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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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 Jan 27, 2025
Monday Jan 27, 2025
In this episode we cover
The music video for :
November Rain by Guns and Roses
The song:
“Choreomania” by Florence and the Machine
Sources
ATWWD episode 400
This podcast will kill you episode 40
Song:
https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/florencethemachine/choreomania.html
https://www.songfacts.com/facts/florence-the-machine/choreomania
Choreomania (dancing plagues)
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20220512-the-people-who-danced-themselves-to-death
https://www.history.com/news/what-was-the-dancing-plague-of-1518\
https://www.britannica.com/event/dancing-plague-of-1518
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9242030/
https://www.britannica.com/art/tarantella
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0033350697000346?via%3Dihub
https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-dancing-plague-of-1518/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK430923/
Ergot:
https://asm.org/articles/2018/november/from-poisoning-to-pharmacy-a-tale-of-two-ergots
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6640538/
Levodopa
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/pharmacology-toxicology-and-pharmaceutical-science/levodopa-induced-dyskinesia#:~:text=Levodopa%2Dinduced%20dyskinesia%20can%20be,postures%2C%20which%20is%20termed%20distonia.
Huntingtons:
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/huntingtons-disease/diagnosis-treatment/drc-20356122
Syndenham Chorea:
https://www.ninds.nih.gov/health-information/disorders/sydenham-chorea
Mass psychogenic illness:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/2BDC2262E104B8A33F3DD49773DA0D8B/S0007125000268578a.pdf/protean_nature_of_mass_sociogenic_illness.pdf
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC543940/#r1-23
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC543940/
Tardive dyskinesia:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK448207/#:~:text=Tardive%20dyskinesia%20(TD)%20is%20a,and%20other%20abnormal%20involuntary%20movements.
Mirror neurons:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_neuron
Cocktail:
https://imbibemagazine.com/recipe/dancing-queen-a-blackberry-cocktail/
Suffering Bastard Cocktail: https://www.alcoholprofessor.com/blog-posts/blog/2017/09/12/classic-cocktails-in-history-suffering-bastard
Song/ Video:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_Rain
https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/gunsnroses/novemberrain.html
Suicide:
https://afsp.org/suicide-statistics/
https://publichealth.jhu.edu/center-for-gun-violence-solutions/2023/cdc-provisional-data-gun-suicides-reach-all-time-high-in-2022-gun-homicides-down-slightly-from-2021
https://sprc.org/tools/resources-survivors-suicide-loss/
https://988lifeline.org/help-yourself/loss-survivors/
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/
Social Media Links:
https://linktr.ee/MedicalMediaMixer
Monday Jan 20, 2025
Monday Jan 20, 2025
In this episode we cover:
House Season 4 episode 8 “You Don’t Want to Know”
The movie “Beyond the Universe”
The documentary: “Selena Gomez: My Mind and Me”
House Wiki https://house.fandom.com/wiki/You_Don%27t_Want_to_Know
IMDB https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0412142/
Up to date https://www.uptodate.com/contents/transesophageal-echocardiography-indications-complications-and-normal-views
Mayo Clkinic https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/heart-failure/symptoms-causes/syc-20373142
CDC https://www.cdc.gov/aspergillosis/about/index.html
Cleveland clinic https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/14770-aspergillosis
Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_Turner%27s_sign
Mayo Clinic https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/intestinal-ischemia/symptoms-causes/syc-20373946
Cleavland clinic https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/13464-nosebleed-epistaxis
Medscape https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/330717-overview
Penn medicine https://www.pennmedicine.org/for-patients-and-visitors/find-a-program-or-service/heart-and-vascular/interventional-cardiology/testing-and-diagnosis/heart-biopsy#:~:text=Makes%20a%20small%20incision%20in,small%20sample%20of%20heart%20tissue
Medscape https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/230923-overview
Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sense_of_impending_doom
NIH https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK2265/#:~:text=Acute%20hemolytic%20transfusion%20reactions%20occur,in%20the%20back%20and%20flanks.
Mayo clinic https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/amyloidosis/symptoms-causes/syc-20353178#:~:text=Amyloidosis%20(am%2Duh%2Dloi,nervous%20system%20and%20digestive%20tract.
Medscape https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/335414-overview#a11
Medscape https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/243492-clinical#b3
Medline plus https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/001303.htm
Dermnet https://dermnetnz.org/topics/pseudomonas-skin-infections#:~:text=Pseudomonas%20aeruginosa%20is%20commonly%20found,not%20normally%20develop%20pseudomonas%20infection.
OSHA https://www.osha.gov/laws-regs/standardinterpretations/2006-05-17-1#:~:text=However%2C%20OSHA's%20bloodborne%20pathogens%20standard,)(2)(ix)%5D.
