Medical Media Mixer: The Perfect Cocktail
Medicine is often portrayed in entertainment with questionable accuracy. These women in medicine break it down for you; from the rare diagnosis, to the downright weird, they cover it all. With some drinks and laughs sprinkled in, they take you on a lively tour of medicine in media. If you have ever questioned how healthcare is portrayed in your favorite television show, Tik tok reel, song or movie, or just need a few laughs, tune in to “Medical Media Mixer”, The Perfect Cocktail.
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- Tara Prisco PA-C, M.S. is a Physician Assistant who has been practicing in Internal medicine and Urgent Care for over 20 years. She is passionate about women’s health, autoimmune diseases and preventative care. In her free time she carts two daughters to after school activities, finds time to play board games with her husband, and enjoys reading fantasy and serial killer novels.
- Nicole C. Peniston, Psy.D. is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist and Certified Brain Injury Specialist who has over a decade's experience working with children and adults providing psychotherapy, psychological testing, and diagnosis. She has a particular interest in and experience working in forensics, pediatric psychology, brain injury, and autism evaluation and treatment. She is driven to provide culturally sensitive care, supporting identity diversity and neurodiversity, understanding adoption issues, and has a particular passion for working with children and families. In her free time, she enjoys karaoke, creative writing, reading, listening to podcasts, and binge watching documentaries.
Music Credits:
Intro fun- Music by Vlad Krotov from Pixabay
Bartending foley suite- Sound Effect by Akiva Vita from Pixabay
Episodes
Monday Apr 07, 2025
Monday Apr 07, 2025
In this episode we cover:
The TV Show Grace and Frankie Season 2 Episodes 1 and 2
The TV show Found Season 1 Episode 2
Sources:
Grace and Frankie:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Grace_and_Frankie_episodes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_and_Frankie
https://graceandfrankie.fandom.com/wiki/Season_One
Coronary Artery disease:
https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/155919-overview
https://newsroom.heart.org/file?fid=59f3430a2cfac22ba70b5c22#:~:text=The%20coronary%20arteries%20are%20the,blood%20to%20the%20heart%20muscle.
https://watchlearnlive.heart.org/?moduleSelect=corart
https://www.heart.org/en/health-topics/heart-attack/angina-chest-pain/coronary-microvascular-disease-mvd
https://www.heart.org/en/health-topics/consumer-healthcare/what-is-cardiovascular-disease/coronary-artery-disease#:~:text=The%20traditional%20risk%20factors%20for,the%20risk%20increases%20after%2055.
Risks and Prevention:
https://world-heart-federation.org/what-we-do/prevention/#:~:text=Primary%20prevention%20mainly%20targets%20people,also%20apply%20to%20primary%20prevention.
Cardioprotective medications:
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6946151/#:~:text=Members%20of%20the%20SGLT2i%20class,cardiovascular%20death%20or%20heart%20failure
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6919451/#:~:text=In%20a%20recent%20large%20multicenter,including%20sensitivity%20and%20subgroup%20analyses.
https://www.nice.org.uk/news/articles/statins-a-choice-for-more-people-to-reduce-risk-of-heart-attacks-and-strokes
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20824230/
https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/01.atv.0000032033.39301.6a
https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/circulationaha.117.031164#:~:text=Dual%20antiplatelet%20therapy%20with%20aspirin%20and%20a%20platelet%20P2Y12,which%20switching%20therapies%20may%20occur.
Cardiac Catheterization
https://www.heart.org/en/health-topics/heart-attack/diagnosing-a-heart-attack/cardiac-catheterization
https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/coronary-angioplasty/about/pac-20384761
Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery
https://www.heart.org/-/media/files/health-topics/answers-by-heart/what-is-coronary-bypass-surgery.pdf
https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIR.0000000000001038
Endoscopic Coronary Artery Bypass Graft
https://www.yalemedicine.org/clinical-keywords/totally-endoscopic-coronary-artery-bypass-grafting#:~:text=Totally%20endoscopic%20coronary%20artery%20bypass%20(TECAB)%20grafting%20is%20a%20minimally,to%20traditional%20open%2Dheart%20surgery.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totally_endoscopic_coronary_artery_bypass_surgery#:~:text=Totally%20endoscopic%20coronary%20artery%20bypass%20surgery%20(TECAB)%20is%20an%20entirely,and%20one%20camera%20are%20inserted.
