Medical Media Mixer: The Perfect Cocktail

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.

Episodes

July 21, 2025 34 mins

 

Title The Steel City Sundown

 

In this week’s episode of Medical Media Mixer Podcast we cover:

  • The MAX tv show “The Pitt” 📺

 

We discuss:

✅Violence in healthcare

✅Stats, underlying causes, what we can do

 

🎙️Have you ever been a victim of workplace violence? In healthcare or another setting? Comment on socials or email and we can share on a “listener stories episode.”

 

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In this week’s episode of Medical Media Mixer Podcast we cover:

  • The Netflix series “Surviving Death” 📺

We discuss:

✅Near Death Experiences (NDE)

🎙️Have you ever had a NDE or know someone who has? Is it the brain misfiring or is this a peek into the afterlife?

 

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In this week’s episode of Medical Media Mixer Podcast we cover:

 

  • The TV series “Dr. Odyssey” 📺

 

We discuss:

✅Cruise Ship Medical Facilities ⚓️

✅What happens if you need to be transported off the ship 🛳️

 

🎙️We chat about Joshua Jackson…. Were you a Dawson 🧒 girl or a Pacey 👦🏻 girl? 

 

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*** This episode is filmed live from a winery, so pardon the sound quality***

 

Episode  26 released  June 30

 

Title Sip Happens: Let the Games Be-Gin (But With Wine)

 

🎙️We have officially launched our Patreon! If you want the full uncut video antics from our first Pod field trip and more perks, sign up to support the show!

💳 Patreon

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In this week’s episode of Medical Media Mixer Podcast we cover:

  • 📺 The 2019 documentary “Life Overtakes Me”

 

We discuss:

✅ Resignation syndrome 💤 🛌

 

🎙️What do you think? Is this a trauma response? Are genetics involved?

 

🎧 Listen on: | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Amazon Music | iHeart | Podbean | Player FM | Listen Notes | Podchaser | Boomplay  ⏯️ (links in bio) 

 

New episo...

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Episode 24 released June 16

 

The Snowflake

 

In this week’s episode of Medical Media Mixer Podcast we cover:

🎬The Netflix movie Society of the Snow

🗣️Morbid Episode 638

 

We discuss:

✅Starvation 🤤

✅Hypothermia and Frostbite ❄️

✅Cannibalism 🦴

 

🎙️We chat about whether we could survive in those conditions, and would we eat a friend? Nicole chimes in regarding the psychological impacts. 🥶🍖 😰

 

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Episode 23 Released June 9

Sensory Overload

 

In this week’s episode of Medical Media Mixer Podcast we cover:

🎬The Documentary : Sensory Overload

 

We discuss:

✅ Sensory Processing Disorder

✅ Auditory Processing Disorder

 

🎙️We also discuss supporting sensory needs.

 

🎧 Listen on: | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Amazon Music | iHeart | Podbean | Player FM | Listen Notes | Podchaser | Boomplay  ⏯️ (links in bio) 

 

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In this week’s episode of Medical Media Mixer Podcast we cover:

 

The Hulu miniseries “Dying for Sex” starring Michelle Williams

 

We explain:

✔️ BDSM

✔️ Breast Cancer

✔️ Mammograms and screening guidelines

 

🎙️We also dive into the world of dominance, submission and kink and remind you to get your boobies checked! ⛓️ 🙈 🩻 

 

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🍸 Cocktail recipes drop on socials the weekend before the episode airs 🍹

 

#medicalmed...

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In this week’s episode of Medical Media Mixer Podcast we cover:

 

-Episode 2 of Something’s Killing Me - The Strange Case of Dr. Gilmer

 

-2023–2025 series “The Curious Case of Natalia Grace”

and

-the Hulu dramatization “Good American Family”.

 

We explain:

✔️ Huntington’s disease

✔️ skeletal dysplasias

✔️ precocious puberty

✔️ bone age 

✔️ dental age

✔️ Reactive attachment disorder 

 

🎙️We also dive into the moral and ethical q...

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In this week’s episode of Medical Media Mixer Podcast we cover:

 

-Saved by the Bell: Season 2, Episode 9 “Jessie’s Song”

And

-Family Guy, Season 2, Episode 14 “Let’s go to the hop”

 

We explain:

✔️ caffeine use: risks and benefits

✔️ frog/toad licking

✔️ psychedelic assisted psychotherapy 

 

🎙️We have some fun with this landmark episode! Singing may be involved 🎵🤣

 

🍸 Cocktail recipes drop on socials the weekend before the epi...

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The Munchausen and The Apple Cider Vinegar

 

In this week’s episode of Medical Media Mixer Podcast we cover:

 

-The Documentary Scamanda 

 

-The Series Apple Cider Vinegar

 

-The Search For Instagram's Worst Con Artist.

 

-Unmasking Belle Gibson: The real story of the infamous wellness scammer | 60 Minutes Australia

 

We explain:

✔️ Factitious disorder (Munchausen)

✔️ Diet and Cancer

✔️ Apple cider vinegar: health benefits or lac...

In this episode we cover:

 

-Sandman Season 1, Episode 1

 

and

 

-The documentary Dead Asleep

 

We explain:

✔️ Encephalitis Lethargica

✔️ Sleepwalking

✔️ Violence while asleep

 

🎙️We explore the strange sleeping epidemic of World War I and ponder whether murder while sleepwalking deserves a guilty verdict 💤🚶⚖️

 

🍸 Cocktail recipes drop on socials the weekend before the episode airs 🍹

 

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In this episode we cover both the book and movie “Radium Girls” 

And

The movie “Radioactive

Half Life cocktail - https://www.historiamag.com/how-to-radium-party/ 

Radium girls movie/book - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium_Girls  

https://radiumgirlsmovie.com/ 

https://www.amazon.com/Radium-Girls-Story-Americas-Shining/dp/149264935X 

Note: the movie currently on Netflix about the women is not based on my book and does not dep...

In this episode we cover:

 

The book: As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as A Girl

 

And

 

The movie: Fitting In

Nonbinary basil - https://www.sgn.org/story.php?316578 

 

Medical Gender assignment at birth/in infancy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Reimer 

https://books.google.com/books?id=lQjxX3Hj7HIC 

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1281452/ 

https://healthlaw.org/surgeries-on-intersex-infants-are-bad-medi...

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In this episode we cover:

 

The documentaries:

CNCBC Big Shot : The Ozempic Revolution

And 

Impact X Nightline Season 2,  Episode 20, The Skinny Confessions: After Ozempic

 

The movie,  “Faces in the Crowd”

And

The book, “Hello Stranger” by Katherine Center

 

Sources:

Obesity

https://obesitymedicine.org/blog/why-is-obesity-a-disease/

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6179496/

https://www.ajmc.com/view/review-of-current-guide...

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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....

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In this episode we cover:

 

  • Brain on Fire- both 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...

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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

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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...

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