M&M - Marx & Medicine

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 and delays in care, and make some comparisons to how other countries ‘do’ healthcare. follow Marcus on In...

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) in Gaza & Iran is reflected in our own struggle against privatized healthcare at home. outro music: son...

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 you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.marxisma...

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 discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.marxismandmedicine.com

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 camps, and beyond. oh there’s also tax cuts for the rich (there’s always fuckn tax cuts for the rich)....

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 to bonus episodes, visit www.marxismandmedicine.com

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 GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/transform-ibrahims-life-rebuilding-the-future outro music: three...

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 bonus episodes, visit www.marxismandmedicine.com

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 you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.marxism...

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

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 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/29/radical-far-left-kamala-harriss-policies-are-just-common-sense-to-most-americans https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/1000434?form=fpf please consider donating to help Amer (@amer...

#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 to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.marxismandmedicine.com

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 rely on trite notions of individual physical & psychological consciousness, or consumer choices on the ma...

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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 subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.marxismandmedicine.com

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 get access to bonus episodes, visit www.marxismandmedicine.com

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 care or health worker wellbeing but stock prices for healthcare capitalist vultures? we round things ou...

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, mass killings, and other phenotypic manifestations of a reactionary resurgence in the US. outro: new ea...

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 United States. how are today’s moral values embedded in the ways in which we talk (or don’t) about deat...

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 into what it offers, what people who have worked at Cerebral thought of it, and where it fits into the...

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 discourse surrounding ‘Biden Bucks’ aka the loan forgiveness relief that’s been percolating in the zeitgeist...

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 error. we welcome back nurse homie and union thug Rach (aka “Just Some Nurse”) to discuss the timeline of e...

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 in rural america. SHOUTOUT STANFORD HOUSESTAFF ON THEIR UNION WIN!!!!!!!!!!!! and a special welcome 2 a...

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 episode on transportation without talking a little bit about elon musk. to skip ahead to the episode’s ‘c...

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 healthcare. Gilles Deleuze - Postscript on the Societies of Control intro: created by fidel cashtho outro:...