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Rushion Interviews Dr. Cedrek McFadden on how to make better health decisions! · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: My next guest is Dr Cedric McFadden is a popular
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  Speaker 1: TV medical contributor for Black Health. Is a black health
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  Speaker 1: advocate and assistant professor of surgery. Dr McFadden graduated with
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  Speaker 1: honors with something that I did from Dxavier University of
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  Speaker 1: Louisiana and New Orleans down in the good food country
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  Speaker 1: and they and earned his medical degree from Temple University
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  Speaker 1: School of Medicine in Philadelphia, another great eating place as well.
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  Speaker 1: And man loves eat I think because he's now he's
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  Speaker 1: based in South Carolina. Today we'll be talking to about vaccines, variants,
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  Speaker 1: masking reinfections, antibodies, and coping with the loss of the copy,
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  Speaker 1: with loss and isolation. Please welcome to Money Making Conversations
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  Speaker 1: Master Class. Dr Cedric McFadden. How are you doing, sir?
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  Speaker 1: Thank you so much for having me. I'm honored to
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  Speaker 1: be one of your guests. Well, thank you, because I
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  Speaker 1: when I look at my medical history, sir, you know
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  Speaker 1: UM in eighteen ninety, You know, I always thought I
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  Speaker 1: was a guy who could like UM hell himself. You know.
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  Speaker 1: But if I got a cold, I just go outside
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  Speaker 1: and play basketball and just swing it out of me.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. And then then in the
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  Speaker 1: eighteen and my lung collapse and I stayed in the
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  Speaker 1: hospital for thirty days. So it was the first, uh,
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  Speaker 1: touch of immortality. I couldn't live for tapped into my
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  Speaker 1: life because I checked out of the hospital about three
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  Speaker 1: times and every time they said, we got to bring
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  Speaker 1: you back. We don't know what's wrong with you. And
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  Speaker 1: then in I I was diagnosed with cancer. And you
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  Speaker 1: know yourself, doctor, when you tell us aboudy that they
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  Speaker 1: have cancer, their life and my life did flash, you know,
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  Speaker 1: And it was it was a sudden sense of reality.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't even told me anything about it was it
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  Speaker 1: was curable. They just all I heard was cancer and
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  Speaker 1: it was tied to me and my body. And uh
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  Speaker 1: it was turned out to be thyroid cancer. And that
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  Speaker 1: was another surgical scar that was around my neck and
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  Speaker 1: they removed that and uh, birn the cancer out of me.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm still every year I go through checks. And
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  Speaker 1: then reached that I had a sweat gland tumor that
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  Speaker 1: we're moving the back of my head and so I
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  Speaker 1: got a scar here, scar here, scar on my back.
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  Speaker 1: Now these are visual physical scars. The pandemic a lot
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  Speaker 1: of left a lot of emotional scars tie to isolation
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  Speaker 1: and talk to us about that. Well, you're absolutely right.
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  Speaker 1: I think one of the scars and the challenges that
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  Speaker 1: people experienced after COVID, even during the pandemic, was sort
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  Speaker 1: of that feeling of being alone, whether that be you're
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  Speaker 1: stuck in the house, can't go out to work, or
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  Speaker 1: not interacting with your normal social circle. That's hard a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people. And it's it's hard because we're used
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  Speaker 1: to having time together with our family. We're used to
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  Speaker 1: having family unions, having dinners at church, and we stopped
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  Speaker 1: all of it, and that creates, you know, a scar
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  Speaker 1: you talk about, you know what creates the scar. Initially,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's the trauma, it's the it's the injury to
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  Speaker 1: this tissue, to the cells that they need eats too
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  Speaker 1: as it's healed, a residual presence. And often we're saying,
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  Speaker 1: even now that we're you know, getting to a different
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  Speaker 1: phase of the pandemic, you might say, uh, there's residual
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  Speaker 1: there's residual anxiety, whether it be just entering back into
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  Speaker 1: normal life there ever, it will be such a thing. Um,
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  Speaker 1: but often we're still finding challenges with you know, how
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  Speaker 1: our churches can come back together again, that's scar, right,
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  Speaker 1: How our students can come back together and play football,
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  Speaker 1: that's a scar. And how we make our lives continue
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  Speaker 1: despite the scars. So still real, you know, a present
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  Speaker 1: effect with this all that we're gonna have to continue
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  Speaker 1: to work through and follow kind of our science and
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  Speaker 1: making sure we're thinking of ourselves at the same time.