Risk Stratification
https://www.ccjm.org/content/88/9/502
https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/heart-scan/about/pac-20384686
https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/ct-coronary-angiogram/about/pac-20385117#:~:text=A%20CT%20coronary%20angiogram%20mainly,for%20other%20heart%20conditions%20too.
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diagnostics/17376-cardiac-positron-emission-tomography-pet
https://tools.acc.org/ASCVD-Risk-Estimator-Plus/#!/calculate/estimate/
Cocktail
https://www.bargpt.app/ai-cocktail-recipe/eclipse-of-the-heart
Found - agoraphobia - character Zeke Wallace - Season 1 Episode 2 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Found_(TV_series)
https://wholefully.com/the-welcome-home
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/agoraphobia/symptoms-causes/syc-20355987
https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics/agoraphobia
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK554387/
https://psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/ps.50.3.407#:~:text=The%20Epidemiologic%20Catchment%20Area%20(ECA,agoraphobia%20than%20whites%20(2).
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Steven-Friedman-7/publication/285080641_Clinical_and_sociocultural_differences_in_African_American_and_Caucasian_patients_with_panic_disorder_and_agoraphobia/links/5a7b155e0f7e9bef43c4e431/Clinical-and-sociocultural-differences-in-African-American-and-Caucasian-patients-with-panic-disorder-and-agoraphobia.pdf
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0165032723003348#:~:text=Over%20one%20in%20five%20African,et%20al.%2C%202009).
Music Credits:
Intro fun- Music by Vlad Krotov from Pixabay
Bartending foley suite- Sound Effect by Akiva Vita from Pixabay
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Monday Mar 31, 2025
Monday Mar 31, 2025
In this episode we cover:
Brain on Fire- oth the book and the movie
Outlander episodes 405 and 406
Sources:
Brain on Fire - book and movie
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_on_Fire
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_on_Fire_(film)
https://www.med.upenn.edu/autoimmuneneurology/nmdar-encephalitis.html#:~:text=Anti%2DNMDA%20receptor%20encephalitis%20is,NMDA%20receptors%20in%20the%20brain.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK551672/
https://www.antinmdafoundation.org/the-illness/what-is-anti-nmda-receptor-encephalitis/
Cocktail:
https://tipsybartender.com/recipe/brain-on-fire-shot#google_vignette
Outlander;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outlander_(TV_series)
https://www.outlanderanatomy.com/anatomy-lesson-63-measles/
https://ew.com/recap/outlander-season-4-episode-6
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https://www.outlandercast.com/2020/06/contagion-in-outlander.html
https://variety.com/2018/tv/recaps/outlander-recap-season-4-episode-6-blood-of-my-blood-1203082938/
Measles:
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/measles
https://www.who.int/news-room/spotlight/history-of-vaccination/history-of-measles-vaccination
https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/966220-overview?&icd=login_success_email_match_fpf
https://asm.org/articles/2019/may/measles-and-immune-amnesia
https://www.dshs.texas.gov/news-alerts/measles-outbreak-feb-21-2025
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outlander_(TV_series)
https://www.cdc.gov/measles/hcp/vaccine-considerations/index.html
https://www.cdc.gov/measles/data-research/index.html
https://www.cdc.gov/measles/about/history-of-measles.html
Cocktail:
The Mango Mojito refresher (MMR):
https://vanillaandbean.com/mango-mojito/
Music Credits:
Intro fun- Music by Vlad Krotov from Pixabay
Bartending foley suite- Sound Effect by Akiva Vita from Pixabay
