#358: DOCTALES WITH COCKTAILS—When Doctors Become Their Own Subjects
In this episode of Doctales with Cocktails, humorously explores historical cases where doctors and scientists experimented on themselves, often with bizarre, dangerous, or groundbreaking results—ranging from LSD discovery, cardiac catheterization, to self-infection with parasites and extreme G-force tests.
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May and Tim dive into astonishing and often unsettling stories of self-experimentation by doctors and scientists. They discuss figures like Albert Hofmann, who discovered LSD by accidentally dosing himself; Werner Forssmann, who performed a heart catheterization on himself; and Barry Marshall, who proved H. pylori causes ulcers by drinking a bacterial culture. The episode also covers strange experiments like Dr. Robert Lopez infecting himself with ear mites, Stubbins Firth drinking vomit to study yellow fever, and John Paul Stapp enduring brutal rocket sled tests to study G-forces. The hosts mix these wild stories with personal anecdotes, cultural references, and humor, reflecting on the spirit of reckless curiosity that sometimes leads to scientific breakthroughs—and sometimes just pure madness.
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