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  Speaker 1: You know, when you talk about a black health advocate,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you know, we know black people with notorious
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  Speaker 1: bad eaters. Fried food is our friend, you know. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: the high cholesterol is the silent killer in the black community.
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  Speaker 1: And uh, but now we're talking about mental health too,
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  Speaker 1: which falls into your genre. Becauld have to deal with that,
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  Speaker 1: and black people are starting that mitt they have mental
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  Speaker 1: issues that need to be handled. Why do you think
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  Speaker 1: that finally black people who say we have problems and
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  Speaker 1: we need to discuss them openly. I think we we've
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  Speaker 1: come to a place where we recognize that you can't
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  Speaker 1: ignore it. I mean, two thousand and twenty was a
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  Speaker 1: tough year and we it was reminiscent of what we saw,
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  Speaker 1: you know from videos from the sixties sort of civil
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  Speaker 1: rights where you can't ignore in your face UH graphic
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  Speaker 1: images of what's happening in front of us. And I
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  Speaker 1: think we got to a collective place, not only blacks,
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  Speaker 1: but all of the America that you know, we were
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  Speaker 1: having to deal with the trauma of it all. I
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  Speaker 1: think we've also understood more that we've had people who
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  Speaker 1: look like myself. We've been able to talk with UH
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  Speaker 1: media and talk with churches and schools and to open
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  Speaker 1: the door for the conversation about mental health, especially in person,
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  Speaker 1: to call it blacks and having you know, celebrities, and
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  Speaker 1: having people come forth talking about their troubles and having
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  Speaker 1: pastors we opened about their stroubles. We've understood that we
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  Speaker 1: all experience, all have challenges when it comes down to
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  Speaker 1: from mental health. We all have to find resolution and
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  Speaker 1: active process to help us move beyond it. Um. It's
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  Speaker 1: a welcome sight. Um. You can't continue to push towards
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  Speaker 1: greatness if you're often mentally pushing back years of stress
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  Speaker 1: and abuse and challenges. And so it's going to help
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  Speaker 1: us become strong. Owners can help us become better when
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  Speaker 1: we do push for it, and beyond that, we'll be
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  Speaker 1: right back with more money making conversations. Masterclass with Rushan
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  Speaker 1: McDonald Now let's return to Money Making Conversations Masterclass with
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  Speaker 1: Rashan McDonald Dr McFadden. You know, here's the thing, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the health contributor, and everything tends to come back at
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  Speaker 1: your doorstep. Okay. And we are the African American and
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  Speaker 1: the Brown community. We are a community of deniavers. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we denied the gay community. Guess what. We lead in
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  Speaker 1: AIDS infection, We deny our health habits, we lead in
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  Speaker 1: COVID deaths. You know what I'm saying. We didn't. We know,
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  Speaker 1: we deny that we need mental health. We lead in
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  Speaker 1: stress related illnesses. Denied, denied, deny. How can we stop denying?
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  Speaker 1: And then which in turn will call so is a
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  Speaker 1: live a healthier life? Starting with the gay community. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean it starts by first, um, acknowledging, acknowledging that
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  Speaker 1: there are problems. Even though you see these problems, if
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  Speaker 1: you don't acknowledge that exists, you'll never accept, and then
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  Speaker 1: work towards activating a solution for that problem. So we
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  Speaker 1: have to first acknowledge and then we have to entrusts
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  Speaker 1: a two part then, um, you know churches say all
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  Speaker 1: the time, you have to acknowledge and then move beyond it.
