EPISODE · May 27, 2026 · 5 MIN
The Disease We Stopped Looking At
from Untold Stories · host Pham
This episode reviews Everything Is Tuberculosis as a rare kind of nonfiction: accessible, angry, tender, and built around a disease many readers may think belongs to the past. John Green turns tuberculosis into a story about history, poverty, medicine, policy, and the moral failure of letting curable suffering continue. In three minutes, the episode asks why the book works so well when it stays close to one patient’s life, and why its biggest weakness may be that the scale of the crisis is almost too large for one book to hold.
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This episode reviews Everything Is Tuberculosis as a rare kind of nonfiction: accessible, angry, tender, and built around a disease many readers may think belongs to the past. John Green turns tuberculosis into a story about history, poverty, medicine, policy, and the moral failure of letting curable suffering continue. In three minutes, the episode asks why the book works so well when it stays close to one patient’s life, and why its biggest weakness may be that the scale of the crisis is almost too large for one book to hold.
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