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A Patient Sans Patience

Episode 2 of the Nevertheless, Persisting: Life. Love. Long COVID. podcast, hosted by Dr. & Mr. Amy Blackstone, titled "A Patient Sans Patience" was published on September 24, 2025 and runs 32 minutes.

September 24, 2025 ·32m · Nevertheless, Persisting: Life. Love. Long COVID.

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Summary

We, like so many of you, are sick and tired of our broken healthcare system in the United States of America. In this episode, Amy reads a piece expressing her despair over the state of it. We discuss how disempowering it can feel to be a patient in this system. And we consider how Luigi Mangione's 2024 shooting of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson reflects similar feelings of disempowerment and also a rising class consciousness in the United States. Finally, Lance SHOCKS Amy by quoting a sociologist to HER and we even manage to have a few laughs.A PATIENT SANS PATIENCEI'm sick and tired of being sick and tiredSick and tired of medical forms and filings and faxes*Sick and tired of bureaucracies and bureaucratsSick and tired of treating symptoms, never causes or curesSick and tired of pollyanna pundits and politiciansSick and tired of systems and structures built by and for only the fortunate fewSick and tired of the sick and tired system that got us hereSick and tired of the sick and tired system that's keeping us hereSick and tired of the sick and tired system that hasn't a clue or a care to get us out*Does anyone else worry that an industry that's supposed to be cutting edge relies so heavily on faxes?Originally posted at https://substack.com/@neverthelesspersisting/note/c-102724456CITED IN THIS EPISODECommonwealth Fund: https://apps.urban.org/features/wealth-inequality-charts/Thiele Strong, Megan. "Support for Luigi Mangione Reflects Working Class Weariness of Top-Down Violence," Common Dreams, December 28, 2024.Turner, Bryan. 1992. Max Weber: From History to Modernity. New York: Routledge.Urban Institute: https://apps.urban.org/features/wealth-inequality-charts/Intro music: Humoresque by Antonín Dvořák from Suzuki Flute School Volume 3; Played proudly and poorly by Amy BlackstoneOutro music: Moon Over Ruined Castle by Rentarō Taki from Suzuki Flute School Volume 1; Played proudly and poorly by Amy BlackstoneFor more information, go to amyblackstonephd.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episode Description

We, like so many of you, are sick and tired of our broken healthcare system in the United States of America. In this episode, Amy reads a piece expressing her despair over the state of it. We discuss how disempowering it can feel to be a patient in this system. And we consider how Luigi Mangione's 2024 shooting of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson reflects similar feelings of disempowerment and also a rising class consciousness in the United States. Finally, Lance SHOCKS Amy by quoting a sociologist to HER and we even manage to have a few laughs.

A PATIENT SANS PATIENCE

I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired

Sick and tired of medical forms and filings and faxes*

Sick and tired of bureaucracies and bureaucrats

Sick and tired of treating symptoms, never causes or cures

Sick and tired of pollyanna pundits and politicians

Sick and tired of systems and structures built by and for only the fortunate few

Sick and tired of the sick and tired system that got us here

Sick and tired of the sick and tired system that's keeping us here

Sick and tired of the sick and tired system that hasn't a clue or a care to get us out

*Does anyone else worry that an industry that's supposed to be cutting edge relies so heavily on faxes?

Originally posted at https://substack.com/@neverthelesspersisting/note/c-102724456

CITED IN THIS EPISODE

  1. Commonwealth Fund: https://apps.urban.org/features/wealth-inequality-charts/
  2. Thiele Strong, Megan. "Support for Luigi Mangione Reflects Working Class Weariness of Top-Down Violence," Common Dreams, December 28, 2024.
  3. Turner, Bryan. 1992. Max Weber: From History to Modernity. New York: Routledge.
  4. Urban Institute: https://apps.urban.org/features/wealth-inequality-charts/

Intro music: Humoresque by Antonín Dvořák from Suzuki Flute School Volume 3; Played proudly and poorly by Amy Blackstone

Outro music: Moon Over Ruined Castle by Rentarō Taki from Suzuki Flute School Volume 1; Played proudly and poorly by Amy Blackstone

For more information, go to amyblackstonephd.com.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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