Sleuth Stories: The Nuclear Whistleblower
The Medical Detectives
Soft Skills Media
3.8 • 937 Ratings
🗓️ 27 August 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Introducing our new series, Sleuth Stories, spotlighting the medical investigators who solved some of the biggest medical mysteries in history. In this premiere, we follow Dr. Alice Stewart, the physician-epidemiologist who studied a rise in childhood cancer, and eventually used her findings to change the world.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, everyone, it's Dr. Nance. |
| 0:06.8 | We have a very special guest today. |
| 0:09.8 | We actually have Molly, who is our producer. |
| 0:13.9 | She is filling in for Anna and is sitting in with me for today's story. |
| 0:19.2 | Hi. |
| 0:20.4 | I'm back with my avocado hand. |
| 0:24.8 | For those of you who did not hear, I think our last episode, Molly had cut her finger with a knife |
| 0:32.8 | cutting open an avocado. |
| 0:34.9 | And she called and she goes, I think we need to push the episode. |
| 0:39.1 | I go, no, we need to cancel the episode because you need to put in the ER, girlfriend. |
| 0:44.5 | It was a really good time to know a hand surgeon. |
| 0:47.2 | I've never been more happy to know a hand surgeon. |
| 0:50.3 | Yes, but I mean, we almost had our own medical mystery because you were told some not great advice |
| 0:57.2 | from your VR doctor who said that there's nothing could be done, you know, damage was the damage. |
| 1:04.1 | And I was like, oh no, no, no, no. |
| 1:06.6 | I know. |
| 1:07.2 | Literally thank God for Dr. Nance because, yeah, so I sliced my hand open. |
| 1:12.1 | I immediately couldn't feel my finger. I go to the ER. They stitched me up. And the ER doctor said, |
| 1:17.4 | oh, that happens. The nerve will regrow, hopefully. So then I text Dr. Nance and I ask what she |
| 1:24.4 | thinks about that. She immediately said, absolutely not. |
| 1:30.7 | So that led to surgery and because of Dr. Nance, I now will regain feeling in my finger. |
| 1:37.8 | So thank God for that. |
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