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Fidel, Bae, & Sigmund review the most recent 500 days of genocide in Gaza (~12:00), discuss the ceasefire agreement (~28:20), and then have a little more fun reflecting on Joe Biden's overall disastrous tenure as the 46th president (~1:16:00).Amer's GoFundMe: https://gofund.me/44940775Ibrahim's GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/transform-ibrahims-life-rebuilding-the-futureoutro music: three cheers for our side by Orange Juice This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.marxismandmedicine.com

from old cronies to fresh parasocial bonds, our heroes navigate some of Trump's baffling appointments to key healthcare positions in his upcoming 2nd administration. outro: terra by geordie greep This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.marxismandmedicine.com

a lot of talk of post-election blues, but not here folks; much to discuss & much to do as the gang returns to discuss Kamala Harris's disastrous campaign for President and where we go from here.https://palestineaction.org/outro: love me, i'm a liberal by Phil Ochs This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.marxismandmedicine.com

a BOYZ ONLY Fireside Chat on Hezb0llah & the assassination of Hassan Nasrallahmusic:alesis by Mk.geea whiter shade of pale by Shigeo Sekito This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.marxismandmedicine.com

the gang reads a few articles and has some fun wit ithttps://www.jezebel.com/health-care-workers-say-conditions-for-pregnant-people-in-gaza-are-getting-worsehttps://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/29/radical-far-left-kamala-harriss-policies-are-just-common-sense-to-most-americanshttps://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/1000434?form=fpfplease consider donating to help Amer (@amer_gaza1 on IG) and his family, who are facing dire conditions in Gaza: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-me-to-build-my-dream-your-donation-rebuilds-our-life?attribution_id=sl:092a0241-f2e0-4ada-9826-198dd2492693&utm_campaign=p_lico+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=customercorrection (25:17) - meant to say ‘Communist Party' rather than PFLP, which wasn't founded until 1967.outro: that's my floor by Magdalena Bay This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.marxismandmedicine.com

#PACKALERT #PACKNOTICE #PACKSIGNALthe gang does the obligatory post-Trump-almost-assassination coverage. for all our enemies, remember that this is also a comedy podcast in addition to a political podcast so nothing we say counts and that's on period This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.marxismandmedicine.com

today Bae leads us as we get into the wellness industry in the context of Western/Zionist imperial dominance and how colonizer frameworks undergird seemingly unrelated facets of economics, culture, and technology. who is allowed to be well? should the ability to live a safe and meaningful life rely on trite notions of individual physical & psychological consciousness, or consumer choices on the market? if so, who has access to these markets? if not, shouldn't our goal be to overcome the entire concept of wellness and reterritorialize it onto a more historical and social stratum?outro music: not like us by kendrick lamar This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.marxismandmedicine.com

PACK WATCH PACK WATCH PACK WATCH PACK WATCH PACK WATCH PACK WATCH PACK WATCH PACK WATCH PACK WATCH PACK WATCH PACK WATCH PACK WATCH PACK WATCH PACK WATCH PACK WATCH PACK WATCH PACK WATCH PACK WATCH PACK WATCH PACK WATCH PACK WATCH PACK WATCH PACK WATCH PACK WATCH PACK WATCH PACK WATCH PACK WATCH PACK WATCH PACK WATCH PACK WATCH PACK WATCH PACK WATCH PACK WATCH PACK WATCH PACK WATCH we discuss the death of Henry Kissinger and the legacy he left behind - specifically in Occupied Palestine & Vietnam - which has made its mark in every corner of the world and endures to this day. RIP BOZO RIP BOZO RIP BOZO RIP BOZO RIP BOZO RIP BOZO RIP BOZO RIP BOZO RIP BOZO RIP BOZO RIP BOZO RIP BOZO RIP BOZO RIP BOZO RIP BOZO RIP BOZO RIP BOZO RIP BOZO RIP BOZO RIP BOZO RIP BOZO RIP BOZO RIP BOZO RIP BOZO RIP BOZO RIP BOZO RIP BOZO RIP BOZO RIP BOZO RIP BOZO RIP BOZO RIP BOZO RIP BOZO RIP BOZO RIP BOZO RIP BOZO RIP BOZO RIP BOZO RIP BOZO RIP BOZO RIP BOZO RIP BOZO RIP BOZO RIP BOZO RIP BOZO RIP BOZO RIP BOZO RIP BOZO outro: tin man by feeble little horse This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.marxismandmedicine.com

