4 episodes
Medical Overkill Brigette Mitchell
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- Health & Fitness
The sad and scary truth behind doctors, medications, and healthcare. My battle with cancer and the medical system that failed me. The reality of how the system works for them and against the patient. My first hand account of my treatment by healthcare workers, including the doctors and specialists and why I feel the need to speak up.
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Helplessness, Hopelessness, &pain
The very real feelings cancer patients have and go through for a variety of different reasons and the reasons I have these feelings and how the doctors and care teams contribute to these feelings.
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Broken: Promises, Trust, & Families
Discusses how doctors are so easily able to look families and patients in their eyes and make promises that will never happen, and how it destroys families in the end.
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Episode 2- How I Got Here
The catalysts that I feel put me where I am today medically speaking. It started at a young age and what the doctors did and all the medications they pumped me full of, which opened the door to my cancer diagnosis.
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Episode 1-When is enough, enough? Is it time to stop treatment?
This episode takes you through a portion of my brutal battle with cancer and finally asking myself are the doctors and the treatments actually helping me or hurting me. It goes into the mistakes made, the bedside manner of providers, and how I ended up in a painful vicious circle.