Doctoring the Truth
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.
Episodes
52 episodes
Ep 52-Fertility Fraud and Bringing a Gun to a Family Reunion
A phone buzzes, a DNA app refreshes, and a life story tilts. We follow the chain reaction from a single “close relative” match to a web of half-siblings who piece together the sordid truth. What starts as an ancestry curiosity becomes a reckoni...
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Season 2
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Episode 52
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1:12:04
Ep 51-Burned By Belief: The Truth About Ear Candling
A candle crackles, a brown residue appears, and someone swears their sinuses feel clear. It looks convincing—until you test the physics, check the anatomy, and tally the injuries. We pull back the curtain on ear candling with an audiologist’s e...
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Season 2
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Episode 51
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59:35
Ep 50-Stem Cell Scams and Our Anniversary!
Hope is powerful—but in the wrong hands, it becomes a sales tactic. We’re celebrating one year together by pulling back the curtain on stem cell scams: how slick marketing borrows the language of science, why “FDA registered” is not the same as...
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Season 1
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Episode 50
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1:05:39
Ep 49-AZ Stands for CrAZy! The Disturbing Case of a Slasher Surgeon
A trusted OB carved his initials into a new mother’s abdomen—and the room stayed silent. That chilling moment became a case study in how personal trust, professional boundaries, and institutional oversight can all fail at once. We walk through ...
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Season 1
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Episode 49
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1:01:24
Ep 48-Pretty Poison: The Shocking Truth About Skin Whitening Creams, plus Weather Pants Reveal
A face cream that blinds a mother. A washing machine that spreads mercury vapor to kids’ bedding. The story unfolds from two devastating cases and pulls back the curtain on a larger problem: toxic skin lightening products hiding in plain sight,...
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Season 1
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Episode 48
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1:02:35
Ep 47-Fatal Mismatch: A Transplant Tragedy
A teenage girl crosses a border for a chance at life—and loses it to a mistake so basic it should have been impossible. We dive into the case of Jesica Santillán, the 17-year-old who received an incompatible heart-lung transplant, and trace how...
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Season 1
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Episode 47
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1:00:40
Ep 46-Don't Die: Bryan Johnson and Longevity Science
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 epig...
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Season 1
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Episode 46
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1:11:13
Ep 45-Bristol’s Broken Heart Unit and the Dangers of Club Culture
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 drift...
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Season 1
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Episode 45
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1:03:01
Ep 44-Moose, Murder, And Medicine: The Attack of a Nightmare Patient
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 navigatin...
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Season 1
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Episode 44
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1:05:26
Ep 43-Vengeful Pathologist: the Murderous Anthony Joseph Garcia
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 tr...
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Season 1
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Episode 43
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1:10:27
Ep 42-Ruby McCollum And The Price Of Survival
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 bro...
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Season 1
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Episode 42
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1:03:54
Ep 41-No More Pizza Parties: Fix the System, Support Healthcare Worker's Mental Health!
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. He...
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Season 1
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Episode 41
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57:58
Ep 40-Who Owns The Body: The One Who Cuts Or The One Who Bleeds?
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, g...
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Season 1
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Episode 40
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1:11:49
Re-release: Ep 39-Crimes On Ward Four-the Devastating Murders of a Nightmare Nurse (Part 2)
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 inte...
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Season 1
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Episode 39
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49:01
Ep 38-Ghastly Godmother: The Horrifying Murders of a Night Nurse (Part 1)
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 h...
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Season 1
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Episode 38
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51:03
Ep 37-The Naughty Nose Doc, Feat. "Don't Call Me Shazzer"
A marble‑and‑steel clinic, an in‑office CT scanner, and a surgeon who promised fast fixes for every sinus woe—then a trail of lawsuits, a vanished yacht guest list, and a fugitive life in the Alps. We pull back the curtain on the “Nose Doc” sag...
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Season 1
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Episode 37
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1:20:39
Ep 36-Arsenic and Double Indemnity
A tailor’s back room, a bottle of “powder,” and a stack of insurance forms—our step-by-step tour of Philadelphia’s 1930s arsenic ring reveals how murder became a business, cloaked in folk magic and legitimized by paperwork. We start with a misd...
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Season 1
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Episode 36
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53:23
Ep 35-Milk of Amnesia, Michael Jackson's Killer
A panicked phone call, a birthday detour, and an orange tree set the stage for a darker question we can’t ignore: what happens when medicine bends to fame? We trace Michael Jackson’s path from Gary’s crowded rooms to global icon, then into the ...
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Season 1
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Episode 35
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1:14:09
Ep 34-Caregiver Con: No Body, No Crime?
A brake-slam on a country road sets the tone for an hour where trust, timing, and tiny choices change everything. We start with a heart-pounding near-miss and pivot into the disappearance of Gerald “Jerry” Rayborn—an 89-year-old father and WWII...
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Season 1
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Episode 34
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1:07:20
Ep 33-The Original Doctor Death: Harold Shipman
What happens when the person you trust most with your life becomes your executioner? In this chilling episode, we unravel the disturbing case of Dr. Harold Shipman, the most prolific serial killer in modern history, whose medical license became...
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Season 1
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Episode 33
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1:11:32
Ep 32-Lethal Obsession: A Nurse's Deadly Revenge
When 24-year-old Michelle Herndon was found dead in her Gainesville home, nothing seemed immediately amiss. No signs of struggle, no forced entry – just a vibrant young woman inexplicably gone. But a single empty bathroom trash can would unrave...
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Season 1
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Episode 32
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53:46
Ep 31-Aw Snap! Another Sociopathic Surgeon! (Part 2)
What happens when the person wearing the white coat is more dangerous than the disease they claim to treat? The horrifying saga of Dr. Anthony Pignataro reveals how a man with fabricated credentials and failed medical training managed to operat...
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Season 1
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Episode 31
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1:07:12
Ep 30-Oh Snap! Another Sociopathic Surgeon! (Part 1)
Anthony Pignataro exemplifies narcissistic personality disorder in medicine, using forged credentials and manipulation to practice despite repeatedly failing residencies and harming patients. His story reveals how narcissism and hubris in healt...
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Season 1
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Episode 30
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1:02:29
Ep 29-Dating Apps and Deadly Deception: The Doctor Who Drugged His Dates
Stephen Matthews appeared to be the perfect catch on dating apps - successful doctor, dog owner, outdoor enthusiast. But behind this carefully crafted image lurked a calculated predator who drugged and assaulted multiple women after gaining the...
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Season 1
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Episode 29
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1:12:15
Ep 28-The Cook Who Killed: Typhoid Mary's Deadly Legacy
What happens when healthcare professionals face a critical pediatric emergency and systemic resistance simultaneously? Our episode opens with a gripping medical mishap submitted by a nurse who found themselves racing against time to save a 4-ye...
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Season 1
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Episode 28
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1:10:02