kickstarting our ‘health and wellness' miniseries and just in time for halloween, we discuss the deeply disturbing ‘project' that is Bryan Johnson - a 46 year old multi-millionaire hellbent on staying young and horny forever. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.marxismandmedicine.com

as the spiritual successor to our discussion from episode 15, we break down yet another L for student loan borrowers and the Biden administration by the Supreme Court.outro: whitehouse road by Tyler Childers This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.marxismandmedicine.com

today we review some articles. first one is from Medscape, who has seemingly lost the plot with several recent, absolutely bizarre offerings. we also discuss some ‘market activity' involving health insurance companies and hospitals - don't you love it when the most important thing is not patient care or health worker wellbeing but stock prices for healthcare capitalist vultures? we round things out with consent manufacture and State management of homeless people with mental illness. the peasants YEARN for reinstitutionalization, thank u Eric Adams!outro: wave by João Gilberto This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.marxismandmedicine.com

well, the shootings start comin and they don't stop comin…in the wake of the recent mass violence event in Texas, we talk mass shootings - primarily dissecting the active ideological choice State actors make of placing ‘mental health' at the center of bourgeois discourse regarding gun violence, mass killings, and other phenotypic manifestations of a reactionary resurgence in the US.outro: new earth by Cass McCombs This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.marxismandmedicine.com

we welcome esteemed friend of the pod and M&M's official Canadian Correspondent Kristel Jax to the show to discuss - in broad terms - concepts, movements, and nascent legal structures encompassing the ‘right to die,' Medical Assistance In Dying, and (Physician) Assisted Suicide in Canada and the United States. how are today's moral values embedded in the ways in which we talk (or don't) about death, let alone the idea of death itself? how do cultural production and the ‘Spectacle-ization' of medicine shape modern mythologies about end-of-life care? how might economic coercion alter our potentials in life in the most general sense possible? well, it may result in Capital's most monstrous decoding yet: the commoditization of death.legislation is on the table for millions upon millions of people in North America in the coming years, and we are still very early into the existing legal frameworks. it's something we all might have an interest in paying more attention to in the future. special bonus on this episode: intermittent pug noises (if that's your thing)Simons "All is Beauty" CommercialKRISTEL JAXDrone Therapy Podcast IG: dyingbutfine **correction: the Terri Schiavo case was about whether or not to discontinue tube feeding, not mechanical ventilation.outro: memory by Whitney This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.marxismandmedicine.com

shiver me fingers !!!! (it's cold now and happy christmas)in between visits from Skinner and a WiFi cut-out plotted by our most despised enemies, Sigmund Fraud leads our discussion on Cerebral, an online medication/therapy service self-described as ‘expert help for your emotional health.' we go into what it offers, what people who have worked at Cerebral thought of it, and where it fits into the broader, already-fractured, capitalist healthcare milieu.music:46' do you remember - john vanderslice1:11' mayla - edward sharpe & the magnetic zeros1:29' mookie's last christmas - saosin This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.marxismandmedicine.com

