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Five people are reported murdered in their beds at 3 a.m. and the scene makes no sense. No broken windows. No forced entry. No masked intruder. Just a nursing home hallway, a butcher knife, and a night-shift supervisor with a wound that looks more staged than survived. We walk through the North Horizon Healthcare Center case and the 1984 timeline that still feels unreal: twelve deaths in thirteen days in a 50-bed facility, many tied to insulin overdose and at least one to manual strangulation.

If you care about patient safety, true crime, nursing home oversight, and how systems can fail quietly until they don’t, press play. Subscribe, share with a friend, and leave a review, then tell us: what safeguard do you think would have stopped this sooner?

Resources:

https://www.oxygen.com/license-to-kill/crime-news/bobbie-sue-dudley-convicted-in-4-nursing-home-murders

https://www.tampabay.com/archive/1990/08/25/deaths-investigated-in-nurse-s-prior-jobs/

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1986/03/30/Nurse-linked-to-deaths-had-lost-license/9239512542800/

https://www.oxygen.com/true-crime-buzz/fargo-real-life-killer-nurses-like-the-angel-of-death

http://unknownmisandry.blogspot.com/2019/10/bobbie-sue-terrell-dudley-serial-killer.html

https://vocal.media/criminal/twelve-deaths-in-13-days

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1402747/

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-48600478

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A hospital can have world-class branding and still be dangerously broken where it counts. We’re heading to Rhode Island Hospital, a major teaching hospital tied to Brown University, to follow a decade-plus trail of “never events” like wrong-site surgery, wrong-patient procedures, and failures so basic they sound unreal until you see the record.

If you care about patient safety, hospital accountability, and how healthcare systems fail, this one will stick with you. Subscribe, share with a friend, and leave a review so more people can find the show and join the conversation.

Resources:

https://www.golocalprov.com/news/a-decade-of-surgery-problems-plague-rhode-island-hospital

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/third-wrong-sided-brain-surgery-r-i-hospital-flna1c9463696

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ri-hospital-made-3-brain-surgery-errors/

https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/ri-hospital-fined-150000-in-wrong-site-surgery/

https://meridian.allenpress.com/jmr/article/94/4/6/437143/A-History-of-Wrong-Site-Surgery-in-Rhode-Island

https://www.rhodeislandpersonalinjuryattorneyblog.com/wrong-site-surgeries-at-rhode-island-hospital-medical-malpractice-attorney/

https://thepublicsradio.org/article/25m-awarded-ri-couple-malpractice-rhode-island-hospital/

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An ice pick through the eye socket. Ten minutes of “surgery.” A taxi ride home. That’s not an urban legend, it’s a documented moment in the history of lobotomy, and it captures the sick casualness that let psychosurgery become mainstream.

If you care about medical ethics, informed consent, disability rights, or how mental health treatment gets shaped by social pressure, this conversation will stick with you. Subscribe, share this with a friend who loves medical history, and leave a review with your take: where do you see “manageability over care” showing up today?

Sources for today’s episode:
National Library of Medicine — All in Their Heads: When Faces Made the Case for Lobotomy
https://infocus.nlm.nih.gov/2020/01/30/all-in-their-heads-when-faces-made-the-case-for-lobotomy/

Nobel Prize — Controversial Psychosurgery Resulted in a Nobel Prize
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1949/moniz/article/

Nobel Prize — The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1949
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1949/summary/

Encyclopaedia Britannica — Lobotomy
https://www.britannica.com/science/lobotomy

Encyclopaedia Britannica — Transorbital Lobotomy
https://www.britannica.com/science/transorbital-lobotomy

Encyclopaedia Britannica — Walter Jackson Freeman II
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Walter-Jackson-Freeman-II

Encyclopaedia Britannica — How Many People Actually Got Lobotomized?
https://www.britannica.com/story/how-many-people-actually-got-lobotomized

StoryCorps — My Lobotomy
https://storycorps.org/stories/my-lobotomy/

StoryCorps — StoryCorps 455: My Lobotomy
https://storycorps.org/podcast/storycorps-455-my-lobotomy/

PBS American Experience — The Lobotomist
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/lobotomist/

PBS American Experience — Howard Dully
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/lobotomist-howard-dully/

John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum — Rosemary Kennedy
https://www.jfklibrary.org/learn/about-jfk/the-kennedy-family/rosemary-kennedy

U.S. National Park Service — Rosemary Kennedy, The Eldest Kennedy Daughter
https://www.nps.gov/

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