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The death of a person always has a cause. Sure! In this podcast, we not only get to the bottom of these various causes, but - as strange as it sounds - we learn from them. Marcell Engel is a crime scene cleaner and has dealt with more than 12000 crime scenes in various countries in his life. Many of these crime scenes have changed the speaker, entrepreneur and book author, shaped his life and sometimes even inspired him. And that's exactly what he wants to share with you in this podcast. https://www.marcellengel.com/

Each year in the US, a quarter of a million deaths are attributable to medical error. If the number shocks, on some level you already knew it was so. Everyone knows someone - perhaps it was yourself - who has suffered miserable treatment in American hospitals, part of the most elaborate, most extensive and expensive health-care system in the world. But it is perhaps the most inefficient. Misdiagnoses, wrong prescriptions, operating on the wrong patient, even operating on the wrong limb (and amputating it).

"West Virginia Floods Cause 23 Deaths and Vast Wreckage" is from the June 24, 2016 U.S. section of The New York Times. It was written by Richard Pérez Peña and narrated by Paul Ryden.

2020 saw a spike in deaths in America, smaller than you might imagine during a pandemic, some of which could be attributed to COVID and to initial treatment strategies that were not effective. But then, in 2021, the stats people expected went off the rails. The CEO of the OneAmerica insurance company publicly disclosed that during the third and fourth quarters of 2021, death in people of working age (18–64) was 40 percent higher than it was before the pandemic. Significantly, the majority of the deaths were not attributed to COVID.

Dr Shahed Yousaf is a prison doctor dedicated to caring for people on the margins of society. An outsider on the inside, in Stitched Up he introduces us to a cast of unforgettable characters, including killers, con men and auto-cannibals. To Dr Yousaf, they are patients first and prisoners second—because any one of us could end up on the wrong side of the law. He tells us honestly and compassionately what it's like to be their doctor in a system that's chronically overcrowded, drastically under-resourced and all too easy to ignore.