Villains Reimagined: What Modern Medicine Says About Monsters

What is your favorite fictional villain or monster? Do they have a medical condition that led them on the path of evil? How medically accurate is that? Perhaps that character wouldn’t have a been a bad guy were it not for neglect or other people’s hubris? Our experts for this episode are Ron Cook, D.O., Chief Health Officer for Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, and Alan Pang, M.D., assistant professor in the school of medicine and surgeon with Texas Tech Physicians, previous guests. They talked to us about the medical realities behind some popular villains and monsters and separated the fact from fiction when it comes to monsters’ and villains’ physical appearances or underlying medical conditions.