Show 1341: Lessons Learned from Long Illness

The People's Pharmacy

Joe and Terry Graedon

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Kids & Family, Alternative Health

4.5 • 934 Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2023

⏱️ 68 minutes

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You may not have thought much about long illness, but chances are you know someone who is suffering with one. The CDC estimates that some chronic condition afflicts as many as one in six American adults. That could be more than 130 million people. What counts as a long illness? Now, as experts declare that […]

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0:00.0	I'm Joe Gradyton and I'm Terry Grady. Welcome to this podcast of the People's Pharmacy.
0:06.1	You can find previous podcasts and more information on a range of health topics at people's pharmacy.com.
0:15.0	Conditions that persist for many years pose a challenge for modern medicine.
0:20.0	How well do doctors manage long illnesses?
0:23.6	This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Grady. Persistent Lyme Disease, long-covid fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome are often
0:39.4	overwhelming for patients.
0:41.6	That's because there are no widely accepted treatments.
0:44.0	Health care providers may feel unprepared to manage some of these seemingly invisible illnesses.
0:50.0	What could they do differently?
0:52.0	When doctors have personal experience with long lasting symptoms,
0:55.0	it may change their perspective.
0:57.0	Our guest today has a medical degree, a PhD,
1:00.0	and her own life's journey with long illness.
1:03.0	Coming up on the People's Pharmacy,
1:05.0	Lessons Learn from Long Illness. In the People's Pharmacy Health Headlines, one of the first tools people's
1:17.0	people used to try to cut the transmission of COVID-19 was the very old practice of covering the
1:24.9	nose and mouth with a mask.
1:26.8	During the 1918 influenza pandemic, this was one of the few ways public health officials
1:32.4	attempted to slow the spread of the disease.
1:35.5	This week, two new studies have been published evaluating the effectiveness of this practice.
1:41.2	Such assessments are difficult because there are many different kinds of
1:44.8	masks. Some may be more effective than others in protecting against an airborne
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