Scary Myths for Halloween
Medgeeks with Andrew Reid
Medgeeks
4.8 ā¢ 996 Ratings
šļø 29 October 2023
ā±ļø 10 minutes
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Summary
Happy Halloween!
In this episode, we will talk about some myths in medicine. First, we will talk about diverticulitis and we used to tell patients not to eat nuts and seeds. Next, we will talk about statins and myopathy. When we thought we should tell patients to take statins in general. The last myth will discuss STDs.
Join Dr. Niket Sonpal as he enlightens us about some scary myths about medicine.
10/30/2023
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| 0:00.0 | One of my favorite things about this podcast is recording it on a rainy day when the skies are gray. |
| 0:05.1 | Yes, I'm from the northeast and I love gray cloudy weather. |
| 0:08.8 | And today is one of those such days. |
| 0:10.8 | And I saw people putting out jackalantrons outside and it got me thinking, |
| 0:15.0 | what's the background and story of creating jackalantrons? |
| 0:18.0 | Well, it turns out it originates in Ireland, Scotland, and England in Great Britain. |
| 0:23.0 | And what I discovered was that the background of doing jackalantrons actually came from a more |
| 0:27.6 | macabre story. |
| 0:28.6 | And it got me thinking there are things in medicine that we do as well. |
| 0:31.6 | That started out with good intention but we later |
| 0:34.2 | realized probably not the best idea. |
| 0:36.8 | To give you such an example, originally when beta blockers first came out, they were considered |
| 0:40.9 | contradicated in congestive heart failure. |
| 0:43.2 | If you were to say that now in 2023 people would think you're crazy. |
| 0:46.6 | They've reduced mortality. |
| 0:48.2 | And so with that in this podcast we're going to be discussing things that started out |
| 0:52.1 | with a different intention and later on we found |
| 0:55.0 | out they probably weren't the right thing to do. |
| 0:57.2 | My name is Dr. Niket Son Paul, your friendly neighbor, internist, and gastronautologist, |
| 1:01.1 | and welcome to this week's podcast, a little scary stuff that we found |
| 1:04.6 | out wasn't the right thing to do in honor of my favorite holiday season, Halloween. Now before we jump into the medicine, let's go back to jackalandrons and actually talk about where they started out. |
| 1:27.5 | You see in the 19th century there was a guy who lived named Stinji Jack and he wasn't really well liked because he was very mischievous. |
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