Bringing a Human Touch to Tech with Dr. Nana Afoh-Manin, MD and Stacy Kirk
The WoMed
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4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 August 2020
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
The WoMed is here for you this week with a dose of inspiring news in these crazy times! On today’s episode, host D speaks to super gal team Dr. Nana Afoh-Manin, MD and tech founder Stacy Kirk who collaborated to create the web application myCovidMD which helps under-resourced communities get free testing and access to telehealth services during the Coronavirus Public Health crisis. Dr. Nana and Stacy discuss with D the need for human connectivity in the medical and tech world as well as ways to care for under-resourced communities, keeping in mind both race and class. They also talk about the importance of not only collecting medical data, but also keeping it secure in this COVID era.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to the Wollmed. If you've been watching |
| 0:20.0 | regular heroes on Amazon, you might recognize our next guest. Her name is Dr. Nana |
| 0:26.4 | Afoa Amin from West Hollywood and her friend and technical creative partner |
| 0:31.2 | Stacy Kirk. This is truly a dream team guys and I cannot |
| 0:35.2 | wait for you all to feel their energy. This week's Nasty Energy moment comes from |
| 0:40.4 | Molly McMillan and she wrote in, I have to say I was listening to the |
| 0:45.4 | episode with Dr. Balardo on my commute to and from work today and almost in |
| 0:50.2 | tears for all the kind words she had to say about nurses. |
| 0:53.0 | It is so refreshing to hear doctors take on learning from others in the medical field |
| 0:58.0 | and making mistakes and working together as a team. |
| 1:01.0 | This is exactly what I needed to hear this week and I appreciate |
| 1:05.0 | starting a conversation about women supporting other women in the |
| 1:07.9 | medical field. Thank you for all you do. |
| 1:10.3 | Molly, I so appreciate this and it's so relevant with the new influx of |
| 1:15.6 | residents and students. The way we all work best is together. That's why it's a |
| 1:20.7 | health care team. You can't have one aspect without the other. |
| 1:24.6 | That reminds me, I need to get farm on here too. Any pharmacists that want to come on and |
| 1:29.2 | chat, shoot me a DM. You guys catch a ton of med errors and are such an important part of the health care team too. |
| 1:35.3 | And guys don't forget I am doing a limited run of Womed merch. Yeah, merch. You get it now. It will be vintage someday and you'll be one of the lucky for you to get the cozy |
| 1:47.6 | Woolmed crew neck sweatshirts because hoodies aren't allowed in most hospitals and a a large Womed Arctic tumbler to keep your coffee hot or your water cold. |
| 1:56.9 | Head to the show notes or the Womed Instagram to place your orders. |
| 2:10.0 | Welcome back to the Womed. Today I have the pleasure of virtually meeting |
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