15. Words That Make Us: Sickness

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

https://poets.org/poem/sick

 

Funny stories by doctors:

https://www.boredpanda.com/funny-doctor-patient-stories/

 

Stoic response to sickness - an AI Marcus Aurelius response

https://www.stoicsimple.com/stoic-advice-on-health-problems-illness-ask-marcus-aurelius/#:~:text=Instead%20of%20dwelling%20on%20your,the%20natural%20order%20of%20things.

 

On Pain by Gibran Khalil Gibran

https://poets.org/poem/pain-1

 

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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