Ep. 647 Cancer: One Child's Story, and Lessons Learned

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Economics, Libertarian, Government, News

4.8 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2016

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

What would cause the leading cancer doctor in the world to fly across the country to the funeral of a boy of 8? That's part of today's story.

Past guest Roger McCaffrey discusses the terrible ordeal his family endured when they discovered their 4 1/2-year-old son, John, had CML, a stem-cell cancer. The story involves not only a family's anguish, but also a miracle drug, insurance companies, politics, and the FDA.

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0:00.0	The Tom Woods Show, episode 647.
0:03.6	Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion.
0:08.3	Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show.
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0:28.9	Hi, everybody. Tom Woods here.
0:30.4	We have today an episode on a topic that, well, isn't exactly what you'd expect from this podcast, but it touches on
0:40.7	cancer, health, doctors, insurance, the FDA, and frankly, it's just a human interest story as well.
0:50.4	And it involves my friend Roger McCaffrey, who's been a guest on the show a couple
0:54.6	times before, and I've had people write to me and say, Roger McCaffrey is my favorite guest
0:59.1	on your show.
1:00.2	Now, of course, today's episode is much more serious, and so the tone will be much different
1:06.9	in this episode.
1:08.1	We're talking about Roger's son John, who was diagnosed with
1:12.6	CML, which is a kind of stem cell cancer, and died at age eight. And we're going to talk
1:19.3	about Rogers' experiences through this ordeal that lasted several years. And there may be
1:26.5	something in it that you can take away, particularly if you
1:29.4	are struggling with cancer or you know somebody who is, or you're just interested in how
1:35.2	somebody navigates the, you know, the healthcare industry. Very, very interesting. Roger, we
1:41.4	talked to in the past about, I mean, Roger's an expert on the
1:44.6	Catholic Church, but we also talked to him about politics. He worked for Pat Buchanan in 1992. He's done a
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