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An Arm and a Leg

2022 in Review

An Arm and a Leg

An Arm and a Leg

Society & Culture, Medicine, Health, Health & Fitness, Documentary

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2022

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

The Arm and a Leg editorial team gathered to talk about the moments from 2022 that we’ll never forget — including when work collided with real life. 


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0:00.0

Hey there! It has been a heck of a year. It's time to celebrate, or at least, you know, remember.

0:05.6

I got together with members of the Arm and a Leg editorial team recently

0:08.8

to look back on the stories that left their mark on us. I mean, we got together virtually.

0:13.2

Okay. Dan, are you recording on Zoom?

0:15.1

I'm recording from Zoom.

0:16.4

Fab.

0:19.2

This is an Arm and a Leg.

0:20.5

I show about why healthcare costs so freaking much and what we can maybe do about it.

0:24.6

I'm Dan Weissman.

0:25.9

I'm Marian Wang. I edit the Arm and a Leg podcast.

0:28.8

I'm Emily Pisa Crita. I'm a producer and reporter for an Arm and a Leg.

0:33.2

And I'm Gabrielle Healy. I, at the first aid kit, are newsletter.

0:36.7

We're journalists and we like a challenge. So our job here is to take one of the most

0:40.6

raging, terrifying, depressing parts of American life and bringing something

0:44.7

entertaining and powering and useful. And welcome to our debrief.

0:51.2

I'm super happy to have you all here. And we're going to talk about some of the things that we've

0:55.2

done and covered and seen this year that have left the biggest impressions on us.

0:58.6

And Emily, I think you volunteered to go first.

1:01.2

Yeah. Emily, go first.

1:02.4

Okay. It was really exciting this year to be able to do a story about insulin, which I have focused

1:08.0

on for a long time in my research and my writing. And that also is the medicine that I have to take

1:15.6

every day to stay alive. We looked at California's initiative to make its own insulin.

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