Podcasts are the millennial audio books is what I’m told; however, I love listening to a good audiobook on a long car ride or listening to a podcast when I get tired of hearing my music in the car. One podcast that I’ve been listening to recently is called Science Vs. It’s on the apple podcast app is you look it up. They pretty much talk about controversial topics around healthcare and the medical field primarily. It’s basically really funny and makes you borderline uncomfortable to listen to because of the difficulty of the conversation. But that’s good!! We should be talking about the hard things.
A few months ago, one of the professors from Berry sent me a post on Instagram that this podcast was looking for people with type 1 diabetes to interview. So I sent them an email and said I’d be happy to talk with them,I love sharing my story hoping to educate and relate to as many people as possible. I ended interviewing with them and they reached out to me a couple of weeks ago to let me know that my interview was picked for one to actually be used on the episode. SO COOL. My claim to fame.
From what I understand, the episode is comparing the healthcare system in the UK to the healthcare system here in the US. They chose to use type 1 diabetes as the disease to compare how everything is handled. We talked about insurance, coverage, the cost, we even talked about other barriers, research, the social aspect. I have no idea what part of my interview will be used, I have no idea what other people said, I have no idea what is going to happen.
But WHAT. A. BIG. STEP. This major podcast is getting type 1 diabetes out there!!! They are basically going to say how HARD it is to get insulin, how expensive it is, how people RATION IT!!! They are exposing this disease that CANNOT BE CONTROLLED but the patients with it are TORTURED by insurance, lack of knowledge, policies, and so much more that people don’t realize!!
Y’all. I’m so excited. The episode is releasing December 12th and will be on Science Vs. Let me know what you think!