Episode 8: And Who Told You That? – The Medical Misinformation Crisis

Consider the source. And consider the source’s source. And also their sample size and research methodology. Who has time for that? Kate and Nashia close out the season with a look at medical misinformation — including that very debunked 1998 study linking vaccines to autism. Kate makes a confession, and ER doctor Graham Walker of WTFentanyl talks with the nurses about how to pierce through the misinformation and get your WhatsApp aunties to see the light. After a season of feeling our way through the darkness, Kate and Nashia give America an unofficial nursing care plan.©2023 Pizza Shark Productions LLC (P)2023 Audible Originals LLC

Great perspectives here!

Presenting the slippery slope that misinformation can lead you down, contextualized to how it can affect one’s health. The hosts offer very personal examples of how this issue has touched their lives and how they have seen larger scale effects on the population through the patients who turn up in the ER. A thoughtful episode on how we need to truly keep an open and broad perspective on information and that society as a whole can prevent harm by honoring truth backed up by reality.

PCU Nurse

I Loved this series!! Way to go and wish there were some more. Go NYC. :)

Thoughtful, provocative, practical, authentic. And essential.

A fantastic podcast from two experienced nurses who’ve been through the wars and still refuse to leave anyone hurting on the field. Should be essential listening for the HHS, NHS, and every state and local health department. And for anyone who cares about their kids, their parents, their neighbors — those they know and those they don’t.

This is good stuff!!

Finally! Nursing perspectives that are fact-filled, important, honest and hopeful. Thank you for giving nurses something besides snarky memes (although those are good too!) and shoe advice.