Season 2, episode 15:
In this episode of the "Words That Make Us" podcast, Rama and Tony discuss the topic of “Sickness”. This promises to be an episode of fun discussions, varied readings of pain and hilarity, and a few statistics to boot! They discuss questions such as: why do men not go to the doctor’s? Can prayer really relieve pain? What poems, depressing and funny alike, have they found for you? And what are some funny stories doctors have told about patients? Also, what would Marcus Aurelius say about sickness if he was alive today?
Men don’t go to the doctor
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1121551/Dr Gabor Mate on addiction
https://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/23606-what-ails-us
Tulips by Sylvia Plath
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49013/tulips-56d22ab68fdd0
Sick by Shel Silverstein
Funny stories by doctors:
https://www.boredpanda.com/funny-doctor-patient-stories/
Stoic response to sickness - an AI Marcus Aurelius response
On Pain by Gibran Khalil Gibran
Assisted suicide In Germany
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/1000135?form=fpf
https://www.dw.com/en/assisted-suicide-germany-weighs-autonomy-and-ethics/a-66111477
In sickness and in health
https://www.structuralheartjournal.org/article/S2474-8706(24)00034-4/fulltext
https://www.diw.de/documents/publikationen/73/diw_01.c.801752.de/diw_sp1110.pdf
Walking Around by Pablo Neruda
https://allpoetry.com/Walking-Around
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