All Too Human: Dr. John Ukadike on his Experiences in Emergency Medicine
Rev Left Radio
Breht O'Shea
4.8 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2026
⏱️ 104 minutes
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Summary
In this installment of our All Too Human interview series, Breht and Dave welcome Dr. John Ukadike, a physician and emergency medicine specialist, into the Shoeless Shed to have a fascinating conversation about his experiences as an ER doctor, his treatment of many patients who struggle with addiction in various forms, his personal relationship with religion and death, his understanding of and approach to general health, the challenges of informing family members that a loved one has passed away, his critiques of the for-profit American healthcare system, and so much more!
Check out John's articles on a wide range of topics here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=john+ukadike
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back, everybody, to our All Two Human series. |
| 0:04.4 | And today we have a different kind of guess that I'm really excited about as far as the |
| 0:11.0 | perspective from a non-addicted person. |
| 0:14.7 | But that is very much for what they do in the world and actually so much in the far end of the world this is a |
| 0:23.6 | person who works in the ER and really see sometimes the tail end the hardest parts of |
| 0:30.4 | people's stories and sometimes the parts they live over and over and over again and so it's |
| 0:35.5 | a great perspective and I just want to welcome here, John. Yeah, yeah, I appreciate it. And I'm John Yucata Kay. I'm board certified in family medicine, and I'm also finishing a emergency medicine residency, so I'm board eligible. So we'll be board certified here in the next few months, hopefully, in emergency medicine and family medicine. |
| 0:55.0 | So I appreciate you guys having me here. |
| 0:56.6 | Absolutely. |
| 0:57.2 | It's a pleasure. |
| 0:58.6 | I guess the way to start here is maybe talking about your backstory, specifically what got |
| 1:04.0 | you into medicine and kind of your path to where you are now. |
| 1:08.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:08.4 | You know, it's probably run on the mill. |
| 1:10.6 | Really loved working with people, being around people. |
| 1:14.6 | Really loved understanding how things worked. |
| 1:16.6 | Always thought I was going to be an engineer. |
| 1:18.6 | Ended up taking calculus one and was like, whoa, I'm terrible at math. |
| 1:22.6 | It's not for me. |
| 1:23.6 | And, you know, switching over to something more science-based and, you know, kind of the rest |
| 1:28.6 | of history, college, grad school, med school, kind of did the whole, the whole gamut of |
| 1:33.4 | education, been in school forever. So this is, I guess, 10 years now since I started med school. |
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