“The Father of Gynecology” J. Marion Sims Pt. 1

It takes a certain type of evil to poison a person, but a far greater kind to do it repeatedly, and to one's own wife nonetheless. It wasn't that Dr. Pritchard loathed the woman he married. She simply...

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In May 1863, a young woman's charred remains were found resting in the surgical chair of a surgeon's home office. Whispers flew about town, claiming that Dr. William Pritchard had torched his own prac...

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Fatigue, nausea, and cramping are all symptoms that dialysis patients regularly face, as they rely on their medical professionals to do the work that their kidneys once did. But in 2008, at a clinic i...

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When malpractice occurs, justice often lies with the hospitals who hired the malicious professional in the first place. But it was all too easy for Texas institutions to turn a blind eye to Dr. Christ...

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When Dr. Christopher Duntsch was ousted from the biotech startup he co-founded, he pursued a new career in medicine as a spinal surgeon. He was inexperienced, inept, and arrogant — but his charm secur...

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In 1986, Donald Harvey began a new job at a hospital in Ohio, where he moved from suffocating patients to poisoning them in lethal experiments. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.c...

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Donald Harvey was a hospital orderly in Kentucky and Ohio who killed dozens of patients in the 1970s. He was also a neo-Nazi who learned witchcraft, and would regularly summon a spirit he called Dunca...

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In the late 1980s and early ‘90s, a young respiratory therapist made medicine his whole life. But the extra shifts and multiple jobs started taking a toll — and it wasn’t long before rumors began circ...

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