GETTING CURIOUS | Is There An Insulin Crisis Happening in the US? with Elizabeth Pfiester

Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness

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Science, Self-improvement, Comedy, Education, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 2 October 2019

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Elizabeth Pfiester is the founder and director of T1International, a non-profit run by people with and impacted by type 1 diabetes that does not take funding from the pharmaceutical industry. Elizabeth discusses what it’s like living with the disorder, her work fighting to put an end to the current crisis surrounding insulin prices, and why where you were born should not determine whether you live or die with diabetes. Follow T1International on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook @t1international. Find out what today’s guest and former guests are up to by following us on Instagram and Twitter @CuriousWithJVN. Transcripts for each episode are available at JonathanVanNess.com. Check out Getting Curious merch at PodSwag.com. Listen to more music from Quiñ by heading over to TheQuinCat.com. Jonathan is on Instagram and Twitter @JVN and @Jonathan.Vanness on Facebook. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Getting Curious, I'm Jonathan Van Ness and every week I sit down for a 40 minute conversation
0:07.4	sometimes it's marks I can't stop talking with a brilliant expert to learn all about
0:10.9	something that makes me curious.
0:12.5	On today's episode, I'm joined by Elizabeth Feister,
0:15.0	the founder and executive director of T1 International,
0:18.4	a nonprofit led by patients that does not accept funding
0:21.4	from the pharmaceutical industry and is fighting to put an end to the insulin price crisis.
0:25.8	Today we discuss what it's like to live with type 1 diabetes and the current crisis surrounding
0:29.7	insulin and pharmaceutical prices and what can be done to fix it.
0:33.0	Welcome.
0:35.0	Hi, thanks for having me.
0:37.0	Thank you so much for coming.
0:38.0	So you have an interesting cross-Atlantic origin story. Share, if you don't mind. Yes of course so I was born and
0:46.7	raised in the US in a small town and was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes when I
0:51.9	was four years old so that was pretty scary
0:54.4	kind of traumatic but I had access to what I needed to live and survive and can I
1:00.3	ask you like what like you remember like you were for like what happened?
1:05.6	Yeah so I remember bits and pieces but I had what they thought was the flu.
1:10.1	I was kind of you know the typical symptoms of type one are kind of flu-like, you're drinking a lot,
1:15.5	you're going to the bathroom a lot, you're eating a lot, and so doctors just kept saying,
1:21.0	oh it's the flu, it the flu and eventually finally my mom
1:24.3	pushed and pushed and by then I was in what they called D.K. A diabetic keto
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