From our reporter's notebook: What we learned in 2020, and what's ahead, with T.K. Dutes

An Arm and a Leg

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

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

This episode turns the tables: Host Dan Weissmann gets interviewed about what he's learned this year, and what's ahead for the show— with T.K. Dutes, an ace radio host and podcast-maker ... who was a nurse in a previous life, so she knows a thing or two about the health-care system. (She chronicled her career transition in an episode of NPR's Life Kit.)

And here we learn: During her nursing career, she was uninsured. She's got some stories about life before-and-after health insurance.

T.K. also coins what could be a new tagline for this show: "Where there's money, there's going to be scams."

Check out Open World, a terrific podcast T.K. published recently with fellow superstar Rose Eveleth. The first episode features a reading by and discussion with the writer N.K. Jemisin, who won a MacArthur "genius" award the day after the show came out. (Clearly, the MacArthur folks were listening.)

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Dan, super quick. If you appreciate what we're doing here on an arm in a leg,
0:04.4	I want to ask you to help us out. The biggest source of funding for this show is you.
0:09.1	And right now, any donation you make is going to be matched dollar per dollar thanks to news match from the Institute for Nonprofit news like you give us 50 bucks. They make it a hundred just like that.
0:20.9	You can do that right now at arm and a leg show dot com slash support thanks okay
0:26.2	here's a show hey there we're gonna do something kind of unusual for this
0:29.8	episode it is mainly just one interview and I am the one being interviewed.
0:34.0	It's a chance for me to look back with someone I like and trust on what I've learned this year and to look ahead.
0:39.0	So in a minute, I'm going to hand things over to T.K. DuTess.
0:42.0	She's a radio host and podcast maker, I really respect,
0:45.2	and I got a great big dose of her work this fall when she put out two amazing stories in 24 hours.
0:51.5	One was the first episode in a podcast called Open World. It featured an
0:55.6	author named N. K. Jameson reading and talking about her work which I loved. Oh and
1:00.3	like a few hours after I heard it, NK James won a MacArthur Genius Award,
1:04.4	which made me feel super in the know.
1:07.2	And that same day, TK hosted an episode of NPR's Life Kit
1:11.3	about how to do a career change and a big chunk of that episode was
1:15.8	about her transition to becoming a radio producer after 15 years as a nurse and I was like, oh, I think I know who I want to debrief 2020 with.
1:27.0	This is an arm and a leg, a show about the cost of health care.
1:32.0	I'm Dan Weissman. I'm a reporter and I like a challenge.
1:34.8	So my job on this show is to take one of the most
1:37.2	enraging, terrifying, depressing issues in American life and bringing you something
1:41.5	entertaining, empowering, and useful.
	...

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