Website:
https://medicalmediamixer.podbean.com/
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Monday Mar 24, 2025
Monday Mar 24, 2025
In this episode we cover:
Scrubs Season 5 Episode 20 “My Lunch”
The TV show Severance
The movie Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Scrubs:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrubs_(TV_series)
https://scrubs.fandom.com/wiki/My_Lunch
Organ Donation
https://www.organdonor.gov/learn/process
https://www.organdonor.gov/sign-up/how
Rabies:
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa043018
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/rabies
https://www.cdc.gov/rabies/about/index.html
https://www.cdc.gov/rabies/hcp/clinical-overview/index.html
Health Department Directories:
https://www.cdc.gov/public-health-gateway/php/communications-resources/health-department-directories.html?CDC_AAref_Val=https://www.cdc.gov/publichealthgateway/healthdirectories/index.html
Cocktail:
http://www.idrink.com/v.html?id=47058#google_vignette
Severance & Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind - erasing memory to improve function
Mind Eraser Cocktail Recipe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_Sunshine_of_the_Spotless_Mind - 2004 Joel (Jim Carey) and Clementine (Kate Winslet) each elect to have memories of each other erased after they breakup - what is the impact of erasing emotional memories - good and bad; are the emotions really erased or just the content of the association - other chars Mary (Kirsten Dunst) and Howard (Tom Wilkinson) and Joel and Clementine finding each other again
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severance_(TV_series)
Season 1 released 2022 on Apple+, Season 2 2025 Mark (Adam Scott) elects to become a severed employee (medical implant separates work life from home life = Innie vs. Outie) after his wife Gemma dies. Mark wants to figure out what Lumon is up to and why, what happened to former co-worker Petey, and “reintegration” of selves for coworkers Helly, Dylan, and Irving.
Memory - https://www.health.harvard.edu/topics/memory
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK234153/
https://qbi.uq.edu.au/memory/where-are-memories-stored#:~:text=Memories%20aren't%20stored%20in,heavily%20on%20the%20prefrontal%20cortex.
Split-brain science - https://academic.oup.com/brain/article/140/5/1231/2951052
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7305066/#:~:text=Thus%2C%20it%20seems%20that%20in,the%20response%20that%20is%20required.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-neuroscience-of-severance-whats-real-whats-fake/#:~:text=First%2C%20it's%20not%20just%20episodic,the%20issues%20affecting%20our%20world.
https://aperture.byu.edu/?p=35
Connection between emotions and memory and how they influence each other
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6198111/
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5573739/
https://www.inc.com/nick-hobson/neuroscience-says-you-can-improve-your-memory-with-emotion-but-theres-1-important-catch.html
Music Credits:
Intro fun- Music by Vlad Krotov from Pixabay
Bartending foley suite- Sound Effect by Akiva Vita from Pixabay
Website:
https://medicalmediamixer.podbean.com/
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Monday Mar 17, 2025
Monday Mar 17, 2025
In this Episode We cover:
The NPR Podcast Episode and article “Seeing Imposters: When Loved Ones Suddenly Aren’t
And
Doogie Howser Season 1 Episode 3 “A Stitch Called Wanda”
Sources:
Capgras
The Imposter - https://www.nerdfriday.com/post/51820442120/the-imposter-recipe-by-sabrina-eldredge-of-nerd
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK570557/#:~:text=Capgras%20syndrome%20(CS)%2C%20or,someone%20significant%20to%20the%20patient.
