MedCrimes: a Medical True Crime Podcast · Kate Macy and Devon Rebecca

Dr. Randeep Mann

·1 hr 4 min

Devin welcomes listeners back with loose, playful banter before the episode settles in. The opening stays lived-in and casual, with talk about schedules, comfort blankets, and the kind of studio chatter that makes the show feel familiar. Soon enough, the case takes over. The hosts move into a pain-management story and start unpacking how one patient’s treatment unfolded over time. The discussion centers on escalating medications, including mentions of Percocet, methadone, and morphine. They frame that progression as something that kept moving upward without a real stop point. The cohost pushes back on the logic of simply increasing the dose again and again. That reaction gives the episode its moral center. The show keeps returning to the idea that pain care can become dangerous when it drifts without boundaries. The patient says she started to get hit with really heavy drugs and did not like how they made her feel. The hosts also note that she was alarmed after her sister’s overdose and by where her own path seemed to be heading. That fear is sharpened by the detail that prescription bottles with her name on them showed up in her sister’s home. The episode then widens out to outside reactions. The hosts mention that some people online defend the doctor and say he relieved their pain. They also mention other comments alleging prescriptions were written in a minor’s name. That contrast keeps the story from becoming too simple. The case is presented as one with conflicting memories, conflicting loyalties, and a lot of anger. The hosts do not smooth over the uglier parts. They react in real time, interrupt each other, and sound genuinely unsettled by the implications. The episode ends with practical advice about finding a board-certified chronic pain specialist and advocating for yourself. That closing advice matches the episode’s larger concern: help should not come with shame, confusion, or risk.

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A plainspoken pain-case episode with moral tension, family fallout, and a looser finish.

This MedCrimes episode stays with a pain-treatment story that never lets the moral tension disappear. Some voices treat the doctor as help; others hear the prescriptions as a line crossed. The hosts keep it plainspoken, and that works.

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Press play for a thorny doctor case that tracks a pain-medication spiral and its fallout.

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