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  Speaker 1: We have to acknowledge the fact that we do have
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  Speaker 1: eating halfs as you mentioned, that are helpful. We often
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  Speaker 1: acknowledge that we have certain behaviors, whether it be substance abuse,
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  Speaker 1: alcohol to back of that are killing this. We have
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  Speaker 1: to acknowledge the fact that, you know, we've had challenges
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  Speaker 1: in getting you know, the healthcare that we need over
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  Speaker 1: the years because the system and racism and the burden
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  Speaker 1: is not play so lead on African Americans. As a
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  Speaker 1: medical profession, we have to acknowledge the years of systemic
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  Speaker 1: racism that has helped um kind of continue some of
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  Speaker 1: those cycles of the spirity, right, and so we all
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  Speaker 1: have our work to do, but we also have to
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  Speaker 1: take the ownership and move forward with our own progress. Well,
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  Speaker 1: you know, they thank you for the response, and I
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  Speaker 1: guess it upsets me because of the fact that we
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  Speaker 1: are such a proud race and when I and when
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  Speaker 1: I see us leading in negative stats, when I see
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  Speaker 1: us leading in age debts, and then you know, it
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  Speaker 1: just only makes us overall as a race look look
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  Speaker 1: look inefficient, look defective. In other way, when we used
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  Speaker 1: when you know, I don't want COVID, when they started
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  Speaker 1: listening COVID debts and early on it was like three
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  Speaker 1: out of ten people who are dying with black or
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  Speaker 1: some states some cities was six out of ten. That
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  Speaker 1: that was that's not the statue you want to lead in.
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  Speaker 1: But they all go back to our eating habits and
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  Speaker 1: how we live our lives daily. Are also the communities
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  Speaker 1: that were also live in correct. Well, it's it's a
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  Speaker 1: combination of things. It's it's certainly you know your your
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  Speaker 1: bodies ability to handle an infection like COVID, and you
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  Speaker 1: have to be health right, I mean, so you already OBEs,
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  Speaker 1: if you have comobilities as certainly gonna make it harder
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  Speaker 1: for you to fight something like COVID. But as we
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  Speaker 1: see with its now in COVID, and see with cancer
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  Speaker 1: it's prostincts, it's colorectal cancer, heart disease, we see a
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  Speaker 1: pattern that exists where there is disparity and outcomes where
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  Speaker 1: blacks are more likely to die from many of these
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  Speaker 1: illnesses compared to their white counterparts. Not all of that
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  Speaker 1: is genetics and all of that is eating well, some
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  Speaker 1: of it's just disparity that's caused from sort of social
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  Speaker 1: determinants of how well we have access to care, not
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  Speaker 1: only care, but aw often we have access to good
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  Speaker 1: medical care. So it's a combination of a lot of
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  Speaker 1: these other factors. That's not exactly that we're just eating poorly.
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  Speaker 1: It's not exactly that made bad choices. It's the collective
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  Speaker 1: all of those things that creates the narrative that you
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  Speaker 1: displays the dispirity and health and outcomes. Now, you know
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  Speaker 1: the thing about media, Media doesn't help you know when
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  Speaker 1: because now if you think about it, like for instance,
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  Speaker 1: recently President Biden, he had COVID and I think his
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  Speaker 1: wife has COVID as well because he had double positive
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  Speaker 1: tests and now he's out. But now if you if
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  Speaker 1: you listen to the media, nobody's dying from COVID, And
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  Speaker 1: we know that's not true. But when it was, when
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  Speaker 1: it was media savvy to lead with that story, it
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  Speaker 1: was all over the news. How do you think the
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  Speaker 1: role of how the COVID situation, especially when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to death, should be communicated and there should just stay
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  Speaker 1: at the top of the store origin ay or or
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't matter because it's all about TV ratings. Well, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's a that's a very difficult question to answer because
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  Speaker 1: there are several ways of that, right. I mean, there's
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  Speaker 1: the present news of what's happened that day that takes
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  Speaker 1: presidents often over what's happened two, three or four months ago.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's it's a similar effective when you're celebrating breast
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  Speaker 1: cancer Awareness Month. It doesn't mean that people aren't dying
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  Speaker 1: from color word cancer means that we're in a light
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  Speaker 1: to it at this point. But there's this undercurrent of
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  Speaker 1: of a story that's always president um and I think
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  Speaker 1: that's where we in the community have to do our part. Listen,
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  Speaker 1: it's like when you go to church, you know, say that.
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  Speaker 1: It's like or if you go to school or wherever
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  Speaker 1: the lessons are being taught, that's not where the real
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  Speaker 1: work is done. The real work is done on a
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  Speaker 1: daily basis. It's a minute I minute. It's what we
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  Speaker 1: do in our communities, it's what we do in our homes,
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  Speaker 1: it's what we do in our cases of work. And
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  Speaker 1: so we can certainly take the lead from what we
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  Speaker 1: see in media as sort of the highlight of what's happening,
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  Speaker 1: But there's world work that's happened every day across this country.