https://www.lbda.org/blog/capgras-syndrome-in-lewy-body-dementias-lbd-associated-with-anxiety-and-hallucinations/
https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/basics/capgras-syndrome
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2773021223000044
Podcast/article - https://www.npr.org/2010/03/30/124745692/seeing-impohttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2773021223000044stors-when-loved-ones-suddenly-arent
Rare disorders - “Delusion of doubles” think loved ones/familiar ones are imposters/impersonators - can come from dementia, TBI, schizophrenia, epilepsy,etc . Delusional misidentification Recognize the face (NOT face blindness), but believe it is not the same person; can also misidentify items; 1920 French psychiatrist Joseph Capgras; impairment of visual system
Doogie Howser:
https://doogiehowser.fandom.com/wiki/A_Stitch_Called_Wanda
https://simkl.com/tv/1707/doogie-howser-md/episode-3/#google_vignette
Appendicitis
https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/773895-overview
Cocktail:
https://www.absolutdrinks.com/en/drinks/appendicitis-de-luxe/
Music Credits:
Intro fun- Music by Vlad Krotov from Pixabay
Bartending foley suite- Sound Effect by Akiva Vita from Pixabay
Website:
https://medicalmediamixer.podbean.com/
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Email:
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Monday Mar 10, 2025
Monday Mar 10, 2025
In this episode we cover:
The new sitcom St. Denis
And
The TV show High Potential
Sources:
St. Denis:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Denis_Medical
https://www.pluggedin.com/tv-reviews/st-denis-medical/
Studies on Happiness in Healthcare Workers:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-020-00592-x
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7537441/#:~:text=Previous%20studies%20have%20illustrated%20that,care%20staff%20through%20job%20commitment.&text=Care%20communities%20with%20highly%20committed,and%20choice%20in%20various%20activities.&text=Similarly%2C%20committed%20care%20workers%20are,appropriate%20communication%20among%20care%20communities.&text=It%20has%20been%20reported%20that,higher%20satisfaction%20and%20well%2Dbeing.&text=Higher%20job%20satisfaction%20and%20global,satisfaction%20and%20happiness%20with%20care.&text=However%2C%20little%20is%20known%20regarding,elderly%20people%20with%20severe%20disabilities.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5598781/#:~:text=Decreased%20well%2Dbeing%20of%20health,association%20with%20wellbeing%20and%20happiness.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-77493-5
How we can improve:
https://comphealth.com/resources/improving-physician-well-being
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5628042/
https://www.aafp.org/pubs/fpm/blogs/inpractice/entry/physician_career_satisfaction.html
https://kevinmd.com/2023/10/achieving-happiness-practical-strategies-for-physicians.html
Cocktail:
https://provider.thriveap.com/blog/bottoms-8-themed-cocktails-nurses-week#:~:text=Code%20Blue&text=To%20create%20this%20code%2Dworthy,to%20coat%20lightly%20before%20serving.
High IQ/High Potential Intellectual and High Emotional Potential
Hulu 2023 - Morgan Gillory (Kristin Olson) has an IQ of 160, considered a high potential intellectual, but is a single mom with three kids working as a cleaning lady before being hired as a consultant for the LAPD
Advanced cognitive abilities, photographic memory (recall visual details with high accuracy vs. eidetic memory - see the image) intellectual creativity, detail oriented, high processing speed, sarcasm, visual spatial reasoning/memory
Son has high intelligence - genetic link? - https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5985927/
Downfall - obsess over problems, insomnia, mind spinning, job/relationship/conversations hard to hold, arrested in past,
IQ, Cocktail Recipe ➦ INSHAKER — Inshaker
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14060708/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Potential
https://www.simplypsychology.org/eidetic-memory-vs-photographic-memory.html
https://www.c2.care/en/high-intellectual-potential/
https://www.polytechnique-insights.com/en/columns/health-and-biotech/hpi-gifted-zebra-whats-the-scientific-reality-behind-these-terms/
https://collider.com/high-potential-intellectual-real/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_giftedness
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8699491/
Music Credits:
Intro fun- Music by Vlad Krotov from Pixabay
Bartending foley suite- Sound Effect by Akiva Vita from Pixabay
Website:
https://medicalmediamixer.podbean.com/
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Monday Mar 03, 2025
Monday Mar 03, 2025
In this episode we cover the documentary:
Don’t Die: The Man Who Wants to Live Forever
Sources:
Forever Young Cocktail: https://www.totalwine.com/cocktail-recipes/forever-young
Mormonism - https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/29/us/mormon-beliefs-explained-cec/index.html
LDS is one sect of Mormonism; Book of Mormon vs. Bible, christianity, missionary work, abstinence from coffee, alcohol, premarital sex, historically against LGBTQIA+ and non-white members
Spiritual Crisis - https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/out-the-darkness/202008/spiritual-depression
Alienation from community, family, children, “midlife crisis”
Work-Life Balance - https://www.mhanational.org/work-life-balance
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6617405/#:~:text=Epidemiological%20studies%20have%20shown%20the,mental%20health%20status%2C%20hypertension%2C%20and
Heart disease, depression, anxiety, chronic fatigue, poor sleep, substance use, high blood pressure, general poor health (diet, exercise, fresh air)
Suicidal Ideation - https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/symptoms/suicidal-ideation
Relationship with son Talmadge - Parental Enmeshment
https://www.attachmentproject.com/psychology/enmeshment/family/#:~:text=For%20children%2C%20enmeshment%20can%20lead,comply%20with%20their%20family's%20wishes.
