M&M - Marx & Medicine

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

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 the pandemic, investigate the breadth of the CDC eviction moratorium, and critique what gives rise to t...

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 just propaganda? all these questions - and more - will be answered, along with other tidbits like etern...

🎶 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 have at least heard of - and how it eventually led to changes in physician residency training. work re...

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 and love (with household favorites like UnitedHealth, Aetna, Cigna), as well as the scam-fiction known...

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 large number of public payers within the United States healthcare system. but that’s not inherently a...

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 f or healthcare - the other half of the dialectic that is reflected in the question of how we provide & administer healthcare (which is coming up in session #3). ‘buckle the fuck up’ folks, because this session is a deep...

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. it’s the internet. they’re racist intro: created by fidel cashtho music: @21:34 Begin the Beguine by Art...

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 terms for our argument by investigating the public sector vs. private sector, market economy vs. planned e...

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 workers, but as prisoners of the hellish society known as Late Capitalism. this is our first offering...

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 the horrors and contradictions of late Modernity as * -a systemic, structural issue (the capitalist mode...

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 gotta hear it (because podcast) 2 believe it. tunes: intro: created by fidel cashtho closing music: C.R...

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 psychopaths, specifically Joel Freedman. losers: patients, students, healthcare and hospital workers, and i...

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

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 really make sense when you say it that way does it? yeah it actually doesn't. so why does it exist? we're...

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 "JoJo" and her surprising performance; liberals with terminal brain damage who are excited at the pros...

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 Hawkins - Green Party: https://www.gp.org/single_payer Jo Jorgenson - Libertarian Party: https://jo20.com...

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 throughout other sectors of society, the medical-industrial complex has its own division of labor and clas...

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 down, anxieties are up, and Clorox® is MIA. what's the best way to interpret a pandemic in the 21st cen...

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 society that plays a much bigger role in the poisoning of our social relationships in general. how do w...

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 should think about how we could create a New Hippocratic Oath - something that doctors can actually be prou...

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 obfuscates the reality of how badly we need a single payer healthcare system in the united states. us.reunion.n...