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  Speaker 1: Every hospital, every doctor's office, every home, or what we
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  Speaker 1: know is happening needs to be dealt with addressed terms,
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  Speaker 1: The doctor says with McFadden, popular TV medical contributor, Black
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  Speaker 1: health advocate and Assistant Professor of surgery. Um So I
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  Speaker 1: can assume based on that response, not saying this directly
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  Speaker 1: from you or how America's hamlet, that we know people
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  Speaker 1: die from the flu. You know it's not being reported.
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  Speaker 1: So the same thing is happening basically with COVID. People
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  Speaker 1: are out there dying of COVID. It's just not being reported.
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  Speaker 1: But they I'm a person who's double vacs. I'm a
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  Speaker 1: person who wears his mask, especially on the plane. Sir,
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  Speaker 1: I will have my mask on, but I go through
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  Speaker 1: the airport, I'll be I'll be flying to bar. It'll
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  Speaker 1: be people walking around like WHOA. Okay, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: none of y'all people. I don't know what you come from. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: y'all just breathe that I've got my mask on. What
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  Speaker 1: are your thoughts when you see that? Am I being
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  Speaker 1: overly health conscious? Or am I doing the right thing
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  Speaker 1: based on how I should treat my mental health and
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  Speaker 1: my body? Well? We you know we all have been there, right,
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  Speaker 1: You're you're in the store, you're you're wearing a mask.
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  Speaker 1: Other folks aren't wearing a mask. Um. I do think
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  Speaker 1: it's their responsibility of us to take care of knowing ourselves,
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  Speaker 1: but the people that are around us, and so folks,
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  Speaker 1: folks that that means wearing a mask, That means wearing
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  Speaker 1: a mask, um, even if it's in the airport, even
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  Speaker 1: if it's in churches or schools. I do think that
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  Speaker 1: as we have seen more people like yourself getting blacks,
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  Speaker 1: getting your boosters and following up on symptoms and doing
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  Speaker 1: our responsibility, it doesn't make us feel like, Okay, we're
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  Speaker 1: in the safer spot. Uh. And in some ways there's
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  Speaker 1: some truth to that, but we still responsibility in places
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  Speaker 1: where we don't know the the health of the people
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  Speaker 1: that were around. You know, when these large public settings,
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  Speaker 1: it's a different group than if we're in sort of
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  Speaker 1: the confines for our home or employment where we know
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  Speaker 1: the people that were around. So I don't think that
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  Speaker 1: you're being unreasonable, and I don't you should completely out
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  Speaker 1: of place, because again you're doing what is right, especially
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  Speaker 1: making sure you take care of your own health and
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  Speaker 1: think here of the people that are around you as well. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's really interesting. You know, um, the medical
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  Speaker 1: community is will never be the same since COVID because
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  Speaker 1: you know you because now you know you zoom. My
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  Speaker 1: doctor said that we don't have to meet, we can
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  Speaker 1: meet the zoom. Okay, all right. You know before that
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  Speaker 1: there have been blasphemy that have been you don't do medicals,
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  Speaker 1: you don't do medical care like that. That's horrific. But
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  Speaker 1: now the rules have changed, doctor talk to me. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they have traded, even if our own practice. I mean
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  Speaker 1: I've always you know, we've we've we've talked in the
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  Speaker 1: past before COVID about the availability of doing tele medicine
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  Speaker 1: and as a as as a surgeon, I think there's
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  Speaker 1: no way that a surgeon can do a visit that way,
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  Speaker 1: and we know that's not the case now there's certain
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  Speaker 1: visits you can't do, but there are definitely some conversations
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  Speaker 1: that we can't have through this medium. And I think
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  Speaker 1: it's like using the tools that we have to our
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  Speaker 1: advantage and then coming back to see how can we
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  Speaker 1: continue to use these tools to maximize the patient care
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  Speaker 1: and to maximize and builability of people to come see
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  Speaker 1: us and to get the care they need. Even if
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  Speaker 1: they can't physically come see us. So I think it's
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  Speaker 1: still gonna be a part of what we do. To
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  Speaker 1: what degree that's gonna be left to see, But you know,
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  Speaker 1: I've also welcomed it, and I enjoy having this conversation
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  Speaker 1: over virtual care or over the virtual platform with my patients.
