Episode 47: Healthcare (Part 1)

Adulthood Friends

Special Guest: Dr. Simone Mendel. What makes a good healthcare system? Is healthcare a right or a privilege? In this episode, Aya and Josh are joined by childhood friend Simone Mendel, who shares her insights as an internal medicine doctor in Canada, as they reminisce about their shared history and the paths they took, examine the accuracy of TV medical dramas (House, Chicago Med), and discuss various aspects of the healthcare systems in the US and Canada, including health outcomes, waiting times, health insurance, tiered systems, clinical trials, inefficiencies, billing structure, necessary vs. elective surgery, calling an ambulance, public vs. private healthcare, shift work, different departments/specialties, foreign healthcare systems, and fighting cancer.