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M&M - Marx & Medicine
by M&M - Marx & Medicine
sign in/grab a slice/and join us at noon for M☭M, where your chiefs present an analysis of the medical-industrial complex - through a Marxist lens. www.marxismandmedicine.com
Episodes
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Episode 35 - Marcusism & Medicine: A Conversation With Dr. Marcus Tellez
a guest? a guest! we welcome long-time friend of the show Dr. Marcus Tellez to the program to discuss his experience as a primary care physician and how he navigates the American healthcare system. we cover tools of the devil like prior authorization and step therapy, ever-worsening wait times…
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Episode 34 - "M"pire & "The 'Muz:" They Finally F***in Did It Man
i just can’t imagine how excited John McCain is right now. oh yeah he’s dead nvm. anywho fidel & bae ‘comin atcha’ with some news and analysis of the US/Israeli war on Iran as well as how the continued destruction of schools and healthcare facilities by ‘the Great Satan’ (not my words of course)…
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Episode 33 - Meditations on the Movement: Ceasefire 2, the Dying Empire, and New Institutions
fidel and bae discuss the “ceasefire” in Gaza, the unraveling of the rules-based international order, (non-)violence, and the future of M&M. https://www.thenation.com/article/world/trump-venezuela-attacks-liberal-order/# outro: revelation 420 - Algernon Cadwallader This is a public episode. If…
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Episode 32 - Mobilizing Medicine: Gaza, Healthcare, & Our Collective Responsibility
fireside chat with fidel and bae. Gaza & manufacturing famine, Professionalism & manufacturing behavior, primitive accumulation & manufacturing extraction, etc. etc. The Grandeur of Yasser Arafat by Gilles Deleuze outro music: mangetout by Wet Leg This is a public episode. If you would like to...
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Episode 31 - Medicaid & Migrants: The One, Big, Bitch of a Bill
of course we ‘had to do it to em.’ Bae & Fidel discuss how H.R.1, or the ‘one big beautiful bill act,’ has its fingerprints not only on healthcare concerns such as Medicaid, the ACA marketplace, and rural care, but also on immigration enforcement that will color the future of ICE raids, detention...
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Episode 30 - Medicare & Mangione: M4A, "MA4A" (?), and UnitedHealth~Scare~
Fidel and Bae have a fireside chat and read a few articles. names mentioned: John Conyers, Bernie Sanders, Debbie Dingell, RFK Jr., Dr. Oz, Casey Means, Luigi Mangione, Andrew Witty, Bryan Thompson. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access…
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Episode 29 - Mashallah, Martyrs! A Ceasefire is Born, ByeByeBiden
Fidel, Bae, & Sigmund review the most recent 500 days of genocide in Gaza (~12:00), discuss the ceasefire agreement (~28:20), and then have a little more fun reflecting on Joe Biden’s overall disastrous tenure as the 46th president (~1:16:00). Amer’s GoFundMe: https://gofund.me/44940775 Ibrahim’s...
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Episode 28 - Mickey D's & Mango: Donald Trump's League of Goofy Ass And Extraordinary Gentlemen
from old cronies to fresh parasocial bonds, our heroes navigate some of Trump’s baffling appointments to key healthcare positions in his upcoming 2nd administration. outro: terra by geordie greep This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to...
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Episode 27 - Mass Miscalculation: Neocon Maxxxing & the Democrat Demolition
a lot of talk of post-election blues, but not here folks; much to discuss & much to do as the gang returns to discuss Kamala Harris’s disastrous campaign for President and where we go from here. https://palestineaction.org/ outro: love me, i’m a liberal by Phil Ochs This is a public episode. If…
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Episode 26 - Murder by Missile: Who is Hassan Na$rallah?
a BOYZ ONLY Fireside Chat on Hezb0llah & the assassination of Hassan Nasrallah music: alesis by Mk.gee a whiter shade of pale by Shigeo Sekito This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.marxismandmedicine.com
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Episode 25 - Mr. Morale & the Big Lepers: Israel, Bernie Sanders, & Art Caplan
the gang reads a few articles and has some fun wit it https://www.jezebel.com/health-care-workers-say-conditions-for-pregnant-people-in-gaza-are-getting-worse...