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  Speaker 1: We'll be right back with more Money Making Conversations Masterclass
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  Speaker 1: with Rushan McDonald. Now, let's return to Money Making Conversations
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  Speaker 1: Masterclass with Rashan McDonald. You know, and I know what,
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  Speaker 1: it's not going anywhere, but this is what my takeaway
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  Speaker 1: because you know, as you get older, you get more
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  Speaker 1: and more care and you care more about living longer
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  Speaker 1: as you get older. Young people who listening to this
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  Speaker 1: podcast or this radio show, you'll you'll find that earlier
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  Speaker 1: life you don't care. As you get older, you're trying
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  Speaker 1: to extend the years because because you you know, like
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  Speaker 1: I said, you know, when you when you're eighteen, you
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  Speaker 1: said the word fifty, Oh that's a long way away,
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  Speaker 1: but when you said they farted, get right around the
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  Speaker 1: corner and uh. And so the thing that just tell
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  Speaker 1: you to share a story with you, like when I
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  Speaker 1: when I was diagnosed with thyrod cancer. Um, I I
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  Speaker 1: every year I have I have a doctor at Emory,
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  Speaker 1: and not saying nothing negative about Emory, but he missed it.
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  Speaker 1: And and and and then when I go to my
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  Speaker 1: annual dental appointment, they they missed it. And the person
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  Speaker 1: who found it was a person who's doing my a test.
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  Speaker 1: They just asked me to to to um touch feel
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  Speaker 1: around my neck and he said, can we do a biopsy?
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  Speaker 1: And biopsy came back cancerous. And so what I would
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  Speaker 1: my takeaway from the reason those two other people missed
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  Speaker 1: it was that I was casual in my conversation. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you know when you meet people, you know them, they
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  Speaker 1: ask you questions, you go and you were a stranger.
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  Speaker 1: That's that's who she was. And I didn't know who
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  Speaker 1: she was. She started to ask me probably the same question.
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  Speaker 1: I just spoke differently. Wasn't laughing around, wasn't joking around
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  Speaker 1: by having a great day or thinking about leaving as
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  Speaker 1: soon as it then? And what I've learned in the
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  Speaker 1: zoom calls, and this is anybody who's talking to a
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  Speaker 1: medical professional, slow down, don't zoom. Don't do the zoom
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  Speaker 1: call because you want to get it out of the way,
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  Speaker 1: don't do the zoom call because you're in a hurry.
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  Speaker 1: Listen to what the doctor is saying, because that disconnects
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  Speaker 1: can be dangerous because you haven't made an effort to
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  Speaker 1: make that happen. It's just turned on the switch WI Fi.
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  Speaker 1: You there, am I right? If it's it's still a
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  Speaker 1: real medical it's still a time to hear about the
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  Speaker 1: problems you're having and also to hear about potential solutions
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  Speaker 1: to those problems. Um. I think a quick note to
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  Speaker 1: make sure that you do that is before you get
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  Speaker 1: on the call, write down the things that are you
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  Speaker 1: that are on your mind, right down some key questions,
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  Speaker 1: because you can sometimes forget the things that you want
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  Speaker 1: to say if you don't have them read, especially in
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  Speaker 1: front of a doctor or someone that you're gonna be
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  Speaker 1: kind of going through it really quickly, having a piece
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  Speaker 1: of paper and have those key concerns that you have.
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  Speaker 1: And so Kenny even shot down notes during that business. Well,
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  Speaker 1: now when you had when I had the title Dr
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  Speaker 1: McFadden Black Health Advocate, you know you've you've heard me.
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  Speaker 1: I I don't know if I have a health issue
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  Speaker 1: other than life. You live alone. Life, things are gonna happen.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I'm not a drinker of alcohol, don't smoke,
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  Speaker 1: so these are just things that just happened in my life,
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  Speaker 1: part of my metabolism. When you say black health advocate,
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: Dr My fat and what does that mean? Well for me,
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  Speaker 1: I immediately think about everyone in my family and specifically
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  Speaker 1: my my grandmother UM that had health problems that would
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  Speaker 1: go to the doctor UM and often she leaves the doctor.
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  Speaker 1: I don't really think understanding exactly what was related, and
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  Speaker 1: not having UM an immediate person or even her own
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  Speaker 1: ability to advocate questions second guest come back around UH
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  Speaker 1: to clarify UM information that's been presented. So when I
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: say black health advocate, I'm primarily referring to someone who's
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: gonna speak up, ask the questions, ask the questions again,
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: ask them in a different way, and not necessarily saying
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: we're trying with a certain answer, but we're providing clearing
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: what clearities because we need decisions to be made in space.
