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Glauc Talk: Can Free Medical School Fix the Primary Care Crisis?
It's just the two of us this week, which means we bounce between Star Wars, ageism in medicine, Mark Cuban's healthcare policy ideas, and the spleen. Kristin sent me a video about the Bajau people of Southeast Asia, a group of divers from Indonesia and the Philippines who have genetically evolved spleens that are 50% larger than average, which they use as an oxygen reservoir to dive 70 meters and hold their breath for up to 13 minutes, and look, I'm not saying I was wrong about the spleen, but I'm being forced to acknowledge it might have one useful function. We also talk about the…
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