Overcompensation for loss of other children/marriage/family/community
Trauma from childhood - alcoholic father https://adultchildren.org/
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6436308/
Moving toward healing the relationship with father and son - plasma exchange, photo shoot, involvement in longevity movement
Addictive personality and replacement addictions - religion - work - health - some controversy regarding replacement addiction https://www.mayoclinichealthsystem.org/hometown-health/speaking-of-health/do-you-have-addictive-personality-traits-video
Metformin:
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6779524/
Human Growth Hormone:
https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/healthy-aging/in-depth/growth-hormone/art-2004573
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Rapamycin:
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanhl/article/PIIS2666-7568(23)00258-1/fulltext
Plasma:
https://www.fda.gov/vaccines-blood-biologics/safety-availability-biologics/important-information-about-young-donor-plasma-infusions-profit#:~:text=There%20is%20no%20proven%20clinical,the%20body%20and%20difficult%20breathing.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6694331/#:~:text=Age%20is%20the%20primary%20risk,that%20derive%20from%20these%20observations.
Gene therapy:
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10017145/
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5240576/#:~:text=After%208%20weeks%20of%20treatment,two%20years%20after%20gene%20transfer.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2852878/#:~:text=In%20a%20previous%20study%2C%20we,increased%20muscle%20mass%20and%20strength.
Global life expectancy:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1303775/global-life-expectancy-by-region-country-historical/
Blue zones:
https://www.bluezones.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_zone
What we can do to extend life:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_extension
https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/longevity-lifestyle-strategies-for-living-a-healthy-long-life#:~:text=What%20you%20eat%20has%20a,repair%20or%20replace%20damaged%20cells.
Cocktail:
https://www.twistedalchemy.com/blogs/cocktail-recipes/elixir-of-immortality?srsltid=AfmBOorpjWBnzyLlpE0EM6QPwKdZY4LCD1iBO0sDRvHXHdJHKKyJ_m8m
Music Credits:
Intro fun- Music by Vlad Krotov from Pixabay
Bartending foley suite- Sound Effect by Akiva Vita from Pixabay
Website:
https://medicalmediamixer.podbean.com/
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Monday Feb 24, 2025
Monday Feb 24, 2025
In this episode we cover:
Simone Biles: Rising - Netflix 2024
and
Call the Midwife Christmas Specials from 2013 and 2016
The Fly Girl Spritzer using Black Girl Magic wines - https://www.mcbridesisters.com/blogs/eat-drink/cocktail-recipe-fly-girl-spritzer?srsltid=AfmBOopqq5eAw0oOZBjYHlyhHAVlM3GebvzMwJPbzWvXvAbVOsWwxksl
Simone Biles: Rising - Netflix 2024
https://www.netflix.com/title/81700902
Black excellence overcoming trauma/hardship vs. media focusing solely on trauma as a definition aspect of the Black experience
Summer 2020 Tokyo Olympics drama - context: COVID-19, no crowd, no family, daily testing and worry about infection
The “Twisties” - https://time.com/7004666/what-are-the-twisties-gymnastics-cause-treatments-simone-biles-condition/
https://www.snexplores.org/article/simone-biles-twisties-gymnastics-olympics-explainer
Baseline danger of the sport, no protective equipment, feeling “in jail in my body, deaf”, add the speed and power of her athleticism
Try not to die
“Invisible” problem
1 ½ yrs before returned to full training
Optimal anxiety - https://www.healthline.com/health/yerkes-dodson-law#stress-performance-bell-curve
Social negativity and media pressure before, during, and after
Abandoning team, loser, quitter, making excuses, “doesn’t feel like it,” a failure, a drop out, a disappointment, life lessons not to give up
Pressure, mental, and physical stress
For team, for the country, other countries rooting for her
Still won Bronze on Balance Beam
Male response vs. female response differential?
