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M⁴: Medicine, Mystery, Mayhem... and Sometimes Murder

M⁴: Medicine, Mystery, Mayhem... and Sometimes Murder

Hosted by two seasoned RNs with over 45 years of combined experience and a friendship nearly as long, the M⁴ Podcast dives into the strange, shocking, and sometimes spine-chilling side of medicine. Each episode explores real cases, bizarre conditions, historical medical mysteries, and the occasional true crime, with expert insight, unfiltered commentary, and a touch of gallows humor.

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Ep. 34: I Will Survive
May 12, 2026

Ep. 34: I Will Survive

Not every case ends in darkness. This week, Crystal and Andrea bring you something a little different: stories of ordinary people thrust into extraordinary circumstances, and the sheer, stubborn will it took to make it out al...
Get Out, Right Now
May 5, 2026

Get Out, Right Now

In 1955, the United States had 558,000 people living in state psychiatric hospitals. By 2000, that number had dropped to under 55,000. Not because mental illness got better. Not because we found a cure. Because we closed the ...
Ep. 32: You Are Not Alone
April 29, 2026

Ep. 32: You Are Not Alone

You're alone. The odds are against you. And then, somehow, you're not alone anymore. Third Man Syndrome is one of the most haunting and hotly debated phenomena in survival psychology — the experience of an unseen presence app...
Ep. 31: She's So High
April 21, 2026

Ep. 31: She's So High

They called it non-addictive. They were lying. In this episode, Crystal takes Andrea through the opioid epidemic, one of the deadliest public health crises in American history. From the origins of opioid use in medicine to th...
Ep. 30: I Need a Hero?
April 14, 2026

Ep. 30: I Need a Hero?

He was a nurse. He was trusted with the most vulnerable patients in intensive care. And somewhere along the way, the line between saving lives and ending them disappeared entirely. Niels Högel worked the cardiac wards of two ...
Ep. 29: Breathe In, Breathe Out
April 7, 2026

Ep. 29: Breathe In, Breathe Out

In late 2019, a mysterious respiratory illness began spreading through Wuhan, China. Within months, it had a name — COVID-19 — and within months after that, it had the entire world in its grip. In this episode of Medicine, My...