24 episodes
Pick Your Poison Dr. JP
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- Health & Fitness
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5.0 • 23 Ratings
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Dr. JP shares her passion for poisons in this interactive show. Pick Your Poison is a fast-paced, interactive podcast about poisons and toxins, mischief and murder ranging from ancient history to pop culture. Your choices direct the diagnosis and treatment. Make the wrong choice and our patient won’t survive the podcast.
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Fire in the Rain
Want to know what toxin has killed hundreds of thousands of people, has been associated with the Salem Witch Trials and is the source of modern hallucinogens? Then stay tuned!
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Perilous Waters
Want to know what animal is called the most venomous in the world? If pee is an antidote and how pantyhose makes swimming safer? Listen to find out!
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Therapeutic Misadventures
How you might accidently kill a patient with intubation? Want to know what drug Kafka called the only remedy against the misery of being? The compound that might’ve played a role in Rasputin’s influence over the Romanovs? Listen to find out!
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Culinary Catastrophe
Want to know what favorite poison of Agatha Christie’s is also used as a performance enhancer? What compound was used as rat poison and also in doping during the Tour de France? Listen to find out!
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Gas Station Herbals
Want to know what leaf can cause symptoms of an opioid overdose? Use of what herbal has resulted in liver transplants and also causes a rash called crocodile skin? Listen to find out!
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Desensitized
Want to know what class of drugs is dangerous enough to have been used by a serial killer nurse, but is also in cough drops? What antidote for the life-threatening overdoses caused these drugs is a common nutritional ingredient? Listen to find out!
Customer Reviews
Interesting and enjoyable
Very enjoyable podcasts. Found via another tox podcast and enjoy how it makes me think and will hopefully help me with patient care in the future. (Or preferably patients never need that care, but that is unrealistic)