Animals On Trial & Death By Prescription

30 Morbid Minutes

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 731 Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Doctors are notorious for their sloppy penmanship, but did you know that sometimes handwritten prescriptions are so illegible that it’s caused patients to get the wrong medication, causing adverse reactions and on the rare occasion, death? Plus, in the truest example of a kangaroo court, history is littered with cases of animals being tried in court like people, and on occasion, sentenced to execution. Follow us on Social: https://twitter.com/elysewillems https://twitter.com/JessicaVasami Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:34.6	In today's episode, we learn how a doctor's sloppy prescription penmanship contributes to thousands of deaths annually.
0:43.3	Plus, we cover the strange and unusual tradition of putting animals on trial for human crimes.
0:50.3	Welcome to 30 Morbid Minutes.
1:05.6	Thank you. Welcome to 30 Morbid Minutes. This is the podcast where we cover topics of a morbid, macabre, dark and downright grizzly nature.
1:12.5	We talk about scary stuff, creepy things, but we also just talk about human nature, history,
1:19.0	social mores, cover all that good stuff. Yeah, morbid and strange things we're curious about.
1:25.3	Things that go bump in the night. I'm Elise Willems.
1:28.4	I'm Jessica Osamie.
1:29.9	And today we're doing things a little bit different.
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