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Episode 24 - "Marksmen" & Misses: Damb, Donald Trump Almost Died!!!!!!!
#PACKALERT #PACKNOTICE #PACKSIGNAL the gang does the obligatory post-Trump-almost-assassination coverage. for all our enemies, remember that this is also a comedy podcast in addition to a political podcast so nothing we say counts and that’s on period This is a public episode. If you would like…
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Episode 23 - Mossad Mindset: Wellness in the Time of Gen0cide
today Bae leads us as we get into the wellness industry in the context of Western/Zionist imperial dominance and how colonizer frameworks undergird seemingly unrelated facets of economics, culture, and technology. who is allowed to be well? should the ability to live a safe and meaningful life…
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Episode 22 - MASS MURDERER: HENRY KISSINGER IS DEAD
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Episode 21 - Milky & Monomaniacal: Bryan Johnson, 'Theory' & 'Practice'
kickstarting our ‘health and wellness’ miniseries and just in time for halloween, we discuss the deeply disturbing ‘project’ that is Bryan Johnson - a 46 year old multi-millionaire hellbent on staying young and horny forever. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other...
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Episode 20 - More Misses: Student Loan Debt 'Part 2'
as the spiritual successor to our discussion from episode 15, we break down yet another L for student loan borrowers and the Biden administration by the Supreme Court. outro: whitehouse road by Tyler Childers This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or…
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Episode 19 - Musings on Medscape
today we review some articles. first one is from Medscape, who has seemingly lost the plot with several recent, absolutely bizarre offerings. we also discuss some ‘market activity’ involving health insurance companies and hospitals - don’t you love it when the most important thing is not patient...
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Episode 18 - Madness & Mass Shootings: Gun Violence in the Imperial Core
well, the shootings start comin and they don’t stop comin… in the wake of the recent mass violence event in Texas, we talk mass shootings - primarily dissecting the active ideological choice State actors make of placing ‘mental health’ at the center of bourgeois discourse regarding gun violence,...
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Episode 17 - M.A.I.D. in 'Merica: Dying for a Postmodern Age feat. Kristel Jax
we welcome esteemed friend of the pod and M&M’s official Canadian Correspondent Kristel Jax to the show to discuss - in broad terms - concepts, movements, and nascent legal structures encompassing the ‘right to die,’ Medical Assistance In Dying, and (Physician) Assisted Suicide in Canada and the...
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Episode 16 - Monthly Subs & Mental Health: A 'Focused Look' at Cerebral
shiver me fingers !!!! (it’s cold now and happy christmas) in between visits from Skinner and a WiFi cut-out plotted by our most despised enemies, Sigmund Fraud leads our discussion on Cerebral, an online medication/therapy service self-described as ‘expert help for your emotional health.’ we go...
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Episode 15 - Manipulation & Med Student Loans: Joe Brandon's Infinite Debt
FRIENDSHIP ENDED WITH ‘SUMMER’ NOW ‘THE RETURN OF M&M’ IS MY BEST FRIEND since we last saw our heroes, Fidel started a locums job, Sigmund became the spiritual and material successor to Matthew Lesko, and Bae stayed ‘lowkey eating’ in ‘the cut’ (at Whataburger) we decided to ca$h in on the...
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Episode 14 - Midazolam & Muscle Relaxants: The RaDonda Vaught Trial
by now, most of us have at least heard of RaDonda Vaught and the cover-up by Vanderbilt University Medical Center of the tragic death of Charlene Murphey. on March 25 2022, RaDonda was found guilty of criminally negligent homicide and abuse of an impaired adult in the context of a medication…
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Episode 13 - Healthcare in Nowhere: Dispossessed & Forsaken in Rural America
AND WE BACK AND WE BACK AND WE BACK AND WE BACK [x1,000] the gang returns mfers!!!!!!!!!! (sorry that was 2 long 2 be away) Fidel is board certified, Sigmund grows their hair out and leaves the polycule because nobody noticed, and Bae puts on his ‘presenter’ hat to give us a peek into healthcare…
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Episode 12 - Musings on Movement; Transportation, or: Can I Please Pokémon GO To My PCP Appointment
Sigmund is the train conductor of today’s episode, next stop hell u mfers!!!!! on the way, we’ll hear about transportation, its history, and its relationship to healthcare and other human needs. we’ll also get some comparisons on how other countries are doing - and of course, we couldn’t do an...
