Nurse Ratchet

Nurse Ratchet

A podcast about healthcare true crime, malpractice and spooky story’s as told by two OR nurses Georgia and Olivia.

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July 15, 2025 21 mins

Georgia presents a three part series on Erin Pattertson who in 2023 poisoned four people and attempted to poison another. The poisoning occurred in Leongatha, Victoria, Australia on 29 July 2023.

On that day, the victims were served a meal that included beef wellington laced with the highly toxic death cap mushroom Amanita Phalloides. Within 24 hours of the meal, all four victims were admitted to hospital and subsequently diagnosed ...

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Georgia presents part 3 of the miraculous rescue of a junior association football team the Wild Boars, trapped for fifteen days in Tham Luang Nang Non, a cave system in  Chiang Rai province, northern Thailand. Twelve members of the team, aged 11 to 16, and their 25-year-old assistant coach entered the cave on 23 June after a practice session. Shortly after they entered, heavy rainfall began and partially flooded the cave system, bl...

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July 1, 2025 56 mins

Georgia presents part 2 of the miraculous rescue of a junior association football team the Wild Boars, trapped for fifteen days in Tham Luang Nang Non, a cave system in  Chiang Rai province, northern Thailand. Twelve members of the team, aged 11 to 16, and their 25-year-old assistant coach entered the cave on 23 June after a practice session. Shortly after they entered, heavy rainfall began and partially flooded the cave system, bl...

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June 24, 2025 48 mins

Georgia presents the miraculous rescue of a junior association football team the Wild Boars, trapped for fifteen days in Tham Luang Nang Non, a cave system in  Chiang Rai province, northern Thailand. Twelve members of the team, aged 11 to 16, and their 25-year-old assistant coach entered the cave on 23 June after a practice session. Shortly after they entered, heavy rainfall began and partially flooded the cave system, blocking the...

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Olivia presents Graeme Stephen Reeves who is a deregistered former gynaecologist and obstetrician from NSW dubbed the Butcher of Bega in the press. Reeves was deregistered in 2004 for performing obstetric procedures at Pambula and Bega hospitals despite being banned from obstetrics, and in September 2008 was charged in relation to Sexual and Indecent assults and genital mutilation at Bega, Pambula and Richmond between 2001 and 2003...

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June 10, 2025 65 mins

Georgia is joined by Kay an ED nurse while they read the nightmarish tales from the emergency department they found in the bowels of Reddit. 


Disclaimer: This podcast features stories shared publicly on Reddit and other social media platforms. These tales are for entertainment and educational purposes only. We make every effort to de-identify details, and no real patient names, locations, or identifying information are shared. ...

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June 3, 2025 72 mins

Georgia  presents the case of Mrs Elaine Bromiley, who in 2005 attended hospital for an elective routine nasal procedure. She was an otherwise fit and well 37 years old, mother-of-two. After induction of anaesthesia there were unexpected difficulties and prolonged attempts to secure her airway. Elaine suffered catastrophic brain damage and died 13 days later. Join Georgia and Olivia as they explore the specifics of the case and the...

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May 27, 2025 56 mins

Georgia and Olivia present the nightmarish tales from the healthcare workers that listen to Nurse Ratchet. 

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Georgia presents the second part of the harrowing tales of some of Walter Freemans victims and the ultimate end of this grizzly practice. 

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May 13, 2025 48 mins

Georgia presents Walter Freeman who was an American physician who specialised in the lobotomy. Wanting to simplify lobotomies so that it could be carried out by psychiatrists in psychiatric hospitals where there were often no operating rooms, surgeons, or anaesthesia, Freeman invented the trans orbital lobotomy procedure. Freeman believed his transorbital lobotomy method did not require a neurosurgeon and could be performed outside...

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May 6, 2025 62 mins

The girls are back after a much needed easter break and Olivia presents the case of Kermit Gosnell. An American serial killer and former abortion doctor, he provided illegal late term abortions at his clinic in West Philadelphia. Gosnell was convicted of the murders of three infants who were born alive after using drugs to induce labor, the manslaughter of one woman during an abortion procedure, and  several other abortion related ...

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Georgia and Olivia unleash about the numerous times they have been bullied working as nurses and how it has directly impacted their mental health, their patient care, and their careers as nurses that they worked so hard to achieve, only to be cut down by the very same people they strived to be like. 

Hospital names, coworkers and patient specifics have been removed for privacy and confidentiality however this story is ours to tell a...

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April 1, 2025 32 mins

Georgia wraps up the harrowing tale of Josef Mengele by delving into his time after the liberation of Auschwitz and the ways he managed to avoid capture living out his days on the run and under many aliases until finally meeting his maker in the most random of ways. 

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March 25, 2025 66 mins

Georgia delves into the specific atrocities of SS mad scientist Josef Mengele during his time at Auschwits one of the most notorious Nazi concentration camps of WW2. 

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March 18, 2025 75 mins

Georgia presents the terrible and infamous Josef Mengele, the Nazi SS doctor of WW2 who tortured, maimed and killed thousands of victims at the concentration camp of Auschwitz. In this episode Georgia delves into his upbringing and education to gain insight into how he became what he would be nicknamed as the angel of death. 

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Olivia presents another fascinating tale about serial killer GP Harold Shipman who was an English doctor who is considered to be one of the most prolific serial killers in modern history after murdering what is said to be upwards of 284 patients throughout his career of roughly 30 years.

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March 4, 2025 48 mins

Olivia presents the lainz angels of death four Austrian nurses aids who band together to take it upon themselves to end the suffering of their unfortunate victims in some of the most brutal ways. 

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Georgia presents the final episode in her three part series on Paolo Macchiarini. This episode delves into the depths of his scientific misconduct across the globe and how people worked together to bring this life long con to an end. 

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February 18, 2025 28 mins

Georgia and Olivia have a candid discussion about Georgias recent experience with pregnancy termination. 

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Georgia delves into part two of the unbelievable tale of Paolo macchiarini and the roller coaster relationship with reporter Bonita Alexander, a whirlwind romance between the two that ends as fiery as it begins.  

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