PBP012: Pterabytedactryls and Tyrammosaurus Rex

Posted On: 15th September 2014
By: Poison Boy
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Poison Boy returns to discuss pediatric poisoning and teenage strychnine experimentation. Safety Ranger Bill Boroughf joins the conversation with a discussion of toxicity from artificial hips and the boys have a conversation about a recent local case of hydroflouric acid poisoning. The venomous media review is a discussion of the Basketball Diaries from 1995 and we rap up This Week in Tox History with a visit to Pompeii, potato chips in Saratoga, NY, transcendental meditation with the Beatles and Stones, the creation of chop suey, banana spider venom to treat erectile dysfunction, Rod Stewart, sulfur dioxide in Belgium, Star Trek, Squeaky Fromme and the Monkees.

Written by Poison Boy

Gerry O'Malley (a.k.a Poison Boy) is a board certified ER doctor and toxicologist with a interest in the unusual, terrifying and occasionally hilarious world of poisonings and toxicology. This site is an exploration of poisons of historical interest as well as in current events and pop culture.

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Important Stuff

In an effort to protect children from accidentally ingesting prescription drugs and other medications, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has developed the Up & Away initiative. The goal of the initiative is to spread the message to put medication up, away and out of sight of children. Approximately 60,000 young children are brought to the emergency room each year because they took medications that were left within reach. Learn more about this initiative by clicking the image above and visiting UpandAway.org.