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Episode 11 - McDonalds® & Mastercard®: Food Systems and the Individualization of Struggle
after analyzing various fast food kids meals in fastidious rapture (coming soon to the patreon-only feed!!), the gang dissects food production and consumption under a capitalist paradigm, its vicissitudes during the neoliberal turn, and how struggles for food sovereignty relate to health and...
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Episode 10 - 🚨~EMERGENCY POD~🚨 Of Strikes & Scabs (feat. Alex & Rach)
🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨e-pod🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 medical instagram has recently been popping off over the current milieu of ‘strike fever’ happening across healthcare, as well as...
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Episode 9.5 - Housing First For All Pt. 2
what do u want from me? it’s the 2nd part of the housing episode. https://mcmansionhell.com/ [inhale] decommodify needs. [exhale] decommodify needs. decommodify needs. intro: created by fidel cashtho outro: little blu house - unknown mortal orchestra This is a public episode. If you would like to...
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Episode 9 - Moralism & Moratoriums: The Real Estate State
in an episode some would already dub an M&M “classic” (although some commenters classify ALL M&M episodes as “classics”), Sigmund leads us through an analysis of homelessness and the rampant moralizations surrounding it, the housing ‘crisis,’ and beyond. we also throw in the large wrench that is...
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Episode 8 - More the Merrier: There's Power in a Union (feat. Alex & Rach)
IT’S THE UNION EPISODE we welcome our first ever (!!) guests to the M☭M podcast, 2 union thugs named Alex and Rachael, to chat about unions. what is a union? should i join one? START one? how would it benefit me? why are the bosses so against them? is everything i learned about unions growing up...
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Episode 7 - MAOi & Meperidine: The Protocols of the Elders of Libby Zion
🎶 u may tire of me 🎶 // 🎶 as our december sun is setting 🎶 // 🎶 ‘cause i'm not who i used 2 be 🎶 summer break is over and M&M is back! welcome babies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sigmund leads today on the unfortunate death of Libby Zion - a famous case that most docs and many people in healthcare...
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Episode 6.67 - Academic Half-Day #2, part 3: The Private Payers of Healthcare
i know, i know - an hour and 40 minute long part 3???? it’s worth it brothers and sisters. (maybe? that’s what they told me at least) today we wrap up our long discussion on the payers of healthcare by dissecting specifically the PRIVATE payers - the private health insurance industry we all know...
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Episode 6.5 - Academic Half-Day #2, part 2: The Public Payers of Healthcare
oh happy day (oh happy day)! it’s finally nice out and you know what that means. yes friends, part 2 of academic half-day #2 is here. we discuss the payers of healthcare, specifically the public sector payers. Medicare, Medicaid, the Indian Health Service, CHIP, the VA.. there’s actually quite a...
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Episode 6 - Academic Half-Day #2: Buyers & Payers / Who "Finances" Healthcare?
welcome back friends! it’s session #2 of our Academic Half-Day series, and today we’re continuing our exploration of the Medical-Industrial Complex by dissecting how we buy & pay for healthcare - the other half of the dialectic that is reflected in the question of how we provide & administer...
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Episode 5 - Monday in March: A People's History of "The Match"
Bae outs Fidel as a literal mosquito, Fidel does an awful impression of the ‘southern West Virginia dialect’ of his youth, and Sigmund guides us through a cursed episode on the history of every medical student’s favorite gameshow: “The Match!” …apologies for the shaky audio quality on this one....
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Episode 4.5 - Academic Half-Day #1, part 2: What is the "Medical-Industrial Complex?"
in part 2 of our introduction to the medical-industrial complex, we move on from our philosophic and social analysis of society and focus in on the economics - the ownership, production, and distribution of resources that meet the material wants and needs of society. we set out to define some…
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Episode 4 - Academic Half-Day #1: What is the "Medical-Industrial Complex?"
good afternoon everybody - please find a seat. i hope your morning was full of rewarding patient care and skillful documentation. welcome to Academic Half Day, a new long-form recurring series that takes a considerably deep dive into the intricacies that inform our position not only as healthcare...
