When your life depends on it
This Is Uncomfortable
Marketplace
4.6 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2019
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
After a rare cancer diagnosis, one family’s battle with insurance and pharmaceutical companies, and the endless bureaucracy, teaches them about the price tag the medical system can put on a person’s life.
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| 0:37.0 | You know those conversations you play over and over and over in your head, but find really difficult to actually have? |
| 0:44.0 | That's exactly what Death, Sex, and Money does. |
| 0:47.0 | It gets those thorny issues out into the open. |
| 0:50.0 | It's hosted by Anna Sal, who has surprisingly comfortable conversations with her guests about uncomfortable topics. |
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| 1:22.0 | As a pediatrician, Abbey Mason-Brank is not at all shy about bodies. |
| 1:29.0 | It's like so a part of the regular workflow is to like look at body parts and talk about |
| 1:37.0 | ping and pooping and so it's like super fine. |
| 1:41.0 | Abbey works at a hospital in Kansas City, Missouri, just a few miles from where she grew up. |
| 1:46.0 | Her job is to deal with sickness, so she's got pretty tough skin. |
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