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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.
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Want to know what the wet-dog shakes have to do with humans? What drug reaction causes a temperature so high it can cook the proteins inside your body? What over the counter medicine can cause a potentially life-threatening reaction with SSRIs? Listen to find out. Send us a text
Want to know what substance is used by 20 million people a day worldwide, but almost unknown in Western countries. What movie might’ve included US drug policy and what plant’s potency decreases rapidly once it’s picked? Listen to find out! Send us a text
What to know what antidote is getting more attention on social media than the poison it treats? What happens if the doctor panics while giving it. Why people are drinking fish tank antifungal cleaner? Listen to find out! Send us a text
Want to know what dictators’ autopsy was published on the front page of the newspaper, why he hated doctors and what that had to do with his death? What leeches were used for in 1950? Listen to find out! Send us a text
Want to know why cocaine is used in the operating room? What toxin has been used in bombs, impregnated into clothing and sprayed on salad bars? What rat poison is treated with vitamins? Listen to find out! Send us a text
Want to know what eating meat has to do with doping and drug testing in the Olympics? What medicine to treat asthma in horses is abused by humans for weight loss? Listen to find out! Send us a text
Want to know what hitchhikers have to do with toxicology? Exposure to what animal has been mistaken for a drug of abuse? What substance costs $40 million dollars per gallon? Listen to find out. Send us a text
Want to know what toxin was used by Nazis and is treated with vitamins? Is potent enough to kill a moose in 20 minutes. A poison where the antidote changes the color of your blood and skin? Listen to find out! Send us a text
Do you know what poison is the most potent known to man, yet is ubiquitous in nature? How you can be poisoned by a prison potato? Listen to find out! Send us a text
Want to know what compound from the Amazon combines 2 plants in a bit of ingenious indigenous pharmacology? What substance was considered too dangerous for study in communist countries? Send us a text
Want to know poisoning is often mistaken for an allergic reaction? What you risk by eating barracuda? What causes Foreign Accent Syndrome when a person suddenly starts speaking in another language? Listen to find out! Send us a text
Want to know what poison makes bones crumble and glow-in-the-dark? What living thing thrives inside Chernobyl? Listen to find out! Send us a text
Want to know what poison causes septic shock? What famous scientist died after exposure? And what medical treatment requires a doctor’s note to get through airport security after receiving it? Listen to find out! Send us a text
Want to know what toxin causes excruciating pain and death in minutes? Has been treated with amputation? And when petroleum jelly (brand name Vaseline) is used to treat poisoning? Listen to find out! Send us a text
Want to know what toxin in the local diet affected Artic explorers in the 1800s but not native people? Which body part reflects brain swelling? What did the ancient Egyptians use to treat night blindness? Send us a text
What antidote has caused more deaths than the toxin itself? Want to know what type of bite has been mistaken for appendicitis? Listen to find out! Send us a text
Want to know what disease is more common in the Emergency Department in the month of January? Has been called Jitterbug? Why Veterans hospitals used to have whisky on the formulary? Listen to find out! Send us a text
1Want to know what poison is called the Silent Killer? Is colorless, odorless and tasteless i.e. completely undetectable? How car part theft might increase the toxicity of your car? Listen to find out! Send us a text
Want to know about the dangers of mistletoe tea and snow flocking spray? What life-threatening complication alcohol can cause in a person who isn’t drunk? Listen to find out! Send us a text
Want to know what disease affects both sea lions and humans? What toxin inspired a horror film and has also been used as a deworming agent ? Send us a text
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