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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May 18, 2026
Ep. 35: Wake Up
Sleeping Sickness: The Epidemic That Vanished and the Patients Left Behind It put millions to sleep. Some of them never woke up. Others woke up wrong. Between 1917 and 1928, a mysterious illness swept the globe, leaving its v...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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