FRIENDSHIP ENDED WITH ‘SUMMER’NOW ‘THE RETURN OF M&M’ IS MY BEST FRIENDsince we last saw our heroes, Fidel started a locums job, Sigmund became the spiritual and material successor to Matthew Lesko, and Bae stayed ‘lowkey eating’ in ‘the cut’ (at Whataburger)we decided to ca$h in on the discourse surrounding ‘Biden Bucks’ aka the loan forgiveness relief that’s been percolating in the zeitgeist - and then focus on educational loans for physicians (+ briefly touch on nurses). we also zoom out and discuss how debt’s historical role is to act as a tool of social manipulation, and in its current iteration, it tends to shape modes of existence into what’s expedient for Capital.***apologies for the feedback at random points throughout the episode! i believe it is our enemiesSAAG's Solidarity Appeal for Flood Victims in Pakistanoutro: check it out by John Cougar Mellencamp This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.marxismandmedicine.com

by now, most of us have at least heard of RaDonda Vaught and the cover-up by Vanderbilt University Medical Center of the tragic death of Charlene Murphey. on March 25 2022, RaDonda was found guilty of criminally negligent homicide and abuse of an impaired adult in the context of a medication error. we welcome back nurse homie and union thug Rach (aka “Just Some Nurse”) to discuss the timeline of events, relate some personal experiences, interpret the systemic conditions that could allow something like this to happen, and evaluate the implications this trial may have on healthcare workers and patients alike. join us as we barrel into the fresh new contradictions of 21st century Medicine - the American way.here’s a good timeline of eventson May 13, RaDonda Vaught was sentenced to 3 years of supervised probation - no jail time mashallah!!!Christian Gainey casemusic:intro: created by fidel cashtho1.14.00: shaking ass by Jerry Paperoutro: june by Destroyer(apologies for some of the shaky audio quality) This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.marxismandmedicine.com

AND WE BACK AND WE BACK AND WE BACK AND WE BACK [x1,000]the gang returns mfers!!!!!!!!!! (sorry that was 2 long 2 be away) Fidel is board certified, Sigmund grows their hair out and leaves the polycule because nobody noticed, and Bae puts on his ‘presenter’ hat to give us a peek into healthcare in rural america.SHOUTOUT STANFORD HOUSESTAFF ON THEIR UNION WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!and a special welcome 2 all the bloggers out there.intro: created by fidel cashthooutro: exposure by John Vanderslice This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.marxismandmedicine.com

Sigmund is the train conductor of today’s episode, next stop hell u mfers!!!!! on the way, we’ll hear about transportation, its history, and its relationship to healthcare and other human needs. we’ll also get some comparisons on how other countries are doing - and of course, we couldn’t do an episode on transportation without talking a little bit about elon musk.to skip ahead to the episode’s ‘content’ (how dare u??) start at 7:20.outro: C’mon N’ Ride It by Quad City DJ’s This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.marxismandmedicine.com

after analyzing various fast food kids meals in fastidious rapture (coming soon to the patreon-only feed!!), the gang dissects food production and consumption under a capitalist paradigm, its vicissitudes during the neoliberal turn, and how struggles for food sovereignty relate to health and healthcare.Gilles Deleuze - Postscript on the Societies of Controlintro: created by fidel cashthooutro: Q by Cartel This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.marxismandmedicine.com

🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨e-pod🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨medical instagram has recently been popping off over the current milieu of ‘strike fever’ happening across healthcare, as well as the strikebreaking scabs hindering these working class efforts. our union thug west coast besties Rach and Alex return to discuss the situation, how we got here, how we should analyze it, and where we go from here.as a reminder: never cross a picket line.Labor NotesSecrets of a Successful Organizer - LaborNotes workshop on December 2!Jane McAlevey - No ShortcutsKim Moody - US Labor in Trouble and Transitionintro: created by fidel cashthooutro: imposter syndrome by Sidney Gish This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.marxismandmedicine.com

what do u want from me? it’s the 2nd part of the housing episode.https://mcmansionhell.com/[inhale] decommodify needs.[exhale] decommodify needs.decommodify needs.intro: created by fidel cashthooutro: little blu house - unknown mortal orchestra This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.marxismandmedicine.com

