Send us a text A knife that could take a leg in thirty seconds, a theater packed with spectators, and a patient who never got a say—our journey begins with Robert Liston, the unrivaled speed surgeon of the nineteenth century. From there we follow the messy, gripping path from pain-as-proof to consent-as-right, revealing how anesthesia muted screams without restoring voice, and how courts, scandals, and patient advocates forced medicine to listen. If this conversation challenged your thinkin...
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Send us a text A knife that could take a leg in thirty seconds, a theater packed with spectators, and a patient who never got a say—our journey begins with Robert Liston, the unrivaled speed surgeon of the nineteenth century. From there we follow the messy, gripping path from pain-as-proof to consent-as-right, revealing how anesthesia muted screams without restoring voice, and how courts, scandals, and patient advocates forced medicine to listen. If this conversation challenged your thinkin...
Send us a text A tailor’s back room, a bottle of “powder,” and a stack of insurance forms—our step-by-step tour of Philadelphia’s 1930s arsenic ring reveals how murder became a business, cloaked in folk magic and legitimized by paperwork. We start with a misdiagnosed “pneumonia,” follow the paper trail through forged signatures and overlapping policies, and watch a would-be hitman flip the script with the Secret Service. From sandbags meant to mimic brain hemorrhages to a spiritualist selling...
Doctoring the Truth
Send us a text A knife that could take a leg in thirty seconds, a theater packed with spectators, and a patient who never got a say—our journey begins with Robert Liston, the unrivaled speed surgeon of the nineteenth century. From there we follow the messy, gripping path from pain-as-proof to consent-as-right, revealing how anesthesia muted screams without restoring voice, and how courts, scandals, and patient advocates forced medicine to listen. If this conversation challenged your thinkin...
