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The Bakari Sellers Podcast

Dr. Charles Thompson on What It’s Like to Be a Bariatric Surgeon

The Bakari Sellers Podcast

The Ringer

Politics, News

4.8966 Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Bakari is joined by Dr. Charles Thompson, a bariatric surgeon, to talk about some of the common misconceptions about bariatrics (3:21), racism in medicine (9:39), and the various connections between mental health and physical health (17:03). Host: Bakari Sellers Guest: Dr. Charles Thompson Executive Producer: Jarrod Loadholt Producer: Kaya McMullen Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Thank you for tuning in to another episode of the Bacari Sellers podcast.

0:14.8

Today we'll be interviewing my Morehouse brother.

0:16.5

I love when I get a chance to interview my Morehouse brothers.

0:20.1

And Surgeon, Dr Charles Thompson, to talk about the connection between his

0:23.8

clinical work and mental health. These are one of these special programs we

0:26.9

like to throw in amongst the entertainment, sports culture, and politics and just

0:31.2

talk about something that's very important to us all. But before I get to Dr. Thompson,

0:37.8

I've got to talk about something that got me into trouble last week on Twitter, and that was my criticism

0:42.4

of the Biden White House because I took issue and continue to take issue

0:46.4

with the lack of salesmanship around the President's agenda, particularly his domestic agenda

0:51.2

from the President himself. In case you missed it, the two key pillars of the president's agenda, a multi trillion dollar social spending proposal on health care, environmental justice, and housing, and a multi trillion dollar plan for infrastructure

1:05.0

may not pass, and it's because we always go here, y'all, to Democrats.

1:10.4

They're holding the president's agenda hostage.

1:13.4

So some of you may be asking yourself,

1:16.5

how is it that millions of us voted

1:18.1

for the Democratic White House, House, and Senate

1:20.2

with the expectation that we see real progress in money in our communities

1:24.0

and we're being held up by two senators and Senator Joe Manchin and Kirsten

1:27.4

Centimam. A recent CBS poll found that only 10% of Americans actually know what's in the president's plan.

1:35.2

I've been saying that, but whatever.

1:37.4

But almost 60% know that the plan will cost 3.5 trillion dollars.

1:42.0

So what we have is a fight about numbers instead of policies that improve

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