in an episode some would already dub an M&M “classic” (although some commenters classify ALL M&M episodes as “classics”), Sigmund leads us through an analysis of homelessness and the rampant moralizations surrounding it, the housing ‘crisis,’ and beyond. we also throw in the large wrench that is the pandemic, investigate the breadth of the CDC eviction moratorium, and critique what gives rise to these truly dire conditions of housing in the United States in the first place - a ghostly remnant & modernized update of feudal society, existing within a free market system of distribution, where ownership of land and housing is favored toward those with pre-existing wealth, and is used to further extract wealth from non-owners of land and housing. shelter should not be a commodity. (part 2 coming soon.)intro: created by fidel cashtho45:00 the box by roddy ricch (?? honestly id never heard this song before)outro: mailbox by cola boyy This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.marxismandmedicine.com

IT’S THE UNION EPISODEwe welcome our first ever (!!) guests to the M☭M podcast, 2 union thugs named Alex and Rachael, to chat about unions. what is a union? should i join one? START one? how would it benefit me? why are the bosses so against them? is everything i learned about unions growing up just propaganda? all these questions - and more - will be answered, along with other tidbits like eternal hospital snacks, mysterious dental emergencies, and the app-ification of labor organizing. LINX:Labor NotesCIR/SEIUJane McAlevey ResourcesM&M Patreonmusic:intro: created by fidel cashthooutro: solidarity forever - pete seeger This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.marxismandmedicine.com

🎶 u may tire of me 🎶 // 🎶 as our december sun is setting 🎶 // 🎶 ‘cause i'm not who i used 2 be 🎶 summer break is over and M&M is back! welcome babies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Sigmund leads today on the unfortunate death of Libby Zion - a famous case that most docs and many people in healthcare have at least heard of - and how it eventually led to changes in physician residency training. work responsibilities limited to 24 consecutive hours (with caveats), 80hrs/week (with caveats), and a mandatory 10 hours rest period in between clinical duties, among other things; while this is progress from the more horrific exploits of residency prior to these changes - 120 hour weeks, q3day 36hr in-house call - we have to ask: how far have we really come? many residents still routinely lie about their duty hours. mental health continues to deteriorate for residents and even beyond residency; attending doctors face ever-escalating production pressures (employers increasing the relative rate of surplus value), documentation burden merely for billing purposes, and cost-saving mechanisms stemming from the 1980s neoliberal political turn and the managed care regime. the questions we all need to start asking are: how do we get closer to making a lasting, positive transformation in how young doctors train? and how will that set us up for a future of meaningful labor - and importantly - on our own terms?music:intro - created by fidel cashthoclosing track - my sweet lord by george harrison This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.marxismandmedicine.com

i know, i know - an hour and 40 minute long part 3???? it’s worth it brothers and sisters. (maybe? that’s what they told me at least)today we wrap up our long discussion on the payers of healthcare by dissecting specifically the PRIVATE payers - the private health insurance industry we all know and love (with household favorites like UnitedHealth, Aetna, Cigna), as well as the scam-fiction known as “consumer-driven healthcare” (most notably FSAs, HSAs, and their cousin the high-deductible health plans). we also touch on “managed care,” an important movement in healthcare which burst onto the scene in the 1980s; ostensibly on a mission to control costs but only really succeeding in making everyone despise how healthcare is administered and financed - except for the people that benefit from this ludicrous racket, of course. we end the episode with a fairly in-depth comparison of the healthcare systems in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. we hope this is a good starting point for understanding why our healthcare system in the US is totally irredeemable and must be replaced with not just Medicare for All, but additionally, some form of a fully nationalized healthcare system.tunes:intro: created by fidel cashtho1:13:00 in bloom by sturgill simpsonoutro: burgundy red by sunset rollercoaster This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.marxismandmedicine.com