History of gymnastics in the USA
Older athletes until Nadia Comenici and the Karoli Era of training
Kerri Shrug
Push through injury - long term effect
Sexual abuse scandal
Trauma response
Limited diversity
Youth and diversity in the sport vs. other sports
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2024/08/06/nx-s1-5064419/womens-gymnastics-ages-simone-biles-olympics
https://static.usagym.org/PDFs/Events/24olympics/diversity.pdf
First american black woman to complete was in 1992 and 1996 - often in the shadows of white competitors
First american black woman to win a gold - 2012
https://www.suzansong.com/fieldnotes/the-resistance-amp-repair-of-simone-biles
Retirement due to career ending injury vs. on own terms
Work-life balance for athletes
Mental health
Courage, certainty vs. doubt, emotional/mental strength, confidence, fear, trust in self and abilities, trust in coaches, in equipment
Post-competition depression - adrenaline
Sports psychology - https://www.apa.org/ed/graduate/specialize/sports#:~:text=Sport%20psychology%20is%20a%20proficiency,with%20sports%20settings%20and%20organizations
Positive self talk, visualization, optimal levels of anxiety
Social support
Limits on social media, interviews, etc
History of trauma
Foster care, mother’s substance abuse, separation from 3 siblings
Adoption by grandparents
2020 and 2024 GOAT controversy
When is it enough
5 skills named after her, only one has been able to be performed by another athlete
Skill level difficulty - can make mistakes and still outrank others perfect performances
First “true competition” in Rebecca Andraje from Brazil - good sportsmanship - tension and competition but also cheering each other on
Expectations to always win, then always finding fault - if not performance than in appearance, relationship, attitude, etc
Call The Midwife:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_the_Midwife
https://callthemidwife.fandom.com/wiki/Christmas_Special_2016
https://callthemidwife.fandom.com/wiki/Christmas_Special_2013
https://callthemidwife.fandom.com/wiki/Timothy_Turner
Polio:
https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/306440-overview?&icd=login_success_email_match_fpf
https://insights.som.yale.edu/insights/why-polio-is-making-comeback
https://www.cdc.gov/polio/about/index.html
https://www.cdc.gov/polio/site.html
https://www.who.int/health-topics/poliomyelitis#tab=tab_1
RFK:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/17/health/robert-f-kennedy-jr-polio-vaccines.html
Cocktail:
https://www.milehighmitts.com/orange-thunder/
https://www.thrillist.com/recipe/campari-organge-cocktail-recipe
Music Credits:
Intro fun- Music by Vlad Krotov from Pixabay
Bartending foley suite- Sound Effect by Akiva Vita from Pixabay
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Survey:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2QDS9PZ
Monday Feb 17, 2025
Monday Feb 17, 2025
In this episode we cover:
- The Power by Naomi Alderman (book) and series on Amazon Prime
- It's Not Hysteria: Everything You Need to Know About Your Reproductive Health (But Were Never Told) Book by Dr Karen Tang
- The Menopause Manifesto: Own Your Health with Facts and Feminism, Book by Jen Gunter
- Our Bodies Ourselves, Book by the Boston Women's Health Book Collective
Sources:
Cocktail: Shades of Pink https://empressgin.com/cocktail/shades-of-pink/
The Power by Naomi Alderman (book) and series on Amazon Prime
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_(Alderman_novel) 2016
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_(TV_series) 2023 Amazon Prime
https://screenrant.com/the-power-season-2-updates-everything-we-know/
Violence against women - child abuse, sex trade/human trafficking, intimate partner violence
https://www.thehotline.org/stakeholders/domestic-violence-statistics/
https://humantraffickinghotline.org/en/statistics
https://www.ijm.org/our-work/violence-women-children
Oppression - social, political, financial, physical, spiritual
https://www.amnesty.org/en/what-we-do/discrimination/womens-rights/
Women’s health - “sterilization” of the power, understanding women’s health and organ development, clinical trials
