Healthcare Horrors podcast

Headache? Starve yourself. Stomach Ache? Starve yourself. Any sort of sickness under the sun? Starve yourself. This is exactly the treatment "Doctor" Linda Hazzard would give ALL of her patients. Tune in to this episode of Healthcare Horrors to find out how Linda AKA "The Starvation Doctor" got away with starving people to death. As our Co-Host/Recruiter, Alicia Carosella, says "This might be the...

This week, on Healthcare Horrors, your favorite Healthcare, true-crime podcast, We leave Italy and head to Poland to learn about a "special" ambulance crew made up of two paramedics and two doctors. This crew, and many others like them, find and exploit a slimy way to make money off the death of others. These types of criminals were dubbed by the media as "Skin Hunters." How did it work? What was...

What is going on in Italy? How can this nurse still be free? What do you mean that the "Facts don't stand up?" Daniela Poggiali, the Italian Angel of Death, is accused to have potentially killed 93 people during her time as a nurse. Her weapon of choice? Potassium Chloride.  Fun Fact: The case is still ongoing. - Give this shorter episode of Healthcare Horrors a listen to get caught up and in the...

Ashlee: "What are you even doing?" Alicia: "This is what happens when you graduate from medical school having performed less than 100 surgeries..." Christopher Duntsch, a "spine surgeon," did exactly that, and unfortunately, due to his lack of honesty and actual surgeon skills, many people fell victim. 

Welcome to episode 6 of Healthcare Horrors where our hosts, Ashlee Boyce, a Brand Specialist, at Atlas MedStaff, and Alicia Carosella, a recruiter at Atlas MedStaff, talk about the horrors of... well, you guessed it, HEALTHCARE! Only this time, it takes place in Auschwitz - which was nothing short of a horrifying place. Dr. Josef Mengele, born in "GOONS-burg" (Günzburg), near Ulm, Germany was defi...

WARNING! - The victims of Genene Jones were babies/children. This episode may NOT be for you. Genene Jones had a rough childhood, BUT that doesn't excuse her for her malpractice against, what is estimated, 60+ children. How? What? Why? Find out in this Healthcare Horrors Halloween special with Hosts Ashlee, Alicia, producer Dolan, and super special guest, our friend Jamie Moore Marsh. 

What should you not do if you don't want to get caught after doing something naughty? Googling how to do it _or_, you know, just don't do it at all. Kimberly Saenz was born in the early 70's and had a pretty good childhood. As she became an adult Saenz suffered from substance abuse, poor mental health, and couldn't keep a job. This also led to the divorce of her and her husband and loss of her chi...

When the hospitals won't take you anymore, why not just start your own practice as a private nurse? Jane Toppan was actually born as Honora Kelley in Boston, 1857. Her parents were Irish immigrants. After her mother, Bridget, died of tuberculosis and her father, Peter, was admitted to an insane asylum and tried to sew his eyelids shut, Honora and her sisters were split up to different families. Ho...

There were some rules in the early 1900's when it came to caring for mental patients, but not many. Also, the link between mental illness and the brain was very misunderstood. Walter Freeman was a neurologist in the mid 20th century who wanted to leave behind a great legacy for curing mental illness. He made the history books all right, but not necessarily for doing something great. In this episod...

We kick off the spooky season with one of England's most prolific serial killers from the early 20th century, Harold Fred Shipman, also known as Dr. Death. He primarily killed elderly women by overdosing them with diamorphine and was notorious for altering his victim's death certificate/health records to fit whatever diagnosis or cause of death he saw fit in order to avoid suspicion. Shipman's num...

This is just an overall intro to the podcast about how did we get into liking horror and true crime and we will be talking about.