oh happy day (oh happy day)! it’s finally nice out and you know what that means. yes friends, part 2 of academic half-day #2 is here. we discuss the payers of healthcare, specifically the public sector payers. Medicare, Medicaid, the Indian Health Service, CHIP, the VA.. there’s actually quite a large number of public payers within the United States healthcare system. but that’s not inherently a good or bad thing; there is no essentialist character to what government is or isn’t, can or can’t be. we can make the public sector efficient and actually serve the people if we construct and fund it correctly. and considering the astronomical administrative burden, means-testing mechanism, and increased costs stemming from the fractured nature of our current healthcare payment scheme - which is a BIGTIME dissatisfier - we can easily do better than this busted ass system. [part 3 coming soon where we discuss the private payers of healthcare, i.e. the private health insurance industry & consumer-driven healthcare, as well as make concrete comparisons of our healthcare system to other countries.]tunes:intro: created by fidel cashthooutro: Paprika by Japanese Breakfast This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.marxismandmedicine.com

welcome back friends! it’s session #2 of our Academic Half-Day series, and today we’re continuing our exploration of the Medical-Industrial Complex by dissecting how we buy & pay for healthcare - the other half of the dialectic that is reflected in the question of how we provide & administer healthcare (which is coming up in session #3). ‘buckle the fuck up’ folks, because this session is a deep dive on the history and birth of health insurance in the United States. other show highlights include Bae Guevara divulging his ‘dirty bulking’ technique (double fisting different-flavored Whataburger milkshakes) and Sigmund Fraud signaling support for alternative medical therapies (revitalizing the Laudanum movement). part 2 coming soon.tunes:@12:32 - maple leaf rag by scott joplin@22:17 - take five by dave brubeck@31:26 - swing that music by louis armstrongintro: created by fidel cashthooutro: milkshake by kelis This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.marxismandmedicine.com

Bae outs Fidel as a literal mosquito, Fidel does an awful impression of the ‘southern West Virginia dialect’ of his youth, and Sigmund guides us through a cursed episode on the history of every medical student’s favorite gameshow: “The Match!” …apologies for the shaky audio quality on this one. it’s the internet. they’re racistintro: created by fidel cashthomusic:@21:34 Begin the Beguine by Artie Shaw (original artist Cole Porter)@26:04 Pennsylvania 6-5000 - Adios - Little Brown Jugoutro: Provider by N*E*R*DErving Goffman's Presentation of Self in Every Day Life This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.marxismandmedicine.com

in part 2 of our introduction to the medical-industrial complex, we move on from our philosophic and social analysis of society and focus in on the economics - the ownership, production, and distribution of resources that meet the material wants and needs of society. we set out to define some terms for our argument by investigating the public sector vs. private sector, market economy vs. planned economy, and begin to touch on healthcare administration vs. healthcare finance. this will all set up future episodes where we’ll delve into the devilish details and concoct a formal, broad-based analysis of the specific entities inhabiting the medical-industrial complex and their interactions.tunes:intro: created by fidel cashthoclosing music: everybody wants to rule the world by tears for fears This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.marxismandmedicine.com

good afternoon everybody - please find a seat. i hope your morning was full of rewarding patient care and skillful documentation. welcome to Academic Half Day, a new long-form recurring series that takes a considerably deep dive into the intricacies that inform our position not only as healthcare workers, but as prisoners of the hellish society known as Late Capitalism. this is our first offering of Academic Half Day, where we ask a simple question: what in the god damn hell is the medical-industrial complex? as a massive chain of interactions between countless entities and interests, this requires multiple episodes to successfully explore; but today we offer you an introduction, or the beginnings of a metastructure for how you should think about how healthcare works in the United States. this involves some light philosophic, economic, and sociological study, so with that being said please silence your phones, set your pagers to vibrate, and let’s all learn something today.tunes:intro - created by fidel cashthoclosing music - behind these hazel eyes by kelly clarkson This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.marxismandmedicine.com

