Newsmakers meet New Yorkers as host Brian Lehrer and his guests take on the issues dominating conversation in New York and around the world. This daily program from WNYC Studios cuts through the usual talk radio punditry and brings a smart, humane approach to the day's events and what matters most in local and national politics, our own communities and our lives. WNYC Studios is a listener-supported producer of other leading podcasts including Radiolab, On the Media, Death, Sex & Money, Nancy, and many others.
https://www.wnyc.org/shows/bl
Sickle Cell Anemia, Disparities in Care and the Late Rapper Prodigy
Mary Harris and Christopher M Johnson, WNYC health reporters, discuss their new podcast, The Realness, which takes listeners behind the rapper Prodigy’s music to his life with sickle cell anemia, revealing how his condition touched almost every part of his life.
Sickle cell anemia had a profound impact on Prodigy's life. @marysdesk says it used to be a childhood disease, bc people with sickle cell usually didn't make it past childhood, but activism from the Black Panthers + others extended the lives of patients.
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) July 23, 2018Completely agree about the struggles we face in the ER. There is a stigma associated with black adults requesting pain medication - they treat you like an addict before someone who needs care. I have a medical history binder that I bring with me to prove 2 the doctors it's real.
— Antisocialite (@acidholograms) July 23, 2018