Episode 1337
To Not-Jordan, I love you. I love your podcasts. I listen fairly religiously, however- I get frustrated when you have people talking about issues that may or may not include medical topics. I’ve asked this before: why do you always use a Ph.D “expert” ???? I swear I’ve never heard a podcast with a medical doctor!!! This episode SO pissed me off. There were two throw away (very condescending) lines that just really upset me. Can’t remember the quote but it was along the lines that “chronic pain people on meds are just addicts.” Do you have ANY idea how offensive that is? And then the poo-poo ing the GLP/GIP classification of meds, I could HEAR the eye roll on my radio.
I appreciate you have someone with a different perspective and I am someone that doesn’t believe there is such a disease as fibromyalgia (or chronic fatigue for that matter).
The fact that your guest ignored the spondylitis and went on with life? Yay for her. But insinuating that autoimmune diseases are from trauma is insulting to my TWO type 1 diabetic children. Diagnosed at 2 and 14. Can you tell me what trauma caused my 2 year old’s pancreas to stop working? I’ve always felt that you are anti medicine, which, as a nurse, is deflating. I’m not going to stop listening to your podcast or not recommend it to others, but I wanted to perhaps make you aware that there are medical diseases that are real. Medicine is no poison and taking medication is not “doing drugs” or having your body be physically dependent on a medication the same as being an addict. Sorry for the long vent/rant but as a human being who has legit medical issues but continues on, works as someone who cares for others and gets beat up physically and mentally and emotionally on the daily, having someone you respect be so flip about certain things is hard. Why do you never have a medical doctor on? Have them discuss the destruction of our healthcare system and the way healthcare workers are being treated. Only ones worse are teachers. I wish I was more clever and could come up with a Gabe-type sign off 😉