave. 

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Disclaimer: This podcast is for informational and entertainment purposes only and does not constitute medical, psychological, or legal advice. The stories, characters, and scenarios discussed are creative, synthesized composites and do not reflect actual patient cases. The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are entirely the host’s own and do not represent the views of any employer, hospital, or healthcare institution.

For more information, visit: www.vasoandvibes.com

Credits:

Theme Song:

“Game Day” by JMHBM, from the Free Music Archive

Intro:
“Golden” by Little Glass Men, from the Free Music Archive; no changes were made to the original track.

Outro:
”Lofi Soul Hip Hop Mix 3” by Ketsa from the Free Music Archive; no changes were made to the original track.

Other Music:

"Terror Drome" by Mark Wilson X from the Free Music Archive; no changes were made to the original track.

“Tense and Rising” by Free the Muses, from the Free Music Archive

In a crowded loft apartment over an accounting office lived three generations of Viktoria’s family: Dedushka (her grandfather), Babushka (her grandmother), her two older brothers, her mother, and her younger brother. Dedushka, an accountant, owns the building; it is his office downstairs. Next door, Viktoria’s uncle, Dada Dima, owned the European store and lived above it with his family: his wife and his daughter Sofia. On the same block was the boxing gym also owned by their family.

Each of these establishments opened up to the back alley.

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Disclaimer: This podcast is for informational and entertainment purposes only and does not constitute medical, psychological, or legal advice. The stories, characters, and scenarios discussed are creative, synthesized composites and do not reflect actual patient cases. The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are entirely the host’s own and do not represent the views of any employer, hospital, or healthcare institution.

For more information, visit: www.vasoandvibes.com

Credits:

Theme Song:

“Game Day” by JMHBM, from the Free Music Archive

Intro:
”Ephemeral III" (Lilith”” by Le Chaos Enter 2 Chaises, from the Free Music Archive; no changes were made to the original track

“Golden” by Little Glass Men, from the Free Music Archive; no changes were made to the original track.

Outro:
”Lofi Soul Hip Hop Mix 3” by Ketsa from the Free Music Archive; no changes were made to the original track.

Other Music:

“Tense and Rising” by Free the Muses, from the Free Music Archive

Monday morning is when Millie comes to C23; she always does. She brings colored pencils—freshly sharpened—coloring books, and masking tape. Claudia loves the fractal sheets. Swirling geometric patterns of leaves and nautilus shells.

“Everything spirals eventually in nature; it is no less beautiful,” she says.

Credits:

Theme Song:

“Game Day” by JMHBM, from the Free Music Archive

Intro:
"Golden” by Little Glass Men, from the Free Music Archive; no changes were made to the original track. 

Outro:
”Lofi Soul Hip Hop Mix 3” by Ketsa from the Free Music Archive; no changes were made to the original track.

Other Music:

“Tense and Rising” by Free the Muses, from the Free Music Archive

Disclaimer: This podcast is for informational and entertainment purposes only and does not constitute medical, psychological, or legal advice. The stories, characters, and scenarios discussed are creative, synthesized composites and do not reflect actual patient cases. The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are entirely the host’s own and do not represent the views of any employer, hospital, or healthcare institution.