More than a grieving widower: Michael, Part 2!
The WoMed
Podcast Nation
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to Part 2 of the conversation with Michael! This week, your hosts dive into his experience with the healthcare industry, which goes beyond just the grieving widower he is labeled as. He talks about his appreciation for nurses, and how he believes they are the backbone of healthcare. He also is incredibly educated on the faults in the system, but expresses how everyone is just reacting to something they’re being forced to do; while everyone wants to villainize part of the chain, it doesn’t work that way. He also discusses his FDA approved patent (casual) which he developed with his late wife for a topical therapeutic that would offset a treatment side effect, Hand-foot syndrome. Building a lab in his basement, he ran a small clinical trial, submitted his patent in 2019, and received it just a few months ago. Reducing the suffering of others with this therapeutic, that worked for his wife, is one of the many ways she lives on. This episode truly offers a look into Michaels heart, and we are so grateful to him for having this conversation with The WoMed community.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by Podcast Nation. |
| 0:16.3 | All right, welcome back to part two of the woman with my super hot boyfriend. I'm sorry, if that's |
| 0:25.1 | getting old, I can't help it. I like to make him awkward and talk about what he is because it's true. |
| 0:30.6 | Yeah, what else do you like? I will say it's really charming how obsessed with each other you two are. |
| 0:36.3 | Like, it's almost nauseating.'m so sorry i know i know i like |
| 0:40.8 | actually worry about that when i'm when i'm posting and stuff i'm like oh my god people are going to be |
| 0:45.0 | like yeah we get it you have a boyfriend and finally get it you're like in love did you yes |
| 0:50.6 | bar whatever fucking let people be happy, everybody. |
| 0:54.7 | Yeah. |
| 0:55.2 | I know. Oh, my God. Life is hard. It is true, though. It is almost not. Like, you guys are super in love. It's really fucking cute. It's so fucking special, Jack. It is. Okay, so we were kind of talking about this. Jack's in, like, a different sort of, like, dating space right now. And I'm getting caught up with these stories. |
| 1:12.5 | This is the first time I've met Jack in person. different sort of like dating space right now and I'm getting caught up with these stories |
| 1:12.4 | this is the first time I've met Jack in person and I'm living vicariously through this woman's life what |
| 1:18.1 | what am I not providing for you no well you know like I'm like you're like I feel like I'm like |
| 1:24.7 | the little sister that's like going through her like crazy college dating years. I'm loving it. It's exciting. And then I'm sitting here like, no, like I've been where you are. This is what you actually want. Yeah, I don't know about maybe not right at the moment. But yeah, but no, you're totally right. You go have fun. Because Michael and I've talked about this. Like, if we would |
| 1:44.5 | have met earlier, we would not have worked because I was looking for dirty musicians. |
| 1:53.1 | Yeah, it wouldn't have fit the bill, I guess. No, we are not letting this podcast getting turned |
| 1:57.7 | around onto my dating life because there's too much to talk about there. But we have questions. No, no, no, no. We're not heading that direction. I'm real in this shit back in, okay? Okay. So obviously the WOMED community is a wonderful group of a lot of health care workers. We have a lot of nurses, doctors, PAs, NPs. We have everybody, all the things, yes. And we welcome and love them all. So being a nurse is a part of Danielle's identity. I think once you're a nurse, it's a part of all of our identities, regardless of where we're working, what we're doing. Or how healthy that is. Yeah, I know. I'm like, I'm going to have to call my therapist later. She's |
| 2:35.5 | going to be like, what? Yes, but it is part of our identities in a way. We get into a profession |
| 2:40.3 | of helping people. We're healers. Yeah. And Michael, obviously, you have had to navigate the |
| 2:46.4 | health care system. When you knew that, when you found out that Danielle was a nurse, I'm sure you knew that |
| 2:51.6 | ahead of time before going onto the beach. What kind of impressions did you have about that? And how did |
| 2:57.5 | that evolve to now, to now seeing Danielle going into work and applying for jobs? Yeah, I think that's a |
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