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Episode 3.5 - Private Equity Pt. 2
in part 2, the gang wraps up their presentation on private equity - an entity that is eternally in dialectical relation to seemingly unrelated things: upcoding, out-of-network providers, political economy, and - most importantly - helicopter insurance. we relate the importance of understanding…
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Episode 3 - Monetize & Move on: Private Equity Rules Everything Around Me
the gang accidentally endorses Passive Suicidal Ideation as the official State ideology of M&M, but then gracefully recovers with a grand rounds-style presentation on the pervasive creep of Private Equity into healthcare. just what is this elite sub-class of vampiric capitalist bastards up to? u...
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Episode 2 - Moguls & McRibs: There Is A Spectre Haunting Hahnemann
bae rightly scolds fidel and sigmund for fomenting chaos at mcdonalds (trying the mcrib), but sigmund redeems herself by presenting a terrific case study of the historical rise and fall of Hahnemann University Hospital (Rest In Power) in Philly. winners: real estate moguls and private equity...
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Episode 1.5 - Philanthrocrap Pt. 2
in part 2, we finish our discussion on philanthrocapitalism, as well as attempt to explore what 'democracy' actually means, what it should include, and what it might actually look like. music: bill gates must die - john vanderslice This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with...
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Episode 1 - Megabillionaires & Misérables: Philanthrocapitalism in the Imperial Core
fidel's partner gets laid off, sigmund fraud has another simpsons reference, and bae guevara presents our discussion of a little something called philanthrocapitalism - the space our modern business aristocracy inhabits at the intersection of charitable giving and profitable ventures. doesn't...
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Episode 0.5 - Moderates & MAGA: Election Week in America
we couldn't resist bringing you this special *~EMERGENCY POD~* folks. it's politics time in America, and it's looking like uncle joe is stealing the throne from the danged cheeto. Helen Killer, Bae Guevara, & Fidel Cashtho discuss the conservative meltdown over Jo Jorgensen aka "Yo Yorgensen" aka...
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Episode 0 - Marx & Medicine: Healthcare From The Left
Welcome to our pilot episode of M&M! Kirby Sigston, Lord Gaddafi, & Maximilien Zapata explore the thrilling world of presidential candidates’ healthcare platforms. Sources: Trump: https://www.promiseskept.com/achievement/overview/healthcare/ Joe’s Vision: https://joebiden.com/healthcare/ Howie...
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Medicine: Utopian and Scientific [4/19/20]
this serves as a bridge from the podcast formerly known as 'reunion.' this episode covers Friedrich Engels's seminal text - Socialism: Utopian and Scientific (1880). using this pamphlet, we explore how we should interpret modern day capital-M Medicine through a Marxist lens. just like you see...
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reunion 4: OSHIT-19 [3/15/20]
what's good yall? (nothing right now to be exact.) #1 & #2 are back in this admittedly long ass episode where we dissect COVID-19, its implications on our healthcare system, and (importantly) the potentially drastic social-economic effects on the world's most vulnerable people. stock exchange is...
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reunion 3: the social/structural determinants of health [2/15/20]
welcome back to our 2-part special on the medical-industrial complex... part 2. today #1 returns to center an important piece of modern propaganda - the individualisation of struggle - which tells us that our choices alone determine our future, while ignoring the collective economic shitstorm of...
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reunion 2: the new hippocratic oath [2/7/20]
this episode is brought 2 u by an edited prior recording from #1. this is part 1 on the medical-industrial complex, its immense flaws, its destructive capabilities, and how it relates to clinical healthcare workers and affects our relationships with our patients. as we explore this topic, we…
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reunion 1: welcome back to the reunion [1/30/20]
welcome to the reunion podcast! in episode 1, #1 and #2 sorta just wing it entirely (???) but end up chatting about waning physician autonomy and the increasing role of administrators at work, the ever-increasing cost of healthcare to patients/providers, and the political propaganda that…
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