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
70 episodes
Ep 70-The Essential Oil Myth Machine: D Gary Young
A tiny bottle can carry a huge promise, especially when it is wrapped in “natural” language, a charismatic founder story, and a sales network that feels like community. We take a hard look at Young Living Essential Oils and founder D. Gary Youn...
Ep 69-Genital Mutilation Disguised as Love Surgery
A surgeon tells you everything went fine then you spend years in pain, ashamed, and confused because the truth never made it into your chart. We dig into the case of Dr James Burt of Dayton, Ohio, the physician behind “love surgery,” a set of e...
Ep 68-The Church of Bleach
A “miracle cure” gets whispered about at an autism conference, and the rabbit hole opens fast. We follow the bizarre rise of Miracle Mineral Solution (MMS), a two-part chemical kit that produces chlorine dioxide, and how it’s been promoted as a...
Ep 67-In the Trenches with Marybeth: Keep Your Wits
A masked team storms the classroom, guns drawn, and within seconds everyone is zip tied, hooded, and ordered face-first to a wall. It’s “only” training, but your body doesn’t know that and Nurse Mary Beth Beseke proves how fast fear can wipe ou...
Ep 66-A Partridge for Lunch (Part2 John Bodkins Adams)
He pockets morphine during a police search, shrugs off forged prescriptions with “God’s forgiveness,” and still claims it’s impossible to accuse a doctor. We follow the case of Dr John Bodkin Adams in 1950s Eastbourne as Scotland Yard’s Murder ...
Ep 65-The Doctor Who Inherited The Dead
A beloved doctor who prays at the bedside, shows up in the middle of the night, and somehow keeps ending up in his patients’ wills. That is the unsettling setup behind our deep dive into Dr John Bodkin Adams, the Eastbourne GP later suspected o...
Ep 64-Lucy Letby (Part 3) When Doubt Meets A Verdict and Introducing Mary Beth
A verdict can be final in court and still deserve careful re-testing in public life, especially when the case depends on complex medicine most jurors can only access through experts. We’re back for the third and final part of our Lucy Letby ser...
Ep 63-Lucy Letby (Part Two) When Medicine Meets Reasonable Doubt
A case can feel settled in court and still feel unsettled in science. We take on Part 2 of the Lucy Letby story by walking through what the jury heard, what the Court of Appeal later weighed, and why so many clinicians, statisticians, journalis...
Ep 62-Lucy Letby (Part One) and a Swiss Cheese Smuggler
A neonatal unit is supposed to be the safest room in a hospital and yet this story begins with a run of collapses that staff couldn’t make sense of. We’re finally digging into Part 1 of the Lucy Letby case, starting where so many explanations a...
Ep 61-Twelve Deaths in Thirteen Days: A Nursing Home Death Spike
Five people are reported murdered in their beds at 3 a.m. and the scene makes no sense. No broken windows. No forced entry. No masked intruder. Just a nursing home hallway, a butcher knife, and a night-shift supervisor with a wound that looks m...
Ep 60-Never Never Land: Rhode Island Hospital's Decade of Surgical Scandals
A hospital can have world-class branding and still be dangerously broken where it counts. We’re heading to Rhode Island Hospital, a major teaching hospital tied to Brown University, to follow a decade-plus trail of “never events” like wrong-sit...
Ep 59- Beware the Ice Pick: The Lobotomy Era
An ice pick through the eye socket. Ten minutes of “surgery.” A taxi ride home. That’s not an urban legend, it’s a documented moment in the history of lobotomy, and it captures the sick casualness that let psychosurgery become mainstream.
Ep 58-Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust: A Funeral Home Horror Story
They thought they were holding their loved one one last time, then they learned the urn held concrete. We’re walking through the Return to Nature Funeral Home scandal in Colorado, where investigators say nearly 190 bodies were left to decompose...
Ep 57-Organ Donation Disasters
The scariest part of modern medicine isn’t always the unknown, it’s the moment you realize the system can build momentum before certainty feels complete. We’re talking about organ donation disasters and near misses that force one brutal questio...
Ep 56-Notorious Nurse: The Murders of Jolly Jane
A cheerful bedside smile is supposed to mean safety. That’s why the case of Jane Toppin, nicknamed “Jolly Jane,” still hits like a gut punch more than a century later. We walk through how a Boston woman born Honora Kelly could become one of Ame...
Ep 55-Inside The Psychopath Test: Power, Labels, And The Cost Of Certainty (Part 2)
A checklist that claims to measure danger. A hospital that tried to manufacture empathy with LSD and isolation. A courtroom that treats a number like destiny. We dive into the strange power of labels by tracing the psychopathy story from Oak Ri...
Ep 54-From Checklists To Chaos: Psychopathy, Oak Ridge, And The Mask Of Sanity (Part One)
A bright green room. No clocks. No privacy. And a radical promise: strip away the mask and rebuild empathy from the inside out. We follow that promise from a cryptic book that landed in mailboxes worldwide to the Psychopathy Checklist (PCL-R) a...
Ep 53-Sedation, Secrets, And The Dark Web: Exposing A Predator In A Dental Clinic
A patient under anesthesia is supposed to be safe. What we uncovered is what happens when that safety is only assumed. We dig into the case of Cody Alan Stolfa, a dental assistant in Stillwater, Oklahoma, who pled guilty to 33 felonies for sexu...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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,...
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...
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...