Episode 4 - Sleeping Bears, Rainbow Pills, And Broken Hearts

Episode 4 - Sleeping Bears, Rainbow Pills, And Broken Hearts

Join @caulimovirus and @Pathologuy2 as they discuss three distinct eras of diet pills in American History, starting in the 1930s when a ingredient from WWI munitions factories found its way into diet pills and cooked people to death, to the "Rainbow Pill" clinics in the 1960s that handed out dangerous combinations of diet pills like candy, to the 1990s class-action darling fen-phen and all the broken hearts left in its wake.

Episode 4 Teaser - Sleeping Bears, Rainbow Pills & Broken Hearts

In which several mistakes found in previous episodes of Caduceus Wild are acknowledged and the record corrected.

Episode 3 - Boost Your Immune System!

William F. Hodges (@pathologuy2) and Screaming Pectoriloquy (@caulimovirus) return after a brief several months hiatus to discuss a disastrous Phase I clinical trial of a novel treatment for auto-immune conditions and why it's not always a good idea to boost your immune system.

Episode 2 - The Aristolochrats!

Dr. Pectoriloquy (@Caulimovirus) and guest host Roswell O. Johnson (@Pathologuy2) return to discuss two mysterious illnesses — one acute, one chronic, but both devastating — that share one common ingredient. What do Belgian weight loss clinics and Balkan wheat fields have in common? Listen and find out. Then half-remember it a few weeks from now when you try to explain it to your friends to seem smart.

Episode 1 - P O S T E G G S

Join MedTwitter's Screaming Pectoriloquy (@caulimovirus) and hyper-responsible pre-med student Thomas Knotts (@Pathologuy2) as we discuss an unfortunate case of toxic hospital eggs and the hundreds of patients who unwittingly ingested them.