Red cross https://www.redcrossblood.org/donate-blood/blood-types.html
The Lancet https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(07)60099-3/fulltext
Lupus foundation of America https://www.lupus.org/resources/what-is-systemic-lupus-erythematosus-sle
Mayo clinic https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/lupus/symptoms-causes/syc-20365789
https://tipsybartender.com/recipe/the-purple-rain-cocktail
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selena_Gomez:_My_Mind_%26_Me
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond_the_Universe_(2022_film)
https://www.eatingwell.com/recipe/7906800/sparkling-strawberry-ginger-lemonade/
https://www.liquor.com/recipes/anti-inflammatory/
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/lupus-psychosis#summary
https://www.hss.edu/conditions_neuropsychiatric-sle-lupus-and-brain.asp#:~:text=The%20most%20common%20manifestations%20of,sudden%20confusion%20and%2For%20psychosis
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9903299/#:~:text=Major%20depression%20and%20cognitive%20dysfunction,lead%20to%20impaired%20occupational%20functioning.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6353684/
https://www.jrd.or.kr/journal/view.html?uid=1378&vmd=Full
https://www.webmd.com/lupus/ss/great-mental-health-exercises
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/
Social Media Links:
https://linktr.ee/MedicalMediaMixer
Monday Jan 13, 2025
Monday Jan 13, 2025
** Thanks for listening to our new podcast! We know that early episodes have some sound quality issues- but we worked on it! Keep on listening- it just gets better and better!**
In this episode we cover the following songs:
Paint It Black by The Rolling Stones, 1966
Everybody Hurts by REM, 1992
Before I Go by Billie Eilish, 2019
Cat Scratch Fever by Ted Nugent, 1977
A Little Bit Longer by the Jonas Brothers, 2008
A Spoonful of Sugar but Julie Andrews, 1964
Sources:
Cocktail:
https://www.rumtherapy.com/2015/09/tropical-depression-drink/#google_vignette
Songs:
https://genius.com/The-rolling-stones-paint-it-black-lyrics
https://genius.com/Rem-everybody-hurts-lyrics
https://genius.com/Billie-eilish-listen-before-i-go-lyrics
Songs:
https://americansongwriter.com/meaning-behind-the-lusty-song-cat-scratch-fever-by-ted-nugent/
https://www.songfacts.com/facts/ted-nugent/cat-scratch-fever
https://ultimateclassicrock.com/ted-nugent-detroit-muscle-interview/
https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/jonasbrothers/alittlebitlongeryoudontevenknow.html
https://www.songfacts.com/facts/jonas-brothers/a-little-bit-longer
https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/burlives/aspoonfulofsugar.html
https://www.songfacts.com/facts/julie-andrews/a-spoonful-of-sugar
Cat Scratch fever (bartonella)
https://www.cdc.gov/bartonella/about/about-bartonella-henselae.html
Type 1 Diabetes:
https://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/about/about-type-1-diabetes.html
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/type-1-diabetes/symptoms-causes/syc-20353011#:~:text=Age.,10%20and%2014%20years%20old.
Medical uses for sugar:
https://www.cincinnatichildrens.org/patients/vaccines/our-history#:~:text=Such%20efforts%20to%20inoculate%20kids,vaccine%20on%20cubes%20of%20sugar.
https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/775746-overview
https://www.acponline.org/membership/medical-students/acp-impact/archive/may-2020/a-sweet-success-osmotic-reduction-of-prolapsed-stoma-using-table-sugar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heqLn2PM7io
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/
Social Media Links:
https://linktr.ee/MedicalMediaMixer
Tuesday Dec 24, 2024
Tuesday Dec 24, 2024
** Thanks for listening to our new podcast! We know that early episodes have some sound quality issues- but we worked on it! Keep on listening- it just gets better and better!**
In this episode we cover:
Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman Season 1, episode 2 "Epidemic"
and
Girls Season 2 Episode 8 "It's Back" and Episode 9 "On All Fours"
Sources:
Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman:
https://drquinn.fandom.com/wiki/Dr._Quinn_Medicine_Woman_Wiki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Quinn,_Medicine_Woman
https://drquinn.fandom.com/wiki/Epidemic
Influenza:
https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/219557-overview
https://sph.umich.edu/pursuit/2020posts/how-scientists-quantify-outbreaks.html
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0753332220313317#:~:text=In%201918%2C%20quinine%20was%20used,fever%20since%20the%20seventeenth%20century.
https://reference.medscape.com/drug/qualaquin-quinine-342696#0
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7689621/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quinine#:~:text=In%201832%2C%20using%20quinine%20derived,the%20Missouri%20and%20Mississippi%20valleys.
https://www.cdc.gov/flu-burden/php/about/faq.html#:~:text=CDC%20estimates%20the%20number%20of,from%20seasonal%20flu%20each%20year.
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/flu-vs-covid19.html
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/vaccine-types/index.html?s_cid=SEM.GA:PAI:RG_AO_GA_TM_A18_F-FLU-VaccineTypes-Brd:different%20flu%20vaccines:SEM00120&utm_id=SEM.GA:PAI:RG_AO_GA_TM_A18_F-FLU-VaccineTypes-Brd:different%20flu%20vaccines:SEM00120&gad_source=1
https://www.xofluza-hcp.com/
https://www.rapivab.com/
https://www.nccih.nih.gov/health/echinacea
https://www.cdc.gov/bird-flu/situation-summary/index.html
Cocktail:
https://www.liquor.com/recipes/americano/
Cocktail:
https://www.orangecountydistillery.com/brownbarnfarms
Girls:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girls_(TV_series)
OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder)
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/24526-obsessive-compulsive-personality-disorder-ocpd
https://iocdf.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/OCPD-Fact-Sheet.pdf