You shouldn't have to choose between filling your prescriptions and paying bills | Kiah Williams

Body Stuff with Dr. Jen Gunter

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Health & Fitness

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2022

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

There’s a new episode out of Body Stuff for subscribers of TED Audio Collective + on Apple Podcasts; subscribe there for early access to Body Stuff and more. Otherwise see you here next week for more episodes that bust the lies you’re told and sold about your health.

And today, we’re sharing an episode of TED Health, another podcast in the TED Audio Collective. As prescription drug costs skyrocket in the US, thousands of people are forced to forgo lifesaving medications—all while manufacturers and health care facilities systematically destroy perfectly good, surplus pills. Kiah Williams shares how SIRUM—a nonprofit that delivers unused medications to families who need them most—plans to drive down prescription prices by recycling almost a billion dollars’ worth of medications in the next five years. After the talk, hear from radiation oncologist Dr. Fumiko Chino, in conversation with TED Health host Dr. Shoshana Ungerleider, on her heartfelt and tireless work investigating the high cost of medical care. If you like the episode, you can find more episodes of TED Health by following the show wherever you’re listening to this.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective
0:06.6	Hi, it's Dr. Jen here.
0:08.6	So something a little different today.
0:10.5	This is an episode of Ted Health, another podcast from the Ted Audio Collective.
0:16.0	Join Dr. Shoshana Ungerlider as she finds and discusses
0:20.6	fascinating Ted talks in the health space.
0:23.4	From tips on smart daily habits to ideas about new medical breakthroughs,
0:28.4	Dr. Shoshana Ungerlider is asking how we can live healthier lives.
0:32.8	Here's an episode we thought you'd enjoy, and if you want to hear more,
0:36.4	you can find and follow Ted Health wherever you're listening to this.
0:42.4	Hi and welcome to Ted Health. I'm Dr. Shoshana Ungerlider.
0:47.9	In today's episode, we'll hear from Kia Williams on her mission to make prescriptions more affordable.
0:54.3	Kia will explain why tons of perfectly good prescriptions
0:57.4	end up destined for the landfill and explain how she's working to reroute them
1:02.0	into the hands of patients who need them most.
1:04.5	Then stick around after the talk for an interview with the incredible Dr. Fumago Chino
1:10.0	about her unusual journey into the world of medicine and why she's become a big advocate
1:15.8	for affordable treatments.
1:20.0	Every day in this country, families are forced to make impossible choices
1:24.9	when it comes to their health care. Like Kimberly, who said,
1:30.2	there was times I had to choose between my food and my pills.
1:34.5	It wasn't luxury stuff because I didn't make that much.
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