in part 2, the gang wraps up their presentation on private equity - an entity that is eternally in dialectical relation to seemingly unrelated things: upcoding, out-of-network providers, political economy, and - most importantly - helicopter insurance.we relate the importance of understanding the horrors and contradictions of late Modernity as-a systemic, structural issue (the capitalist mode of production, whose phenotype manifests in America as bourgeois white cisheteropatriarchy) -that necessitates a systemic, structural solution (new social relations, arriving through the vehicle of multiracial, queer, feminist, proletarian struggle) -which therefore cannot be resolved through individual action alone (the primary logic of neoliberalism, which systemically reveals itself as the 3-headed-hydra of privatization, deregulation, & austerity).incorporating simultaneous perspectives, rather than incorrectly choosing between identity politics (a social analysis) and class politics (an economic analysis), is ‘the move’ that takes us one step closer to our collective liberation.correction: at 40:26 - medical debt is the #1 cause of *BANKRUPTCY* in the US.music:intro - created by fidel cashthoclosing track - you can get it by BUMPER This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.marxismandmedicine.com

the gang accidentally endorses Passive Suicidal Ideation as the official State ideology of M&M, but then gracefully recovers with a grand rounds-style presentation on the pervasive creep of Private Equity into healthcare. just what is this elite sub-class of vampiric capitalist bastards up to? u gotta hear it (because podcast) 2 believe it.tunes: intro: created by fidel cashthoclosing music: C.R.E.A.M. by Wu-Tang Clan This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.marxismandmedicine.com

bae rightly scolds fidel and sigmund for fomenting chaos at mcdonalds (trying the mcrib), but sigmund redeems herself by presenting a terrific case study of the historical rise and fall of Hahnemann University Hospital (Rest In Power) in Philly. winners: real estate moguls and private equity psychopaths, specifically Joel Freedman. losers: patients, students, healthcare and hospital workers, and increasingly the future of medicine in the united states.further reading: long-form exposé of Allegheny Health Network’s role in Hahnemann’s eventual demise by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: “Anatomy of a Bankruptcy”“Hahnemann University Hospital real estate comes up for sale in 'generational opportunity'“ music: intro: created by fidel cashthoold timey music: blue room by benny goodman This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.marxismandmedicine.com

in part 2, we finish our discussion on philanthrocapitalism, as well as attempt to explore what 'democracy' actually means, what it should include, and what it might actually look like.music: bill gates must die - john vanderslice This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.marxismandmedicine.com

fidel's partner gets laid off, sigmund fraud has another simpsons reference, and bae guevara presents our discussion of a little something called philanthrocapitalism - the space our modern business aristocracy inhabits at the intersection of charitable giving and profitable ventures. doesn't really make sense when you say it that way does it? yeah it actually doesn't. so why does it exist? we're not really sure! it's episode 1! (but actually episode... 3? it doesn't matter, everything is fake, life is meaningless, etc.)opening music: created and produced by fidel cashthoclosing music: Before The Water Gets Too High - Parquet Courts This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.marxismandmedicine.com

we couldn't resist bringing you this special *~EMERGENCY POD~* folks. it's politics time in America, and it's looking like uncle joe is stealing the throne from the danged cheeto. Helen Killer, Bae Guevara, & Fidel Cashtho discuss the conservative meltdown over Jo Jorgensen aka "Yo Yorgensen" aka "JoJo" and her surprising performance; liberals with terminal brain damage who are excited at the prospect of 'renewed bipartisanship' with the odious bloodthirsty maniacs that comprise the GOP establishment; and some 'common sense reforms' that can make a 'democracy' such as the USA an actually democratic nation. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.marxismandmedicine.com

Welcome to our pilot episode of M&M!Kirby Sigston, Lord Gaddafi, & Maximilien Zapata explore the thrilling world of presidential candidates’ healthcare platforms. Sources: Trump: https://www.promiseskept.com/achievement/overview/healthcare/Joe’s Vision: https://joebiden.com/healthcare/Howie Hawkins - Green Party: https://www.gp.org/single_payerJo Jorgenson - Libertarian Party: https://jo20.com/issues/healthcare/Three pinocchios for calling Singapore’s far superior healthcare system “like ours” - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Singapore“Healthcare in Singapore is supervised by the Ministry of Health of the Singapore Government. It largely consists of a government-run universal healthcare system with a significant private healthcare sector. [...] Approximately 70–80% of Singaporeans obtain their medical care within the public health system. Overall government spending on public healthcare amounts to 1.6% of annual GDP.” Comrade Gloria La Riva - Party for Socialism and Liberation: https://www.lariva2020.org/programThe Other Phil Collins - Prohibition Party: http://prohibitionists.org/Background/Party_Platform/body_party_platform.htmlKanye West - Birthday Party: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanye_West_2020_presidential_campaign This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.marxismandmedicine.com

