Going Deep with Linda Villarosa on Being Seen
Kelly Corrigan Wonders
Kelly Corrigan Show
4.8 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
It’s not that common for someone to retain her optimism even as she studies all the ways that health outcomes vary by race. Linda Villarosa, a solutions-based journalist and medical school professor, is such a woman. In this conversation, she pulls from a childhood of doing everything right and still feeling like a fly in the buttermilk as well as her early days in journalism where she was constantly coaching her Essence readers to just behave better. Now, she’s seeing a broader picture that includes both lots of kale and walking AND systemic changes to the way we deliver care.
Linda’s 5-star book, UNDER THE SKIN, was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.
This episode was made possible by PBS and AmeriHealth Caritas, which provides affordable health plans to millions.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Kelly Corrigan Wonders. I'm Kelly Corrigan and today I'm wondering about how we care for people in America |
| 0:15.7 | and I'm specifically curious about how we educate the people who care for all our citizens? |
| 0:22.6 | What are we teaching in medical schools? |
| 0:25.2 | And how might that help us improve the well-being of all? |
| 0:29.7 | My thought partner today is a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, a journalist who focuses |
| 0:34.4 | on solutions and a delightful optimistic student of American society. Her name is Linda Vierosa. |
| 0:42.4 | We talked in my apartment in front of three cameras |
| 0:45.0 | and a small crew set up for my PBS show, Tell Me More. |
| 0:49.0 | Join us for Kelly Corgan Wonders |
| 0:51.0 | and a conversation with the brilliant and lovable Linda Vierosa. Welcome back to Kelly Corrigan Wonders. I'm Kelly Corrigan. |
| 1:13.0 | Having a little money is good for your health. |
| 1:15.8 | We know intuitively and statistically that living in a safe home with clean water, |
| 1:21.0 | a full fridge, a decent mattress, makes it easier to learn in school and shine |
| 1:26.2 | at work. |
| 1:27.7 | Being poor is like having a disease that affects every day and every part of your life. But beyond poverty, |
| 1:35.2 | there's something more that shows up in every study and report like this plain |
| 1:41.4 | fact that wants our attention, a white woman with an eighth grade education |
| 1:47.0 | has a higher likelihood of surviving childbirth than a black woman with a master's degree. |
| 1:54.3 | Linda Vierosa taught me that. |
| 1:56.0 | She is a solution-based journalist who is drawing the national eye |
| 1:59.9 | to the difference in health outcomes |
| 2:01.8 | for people who have some money, no money, and people who are black. |
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