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

June 16, 2025 49 mins

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 🍹

 

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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...

May 5, 2025 86 mins

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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April 28, 2025 56 mins

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...

April 21, 2025 65 mins

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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March 31, 2025 78 mins

 

In this episode we cover:

 

  • Brain on Fire- oth 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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March 10, 2025 67 mins
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In this episode we cover the documentary:

Don’t Die: The Man Who Wants to Live Forever

 

Sources:

 

Forever Young Cocktail: https://www.totalwine.com/cocktail-recipes/forever-young 

 

Mormonism - https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/29/us/mormon-beliefs-explained-cec/index.html 

LDS is one sect of Mormonism; Book of Mormon vs. Bible, christianity, missionary work, abstinence from coffee, alcohol, premarital sex, historically against LGBTQI...

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February 24, 2025 92 mins

In this episode we cover:

Simone Biles: Rising - Netflix 2024

and 

Call the Midwife Christmas Specials from 2013 and 2016

 

The Fly Girl Spritzer using Black Girl Magic wines - https://www.mcbridesisters.com/blogs/eat-drink/cocktail-recipe-fly-girl-spritzer?srsltid=AfmBOopqq5eAw0oOZBjYHlyhHAVlM3GebvzMwJPbzWvXvAbVOsWwxksl 

 

Simone Biles: Rising - Netflix 2024

 

https://www.netflix.com/title/81700902 

 

Black excellence overcoming t...

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February 17, 2025 68 mins

In this episode we cover:

- The Power by Naomi Alderman (book) and series on Amazon Prime

- It's Not Hysteria: Everything You Need to Know About Your Reproductive Health (But Were Never Told) Book by Dr Karen Tang

- The Menopause Manifesto: Own Your Health with Facts and Feminism, Book by Jen Gunter

- Our Bodies Ourselves, Book by the Boston Women's Health Book Collective

 

Sources:

 

Cocktail: Shades of Pink https://empressgin.com...

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February 10, 2025 68 mins

 

In this episode we cover: 

The movie “Bug” and The documentary Skin Deep: The Battle Over Morgellons

 

Sources:

Movie:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3920274/plotsummary/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bug_(2006_film)

Delusional Parasitosis:

https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1121818-overview

Scabies:

https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1109204-overview

Lice:

https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/225013-overview

Bedbugs:

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February 3, 2025 66 mins

In this episode we cover

  • The Empyrean book series by Rebecca Yarros
  • The book “Blood Orange Night: My Journey to The Edge of Madness by Melissa Bond

Sources:

Empyrean series:

https://screenrant.com/fourth-wing-book-violet-sorrengail-condition-ehlers-danlos-syndrome/

https://www.health.com/rebecca-yarros-fourth-wing-interview-7569752

https://cyda.org.au/dragons-mag...

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