You look so good, a dusty man. What's up? Thank you. Thank you!

Now!

Thank you! This is hell.

manufacturing descent since 1996. This is hell. A couple weeks ago I asked you

listeners for your advice on how I can become unexhausted. I do not need advice on how

to relax. I'm very good at relaxing. But I have had the seemingly endless feeling of being

worn out or down or whatever direction you choose.

Turns out, maybe we all are suffering from some level of fatigue, considering the working lives we lead spending far too much

time on call or at work. The problem is fatigue cannot be measured or detected by medical instruments

and if it cannot be measured, then is it a disease? medical indeed ill. But what about the more subjective measure of how a patient is feeling?

Far too often, patients, how they feel and their feelings, are dismissed by medical professionals.

I mean, it makes sense with medical facilities increasingly understaffed with health care providers now working far longer shifts

They suffer from fatigue too and quick diagnoses based on algorithms makes sense when you have to care for so many.

It's not just health care providers, it's also home caregivers who are increasingly in demand

as underfunded, understaffed care facilities are proving to be inadequate for our aging population.

All of which means more fatigue, this time being suffered by family who are caring for

seniors, who themselves are likely battling fatigue from whatever illness they are fighting.

It's what happens when you have a privatized for-profit health care system that prioritizes the bottom line in a society that focuses on every malady as if it is an

individual concern and is disconnected from any larger social problems.

We'll talk fatigue and how that term in itself is a pejorative in a few when we speak with

historian of medicine in public health.

Emily K Abel, author of Sick and Tired and intimate history of fatigue, Emily is Professor Emerita of Public Health and Women's Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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