this serves as a bridge from the podcast formerly known as 'reunion.' this episode covers Friedrich Engels's seminal text - Socialism: Utopian and Scientific (1880). using this pamphlet, we explore how we should interpret modern day capital-M Medicine through a Marxist lens. just like you see throughout other sectors of society, the medical-industrial complex has its own division of labor and class distinctions that consolidate power into an owning/ruling class with the ability to dictate the conditions of healthcare finance and administration. what are these classes? who constitutes these classes? how do we use that information to understand politics? to create a better healthcare system? all of these important questions will be answered - and more! (whether u like it or not.) This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.marxismandmedicine.com

what's good yall? (nothing right now to be exact.) #1 & #2 are back in this admittedly long ass episode where we dissect COVID-19, its implications on our healthcare system, and (importantly) the potentially drastic social-economic effects on the world's most vulnerable people. stock exchange is down, anxieties are up, and Clorox® is MIA. what's the best way to interpret a pandemic in the 21st century? by boldly traversing uncharted territory - something nobody else is trying - doin a podcast. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.marxismandmedicine.com

welcome back to our 2-part special on the medical-industrial complex... part 2. today #1 returns to center an important piece of modern propaganda - the individualisation of struggle - which tells us that our choices alone determine our future, while ignoring the collective economic shitstorm of society that plays a much bigger role in the poisoning of our social relationships in general. how do we understand the improvement of society as an intersectional, collective struggle? a struggle based on individual needs, but more fundamentally class, as well as identity? how do we connect health justice with other societal goals like housing justice? the women's movement or queer liberation? reproductive justice? black, brown, and indigenous emancipation? capitalism is an economic system that gives rise to certain political structures and social/cultural formations. it digs its claws into every aspect of our world to make money and commodity the primary endpoints of human life rather than mutual aid and cooperation across our planet. it divides people based on constructed differences of class, race, gender, sexuality, or citizenship status, people who are otherwise like-minded and want the same things: safety and prosperity for themselves, their families, and humanity. it is an economic system that creates leisure for the few and suffering for the rest; and while privatized healthcare is merely one way this suffering is extended to the masses, it interacts with many other sectors of society like education or food or child care to create the perfect storm of exploitation.we cannot interpret anything in a vacuum because it's all connected - just like each and every one of us, no matter how alienated we all sometimes feel from each other.us.reunion.now@gmail.comepisode art by @toosphexy on instagramfollow us on instagram: @reuniondocs This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.marxismandmedicine.com

this episode is brought 2 u by an edited prior recording from #1.this is part 1 on the medical-industrial complex, its immense flaws, its destructive capabilities, and how it relates to clinical healthcare workers and affects our relationships with our patients. as we explore this topic, we should think about how we could create a New Hippocratic Oath - something that doctors can actually be proud of; something that centers patient care; something that goes beyond just medicare for all.artwork by coresident/friend of the show [name redacted]us.reunion.now@gmail.comfollow us on instagram: @reuniondocs This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.marxismandmedicine.com

welcome to the reunion podcast! in episode 1, #1 and #2 sorta just wing it entirely (???) but end up chatting about waning physician autonomy and the increasing role of administrators at work, the ever-increasing cost of healthcare to patients/providers, and the political propaganda that obfuscates the reality of how badly we need a single payer healthcare system in the united states.us.reunion.now@gmail.comfollow us on instagram: @reuniondocs This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.marxismandmedicine.com