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Pick Your Poison
Dr. JP shares her passion for poisons in this interactive show. Pick Your Poison is a fast-paced, interactive podcast about poisons and toxins, mischief and murder ranging from ancient history to pop culture. Your choices direct the diagnosis and treatment. Make the wrong choice and our patient won’t survive the podcast.
Episodes
72 episodes
Cold Fire
What toxin can spontaneously combust in the emergency department? What poison is so potent that the patients' vomit and stools are a danger to staff members? Why are there no bones at the famous battle of Waterloo where ten thousand men died in...
Killer Candy
Want to know what candy can kill you? Though the flavor is so beloved, it was found in King Tut's tomb. And might make camels less thirsty? Listen to find out.
Breathing Fire
Want to know what causes fire eaters' lung, what disease you can get from sitting in a hot tub, and how you can be poisoned by stealing gasoline? Grab your stethoscope and let's go!
Poisoned by Paleontology
Today's episode is about a toxin so powerful that a little smeared on the tip of a blowgun arrow is enough to silence every muscle in your body, including your diaphragm, stopping your breathing. How did a poison like this become a commonly use...
Locked In
Imagine a fever that doesn't break with acetaminophen (i.e. Tylenol or paracetamol). A toxin that leaves you trapped inside your own body. Want to know what your doctor is really thinking when you tell them you take a round white pill? Listen t...
The Last Supper
Want to know What meal ended the House of Habsburg and was said by Voltaire to have changed the destiny of Europe? The risks associated with foraging, and what milk thistle might be an antidote for? Listen to find out!
The Quiet Baby
Want to know What antidote is made from the blood of scientists? And what poisoning occurs due to a lack of bile acids and good bacteria in the GI tract? Listen to find out!
Sublimation
Mystery lovers, this one is for you. We are going to discuss a real-life scenario where a person can be found dead in an enclosed space, without evidence of trauma, intrusion, or even another person. Listen to find out how it happen...
Sweet
Want to know what toxin affects humans, but not bees? What contaminated substance is so valuable, people risk their lives to collect it? What popular natural substance was used in biological warfare in wars between Russia and Ukraine in the pas...
Hot Water
Want to know what easily available product in the drug store works like botulism? Why enemas were used to treat brain injuries? Listen to find out!
Fermentation
Want to know what ingredient in beer other than alcohol causes disease in humans? What might be defense attorneys favorite medical diagnosis? Why everyone has a positive blood alcohol level, even if they don’t drink a drop? Listen to find out!
Fumigation
Will our patient survive this podcast? It’s up to you and the choices you make. Want to know what toxin has killed thrives robbing houses? What pesticide is so poisonous it depletes the ozone layer? Listen to find out!
Bad Advice
Want to know what poisoned advice was given by a chatbot? What drug toxicity is also a euphemism for trite or boring? What toxin is in the Dead Sea? Listen to find out.
Adulteration
What to know what drug of abuse is called rhino tranq? What adulterant found in fentanyl is also used as a medicine in the ED and ICU? And can cause life-threatening withdrawal? Listen to find out!
Blue Mood 2
Want to know what cocaine has to do with residency hours? What genetic disease can kill you in the operating room? How a missed diagnosis resulted in changes to the training of every American intern and resident afterward? Listen to find out!&n...
Blue Mood
Want to know what the wet-dog shakes have to do with humans? What drug reaction causes a temperature so high it can cook the proteins inside your body? What over the counter medicine can cause a potentially life-threatening reaction with SSRIs?...
Pick Your Poison Trailer
Interested in poisons, mystery, and murder in mayhem? You're in the right place. This is Pick your Poison. I'm your host, Dr. JP, here to share my passion for poisons. It is a fast-paced interactive show where your choices direct the dia...
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Abyssinian Tea
Want to know what substance is used by 20 million people a day worldwide, but almost unknown in Western countries. What movie might’ve included US drug policy and what plant’s potency decreases rapidly once it’s picked? Listen to find out! ...
Fresh Air
What to know what antidote is getting more attention on social media than the poison it treats? What happens if the doctor panics while giving it. Why people are drinking fish tank antifungal cleaner? Listen to find out!
Hemorrhage Part 2
Want to know what dictators’ autopsy was published on the front page of the newspaper, why he hated doctors and what that had to do with his death? What leeches were used for in 1950? Listen to find out!
Hemorrhage
Want to know why cocaine is used in the operating room? What toxin has been used in bombs, impregnated into clothing and sprayed on salad bars? What rat poison is treated with vitamins? Listen to find out!
Pumped
Want to know what eating meat has to do with doping and drug testing in the Olympics? What medicine to treat asthma in horses is abused by humans for weight loss? Listen to find out!
Hitchhiker
Want to know what hitchhikers have to do with toxicology? Exposure to what animal has been mistaken for a drug of abuse? What substance costs $40 million dollars per gallon? Listen to find out.
