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Doctoring the Truth

Jenne Tunnell and Amanda House

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.

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All Episodes

68:35

Ep 61-Twelve Deaths in Thirteen Days: A Nursing Home...

Doctoring the Truth ·

2026/04/24

Send us Fan Mail 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 more staged than survived. We walk through the North Horizon Healthcare Center case and the 1984 timeline that still feels unreal: twelve deaths in thirteen days in a 50-bed facility, many tied to insulin overdose and at least one to man...

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60:45

Ep 60-Never Never Land: Rhode Island Hospital's...

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2026/04/10

Send us Fan Mail 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-site surgery, wrong-patient procedures, and failures so basic they sound unreal until you see the record. If you care about patient safety, hospital accountability, and how healthcare systems fail, this one will stick with you. Subscribe...

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70:22

Ep 59- Beware the Ice Pick: The Lobotomy Era

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2026/04/03

Send us Fan Mail 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. If you care about medical ethics, informed consent, disability rights, or how mental health treatment gets shaped by social pressure, this conversation will stick with you. Subscribe, share this with a friend who loves medical history, and l...

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62:35

Ep 58-Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust: A Funeral Home...

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2026/03/27

Send us Fan Mail 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 in a Penrose building while grieving families were told cremations and burials were complete. It’s one of those true crime stories that doesn’t just horrify you, it makes you re-check what you assume is regulated, inspected, and safe i...

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52:21

Ep 57-Organ Donation Disasters

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2026/03/20

Send us Fan Mail 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 question: how do we know someone is truly dead when organ procurement is on the clock? Using the reported case of TJ Hoover in Kentucky, we trace how a single story can crack public trust, especially when families say they saw signs of life an...

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66:01

Ep 56-Notorious Nurse: The Murders of Jolly Jane

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2026/03/13

Send a text 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 America’s earliest notorious female serial killers while working as a nurse, using charm as cover and exploiting the gaps of late-1800s medical oversight. We trace her early life through poverty, loss, institutionalization, and being indenture...

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62:29

Ep 55-Inside The Psychopath Test: Power, Labels, And...

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2026/03/06

Send a text 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 Ridge’s “total encounter capsule” to Robert Hare’s PCL-R and the very real ways scores still steer sentencing, parole, and civil commitment. We unpack the seductive clarity of risk tools—and the trouble that follows when dimensional traits ar...

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51:47

Ep 54-From Checklists To Chaos: Psychopathy, Oak...

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2026/03/01

Send a text 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) and then into Oak Ridge’s notorious Total Encounter Capsule—where encounter therapy, humiliation, and even LSD tried to force transformation. The footage looked convincing; the results, years later, were devastating. When “healing” teaches pe...

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59:43

Ep 53-Sedation, Secrets, And The Dark Web: Exposing A...

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2026/02/13

Send a text 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 sexually assaulting sedated patients—crimes revealed not by a complaint, but by a dark‑web video that set off a digital breadcrumb trail. It’s a story about power, access, and how easily abuse hides in the gaps of outpatient care. From there, w...

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72:04

Ep 52-Fertility Fraud and Bringing a Gun to a Family...

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2026/02/06

Send us a text 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 reckoning with consent, identity, and the limits of the law. We also zoom out to the legal and medical landscape. Why did prosecutors reach for obstruction instead of charging the underlying deception? How did advocacy push Indiana to create on...

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59:35

Ep 51-Burned By Belief: The Truth About Ear Candling

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2026/01/30

Send us a text 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 eye: what the cones are made of, how they’re used, the sweeping claims from “wax removal” to “brain detox,” and the simple reason the residue you see isn’t coming from your ear. We trace the marketing myth of ancient origins, the Hopi trib...

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65:39

Ep 50-Stem Cell Scams and Our Anniversary!

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2026/01/23

Send us a text 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 FDA approved, and where vulnerable patients get hurt most—from cash-only clinics to medical tourism that ends in sepsis or even blindness. Why do smart people fall for this? Because these schemes weaponize urgency, testimonials, and the...

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61:24

Ep 49-AZ Stands for CrAZy! The Disturbing Case of a...

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2026/01/16

Send us a text 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 Liana Geds’ experience, the legal strategy that separated malpractice from battery, and the bizarre Pick’s disease defense used to argue away intent. The outcome? A plea to second-degree assault, light institutional fines, and a five-year...

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62:35

Ep 48-Pretty Poison: The Shocking Truth About Skin...

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2026/01/09

Send us a text 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, fueled by colorism and weak enforcement, and sold with claims that work fast enough to silence doubt. We unpack how mercury suppresses melanin, bioaccumulates in the brain and kidneys, and contaminates homes through laundry and air—often...

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60:40

Ep 47-Fatal Mismatch: A Transplant Tragedy

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2026/01/02

Send us a text 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 a single missed safeguard exposed cracks across donor services, hospital protocols, and communication chains. This isn’t a story about rare complications or experimental risk; it’s about the simplest check in medicine—blood type matching...

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Ep 46-Don't Die: Bryan Johnson and Longevity Science

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2025/12/26

Send us a text 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 epigenetic clocks, the appeal of tight control, and the lesson medicine keeps relearning—lowering a risky marker isn’t the same as improving a life. We trace hard-won examples from ICU glucose control to HRT and anti-arrhythmics, then map tha...

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63:01

Ep 45-Bristol’s Broken Heart Unit and the Dangers of...

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2025/12/19

Send us a text 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 drifted into preventable tragedy—where prolonged surgeries, poor post-op pathways, and a “club culture” sidelined data, silenced concerns, and cost lives. Then we connect the dots to the reforms that followed: centralizing complex surgery, rai...

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65:26

Ep 44-Moose, Murder, And Medicine: The Attack of a...

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2025/12/12

Send us a text 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 navigating a fraught era of silicone implant fear, and the slow, chilling arc from anxious follow-ups to a fixed narrative of betrayal. We also step back to consider what safety looks like now. AI-assisted mammography is catching more interval c...

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70:27

Ep 43-Vengeful Pathologist: the Murderous Anthony...

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2025/12/05

Send us a text 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 training at Creighton, the evaluations that documented poor judgment and disruptive behavior, and the dismissal that he interpreted as sabotage. What follows is a meticulous, evidence‑driven breakdown of how a professional grudge turned int...

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63:54

Ep 42-Ruby McCollum And The Price Of Survival

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2025/11/28

Send us a text 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 brought visibility and risk through the Bolita economy. When a respected physician blurred professional lines and used social power to control her body, Ruby learned to live in two worlds—outward composure and private calculation. Years late...

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