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Pick Your Poison
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.
Episodes
78 episodes
Short Circuit : A Medical Mystery of Seizures and Poisoning
A routine medication turns catastrophic when a patient's brain loses its brakes. Why won't the seizures stop? What hidden diagnosis is everyone missing? And what life-saving antidote has to be given before it's too late? Join Dr. JP as you inve...
Green Fairy: Psychosis at the Absinthe Bar
A notorious green spirit served in a Belle Époque bar. A violent patient hallucinating and fighting invisible enemies. And a medical myth linked to some of history’s most famous artists.Your patient. Your diagnosis. Your decision.
Wild Mistake: A Deadly Foraging Mystery
A harmless-looking plant gathered for a wilderness dinner. An ancient remedy for madness associated with Heracles. And a flower carrying the same kind of cardiac poison found in toxic toads.Your patient. Your diagnosis. Your decision.
Poisoned Paper: The Prison Contraband Mystery
A normal conversation followed by unconsciousness within minutes. A drug abandoned as too dangerous for medicine but reborn on the illicit market. And prison contraband hidden on an apparently blank sheet of paper.Your patient. Your diag...
Breathless: The Paleolithic Hazard Hiding in Modern Kitchens
Want to know what toxin has been killing workers since Paleolithic times—and is hiding in modern kitchens? The ancient Romans called it a widow-maker… because husbands died so quickly, some women had as many as seven. Liste...
Burning Desire: Insect toxin, aphrodisiac, and poison
An animal that poisons without biting or stinging. An infamous aphrodisiac behind centuries of terrible decisions. And a blistering substance used as a murder weapon.Your patient. Your diagnosis. Your decision.An intera...
Cold Fire: Poison that can combust in the ER
A poison that can burst into flame in the emergency department. Vomit and stool dangerous enough to threaten the medical team. And a possible answer to the missing bones of Waterloo.Your patient. Your diagnosis. Your decision....
Killer Candy: The killer candy found in King Tut's tomb
A candy flavor beloved around the world. An ancient treat found in King Tut’s tomb and rumored to make camels less thirsty. And an overdose that drives blood pressure up while throwing the heart out of rhythm.Your patient. Your diagnosis...
Breathing Fire: A Toxic Lung Emergency
Fire eaters who damage their lungs without being burned. Hot-tub users who develop a serious respiratory illness. And gasoline thieves poisoned by the way they steal it.Your patient. Your diagnosis. Your decision.An int...
Poisoned by Paleontology: A Blowgun Poison Mystery
Today's episode is about a toxin so powerful that a little smeared on the tip of a blowgun arrow is enough to silence every muscle in your body, including your diaphragm, stopping your breathing. How did a poison like this become a commonly use...
Locked In: Fever, Paralysis, and a Mystery Pill
A fever that refuses to break with ordinary medicine. Muscles rigid enough to trap a conscious patient inside the body. And the diagnostic chaos caused by “a round white pill.”Your patient. Your diagnosis. Your decision.
The Last Supper: Did foraging topple a royal dynasty?
A foraged mushroom served at a royal meal. A dinner said to have ended the House of Habsburg and changed Europe. And a plant extract investigated as an antidote to liver failure.Your patient. Your diagnosis. Your decision....
The Quiet Baby: An infant poisoned, an antidote from the serum of scientists
A healthy infant who becomes too weak to cry or feed. A digestive system missing key protective bacteria and bile acids. And a lifesaving antidote produced with help from scientists—and horses.Your patient. Your diagnosis. Your decision....
Sublimation: Death in a sealed room
A locked room with no intruder. A dead person with no sign of trauma. And a volatile clue that vanishes before investigators arrive.Your patient. Your diagnosis. Your decision.An interactive forensic toxicology mystery ...
Sweet: Ancient biological weapon. Modern aphrodisiac.
A natural poison that harms humans but leaves bees untouched. A rare honey valuable enough to risk lives harvesting it. And a sweet weapon used in conflicts between Russia and Ukraine.Your patient. Your diagnosis. Your decision.
Hot Water: When bath salts become deadly
An easy-to-buy drugstore product that can paralyze like a famous bacterial poison. An old-fashioned enema once used for brain injuries. And a treatment choice that turns constipation into a toxic emergency.Your patient. Your diagnosis. Y...
Fermentation: The Mysterious Blood Alcohol Level
A beer-related ingredient other than alcohol that can cause disease. A diagnosis defense attorneys may be especially fond of. And the reason every person has a measurable blood-alcohol level—even without drinking.Your patient. Your diagn...
Fumigation: A Pesticide Poisoning Mystery
A gas that has killed thieves entering treated homes. A pesticide potent enough to threaten entire families. And a fumigant with consequences for the ozone layer.Your patient. Your diagnosis. Your decision.An interactiv...
Bad Advice: When a Chatbot Recommends a Poison
Poisoning advice delivered by a chatbot. A drug toxicity whose name also means stale or unoriginal. And a naturally occurring substance concentrated in the Dead Sea.Your patient. Your diagnosis. Your decision.An interac...
Adulteration: The New Fentanyl Contaminant
A street drug nicknamed “rhino tranq.” An adulterant also used routinely in emergency and intensive care. And a withdrawal syndrome that can become life-threatening.Your patient. Your diagnosis. Your decision.An interac...
Blue Mood, Part 2: A drug-drug interaction that changed medicine
Cocaine’s unexpected connection to medical-residency work hours. A genetic crisis triggered inside the operating room. And a missed diagnosis that changed the training of every American resident.Your patient. Your diagnosis. Your decisio...
Blue Mood, Part 1: What the wet dog shakes have to do with humans
Animal “wet-dog shakes” with a human counterpart. A drug reaction that can heat the body enough to damage proteins. And an over-the-counter medicine that becomes dangerous when mixed with antidepressants.Your patient. Your diagnosis. You...
Pick Your Poison Trailer
Interested in poisons, mystery, and murder in mayhem? You're in the right place. This is Pick your Poison. I'm your host, Dr. JP, here to share my passion for poisons. It is a fast-paced interactive show where your choices direct the dia...
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Abyssinian Tea: A Little-Known Global Drug Mystery
A stimulant plant used daily by roughly 20 million people. A Hollywood film entangled with American drug policy. And leaves that lose much of their potency soon after harvest.Your patient. Your diagnosis. Your decision....
Fresh Air: When the Antidote Becomes Dangerous
An antidote with more social-media fame than the poison it treats. A bedside moment where panic can make treatment dangerous. And people drinking an aquarium product in search of a cure.Your patient. Your diagnosis. Your decision....
