Medical Episodes

This week, The Audio Guy is our final guest star and doesn't want to be a beaver, someone is a loser ghost, a barefoot medieval knight does a somersault, a nurse has two jobs in order to be a nurse and fails at both, TAG wants people to take their destinies by the dick, and a dialysis clinic has the most morbid layout imaginable. Content warnings: divorce, depression, vague mention of suicidal ideation/in-patient treatment. drug addiction/abuse, domestic disputes without explicit violence, job ...

This week, Melanie ventures into the worst part of 2007 internet, the wendigo finally gets his day in court, Brianne would rather get eaten than deal with someone crying but Melanie loves the aesthetics of it, we get a classic “I didn’t know I was pregnant” story at 42,000 feet, someone jumps out of a moving train, Melanie introduces a different kind of birth canal, someone has a baby up a tree with crocodiles, Brianne nearly walks out on the job over a nightmarish story, and Melanie is marked s...

SHOW NOTES Content warnings: Institutional/medical racism, COVID-19/vaccine hesitancy, syphilis, brief and euphemistic adult joke Links: 40 Years of Human Experimentation in America: The Tuskegee Study Black Airmen turn racism, bigotry into opportunity Blackface photo reopens long history of bigotry in medicine Condemned to Die for Science Decades later, infamous Tuskegee syphilis study stirs wariness in Black community over COVID-19 vaccine Descendants of Tuskegee Syphilis Study Survivors Say...