https://publichealthreviews.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40985-017-0060-9
https://www.hrw.org/news/2011/11/10/sterilization-women-and-girls-disabilities
https://www.aamc.org/news/why-we-know-so-little-about-women-s-health
Women and rage
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/22/arts/television/tv-female-rage-beef.html
Women as sexual beings, lesbianism
Women as allies - awakening The Power in each other
Men as allies
Reversal of social roles
Intersex https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/16324-intersex
Movie only covers about half of the book; chaos and the corruption of power
Author mentored by Margaret Atwood (Handmaid's Tale)
Health Literacy:
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5175428/
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10826516/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0884217515302197
https://www.acog.org/clinical/clinical-guidance/committee-opinion/articles/2016/10/health-literacy-to-promote-quality-of-care
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1494879/
The Wellness Industry:
https://www-2.rotman.utoronto.ca/insightshub/healthcare-life-sciences/patriarchal-wellness-industria
https://www.businessinsider.com/rina-raphael-gospel-of-wellness-alternative-medicine-supplements-natural-organic-2022-10
Our Bodies Ourselves:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Bodies,_Ourselves
https://ourbodiesourselves.org/history-legacy#:~:text=Since%201970%2C%20Our%20Bodies%20Ourselves,women%20who%20have%20read%20it.
Cocktail:
https://www.lovebakesgoodcakes.com/pink-for-cure-cocktail-cookingforacure/
Music Credits:
Intro fun- Music by Vlad Krotov from Pixabay
Bartending foley suite- Sound Effect by Akiva Vita from Pixabay
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Monday Feb 10, 2025
Monday Feb 10, 2025
In this episode we cover:
The movie “Bug” and The documentary Skin Deep: The Battle Over Morgellons
Sources:
Movie:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3920274/plotsummary/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bug_(2006_film)
Delusional Parasitosis:
https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1121818-overview
Scabies:
https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1109204-overview
Lice:
https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/225013-overview
Bedbugs:
https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1088931-overview
Myiasis:
https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1491170-treatment
Cutaneous larva migrans:
https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1108784-overview?_gl=1*kyvssb*_gcl_au*MTYwMjM5MTE3OS4xNzI5MDEzODQ5
https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1108784-overview?_gl=1*kyvssb*_gcl_au*MTYwMjM5MTE3OS4xNzI5MDEzODQ5
Bug Punch Mocktail:
https://brooklynactivemama.com/bug-punch-halloween-mocktail-drink/
Midori Bug punch
https://www.acouplecooks.com/midori-sour/
Cocktail: Fuzzy Navel https://www.liquor.com/recipes/fuzzy-navel/
Skin Deep: The Battle Over Morgellons - Amazon Prime October 2019 Documentary
https://www.morgellonsmovie.org/
https://www.today.com/health/joni-mitchell-health-morgellons-rcna136955
https://www.mayoclinic.org/delusional-parasitosis/art-20044996
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgellons
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5811176/
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3047951/
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/illness-anxiety-disorder/symptoms-causes/syc-20373782
Delusions of parasitosis vs. hypochondriasis/illness anxiety disorder
https://www.health.state.mn.us/diseases/pests/dp.html
Reported symptoms: low grade flu symptoms, swelling, headaches, anxiety, fatigue, brain fog, painful sores/lesions, “pop rocks under the skin,” colored fibers/filaments embedded under the skin’s surface, sensory sensitivity on/under the skin, itching
Dr. Felman - derm w/6mos psychiatry - non-believer; talk about how to be a better patient, attends conference and sees research, still believes it to be psychosis
Orap - medication for delusions - https://www.drugs.com/mtm/orap.html
