The Health Care System Doesn’t Care About Health

In Recovery

Lemonada Media

Health & Fitness

4.8 • 718 Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

What started out as chronic pain for David Smith’s father, ended in a fatal opioid overdose. In the years that followed, David lost a brother and sister to opioids. Like so many families, David feels like the healthcare system failed his family. He tells Nzinga how he feared he would become his Dad one day. The two talk about intergenerational trauma, David’s fatherhood journey, and how we can redefine healthcare to actually prevent sickness instead of waiting to treat it.

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0:32.8	Hey everyone. Welcome to In Recovery. Today we're talking to my friend David Smith. David lost his father, his brother, and his sister to opioids. Those experiences led him to a career as a health care economist.
0:55.7	He's on a journey to find the ways we can fix our bankrupt and broken health care system,
1:00.8	and today we're going to talk about all of it.
1:03.8	Without further ado, welcome David to In Recovery.
1:08.5	Thank you, Dr. Inzinga Harrison.
1:12.3	That's right.
1:13.0	Call me doctor in public.
1:14.0	The whole time.
1:15.3	The whole time.
1:16.4	The entire podcast.
1:19.4	Thanks for having me.
1:26.6	First of all, I introduced you as a health care economist, and some people might have been like,
1:30.8	um, what? So if we were all in seventh grade, how would you describe a health care economist to us to make us understand it?
1:39.2	Yeah, I think the reason I've become okay with calling myself that is the real description of a
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