ER Physician Dr. Rick Pescatore: "Nobody Could Solve Her Mystery Illness"

Podcast: HuMed with David Spiro, MD · David Spiro, MD | Doctor Podcast Network

Opublikowano: 2026-10-13

Dr. Rick Pescatore was driving to Pittsburgh with a woman he had met on Hinge, describing a kind of patient he sees every ER shift: pain, nausea, vomiting, and tests that all come back normal. She said the person he was describing "sounds exactly like my mom." A few weeks later her mother was dying in an ICU, and nobody could solve her mystery illness. The missing piece turned out to be vitamin B1 (thiamine). The woman from that drive is now his wife, Katie. Dr. Pescatore is a board-certified emergency physician. He went through the U...