Cindy Casey Holman, RN & husband Charles - patient and advocates
Harry Quinn Schone, PhD, medical historian, author of Contested Illnesses in Context
Disease responsibility/agency over illness, met with suspicion, distrust, derision
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/denying-the-grave/201906/how-should-we-treat-contested-illnesses
Timothy Berger, MS dermatologist and John Koo, MD psychiatrist and dermatologist
Internet-associated disorder, “group organized itself,” compared to Agent Orange and Bosnian War nuclear bullets https://www.publichealth.va.gov/exposures/agentorange/
https://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/07/world/radiation-from-balkan-bombing-alarms-europe.html
“Matchbox” evidence, folie a deux, folie a famille https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2919794/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2824986/
Edward Hu, former federal attorney, patient and brother Brian Hu, MD - family conflict over symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment
Nerve pain, word finding difficulty, tremors, gross motor issues, gastrointestinal issues, electrical interference, wash with a scraping stone, improved with antibiotic treatment
Ginger Savely, DNP, Lyme specialist, recommends antibiotic treatment
Burning hairs off face with a lighter
Patient using DDT for treatment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDT
Mary Leitao - coined term Morgellons in 2002 after son had symptoms and she was accused of Munchausen by Proxy; research from Sir Thomas Browne (1690)
Connection to Lyme - spirochetes
Raphael B. Stricker, MD internist and Melissa McEltroy Fesler, NP and Marianne Middleveen, MDES - long term doxycycline for Lyme is safe?
Theory: Fibers are made of collagen and keratin, overproduced in mass quantities
Similar to Bovine Digital Dermatitis
CDC Task Force, $600,000, Kaiser Permanente, and 4 years; research flawed due to definition of research? Large local population with morgellons
Mental health impact - isolation, distress, abandonment, disbelief, desperation, 800x more likely to commit suicide?
Somatoform disorder, psychosomatic disorder vs. somatopsychic disorder
Spirochetal infection can cause psychiatric symptoms
Bipolar, anxiety, depression comorbid
Syphilis was considered psychosomatic until research
Guy with 60 billion worms in his groin
Confirmation bias or exclusionary bias; fact vs. emotion/belief in psychology
The way of treating certain pain syndromes in psychology (AMPS/fibromyalgia)
Music Credits:
Intro fun- Music by Vlad Krotov from Pixabay
Bartending foley suite- Sound Effect by Akiva Vita from Pixabay
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Monday Feb 03, 2025
Monday Feb 03, 2025
In this episode we cover
The Empyrean book series by Rebecca Yarros
The book “Blood Orange Night: My Journey to The Edge of Madness by Melissa Bond
Sources:
Empyrean series:
https://screenrant.com/fourth-wing-book-violet-sorrengail-condition-ehlers-danlos-syndrome/
https://www.health.com/rebecca-yarros-fourth-wing-interview-7569752
https://cyda.org.au/dragons-magic-ehlers-danlos-syndrome/
https://the-empyrean-series.fandom.com/wiki/The_Empyrean_Series#:~:text=The%20Empyrean%20series%20is%20the,series%20by%20author%20Rebecca%20Yarros.
Cocktail:
https://thebookcasebeauty.com/2023/11/04/youll-be-the-wingleader-of-book-club-with-this-fourth-wing-inspired-cocktail/
Ehlers Danlos (EDS)
https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1114004-overview
https://www.ehlers-danlos.com/what-is-eds/
Insomniac cocktail - https://drinkinghobby.com/insomniac-cocktail-recipe/
Blood Orange Night - June 2022 - https://www.melissaabond.com/blood-orange-night
Insomnia - https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/insomnia/symptoms-causes/syc-20355167
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10887463/
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/12119-insomnia
Fatal insomnia - https://rarediseases.org/rare-diseases/fatal-familial-insomnia/
Music Credits:
Intro fun- Music by Vlad Krotov from Pixabay
Bartending foley suite- Sound Effect by Akiva Vita from Pixabay
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