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  Speaker 1: That's that's UM. It's fully comprehended. You know, you don't
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: want to make a decision that's uneven, and so you
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: make that decision based on fully understanding, and that's what
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  Speaker 1: I like for people to do is to understand the
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  Speaker 1: health problems that they face so they can make better
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  Speaker 1: decisions about the cure that they need to receive. Cool.
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: Now you would to school down in Louisiana school Calvia,
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: I did, come on that. I did a great time.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: Come on that time. I would saying I'm born in Houston, Texas. Okay,
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: i tm wear my boys my best man in the
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: way I need from New Orleans with the high school
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: saying so I've been down New Orleans a lot. Tell
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: us about your college life, man, because I'm sure was
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: a lot of fun but also tied to great education
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: and black excellence. Talk to us. It did, and I'm
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: just honored to have that experience and stuff being out
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: of HBC like Saving University. You know, I initially planned
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: to attend a different university UM that was not an HBCU,
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: and towards the middle of my senior high school imports teachers.
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: I had a teacher that reached out said you should
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: check out the school about ZAP called Saving UM. I
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: had never been to New Orleans. I knew nothing about it,
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: but the presentation, at least from the news report was
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: about their history and helping black skin into medical school,
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: preparing them problems. Has been a leader for years, for
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: decades and preparing African American students into medical school. And
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: I knew then I wanted to become a doctor, and
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: so that's kind of what let me to even get
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: to Save here. And I fully took advantage of all
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: the things at Savior, from the premedi society, the student
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: government to dealing with different activities around campus. It was
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: really a great time to explore, um more about you know,
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: culture in New Orleans, UM. And I was grateful to
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: experiences being out of church in the Lower ninth Ward
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: and had a chance to interact very very closely with
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: members of the community and to learn about their experiences
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: and people give back to them. So it was it
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: was one of the most you know facts four years
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: of my life. And I wouldn't treat for anything in
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: the world. Wow, you know, I I look at it.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: I say black excellence. When I talked about hbc U
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: s I didn't attend an hpc U. I'm an advocate
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: of HBCUs, my company and my brand and my brand association.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: In fact, one of my nieces she's going down to
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: priving your in them I'm very proud of her. Uh,
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: this fall should be enrolling into an HBCU. But when
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: you look at the like you just said, people don't know.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: What you don't know can hurt you and the success
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: and the academic success, especially of HBCUs. If you had
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: somebody listening to this, who was listening to the show,
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: who don't know what tiny secret or what secret brand
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: awareness that you'd like to bring to the table that
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: people should know about HBCUs, especially the one you attended. Yeah,
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: it is a is a hotbed of just excellence you know,
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: from people around the country, around the world who recognized
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: that and come together in a space and going through
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: sort of premed track. It was. It was nothing uncommon
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: for us to all be studying together in the library
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: setting and you have, you know, people who've been through
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: the classes before who reached back out and kind of
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: help you get through with what you're getting through. Um,
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: there's just nothing like it. UM. I grew up in
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: the in the day watching a different world, and while
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: we didn't have a joint Wayne or Willy Gilbert, it
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: was very similar in that sort of communiality, that sort
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: of camaraderie. It was. It was phenomenal space. And um,
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: I didn't pledge in in in college, Um because I
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: felt like I had so many other brothers around right
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: and didn't even feel like there was anything lacking to
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: one because it was just a commonplace. But Dr Cedric Pratt, Uh,
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: I want you to come back. You know, I think
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: that what I try to do on my show is
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: provide information. Um, you didn't dodge anybody questions. Not that
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: the questions you should dodge, but some people clear understanding
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: that more and more in our community need to have
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: advocates like you need to have a place where they
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: can go and get the information there's there's spoon fair
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: to them, not just shoved down their throat, and not
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: when it's too late, but early in the game, because
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: pre care is really the precursor to good care. And
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: I want to thank you for coming on Money Making
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: Conversation master Class and don't make this your last visit.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: Dr Cedric McCain, happy to be here, Thank you for
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: having me. We talked to Mr HBCU Grant Xavier Universe.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: We talked about Gumbo later on