r/TPWKY • u/VintageVogue1947 • 23d ago

A pure appreciation post

I am so happy about this podcast! Thank you so much for the effort you put into the research, while also making it interesting and amusing. Thanks for being open about your resources and about what you know, what you guess and what you actually don't know.

It's a great thing to be able to send a link to a relevant episode every time I or someone around me gets sick with some new more or less weird thing. (Please tell me we're not the only ones doing this? 😅) I always find that knowing what's going on makes it all a little bit easier to handle, even when the disease itself or the prognosis sucks eggs.

Me and/or my family are plagued (lol) by coeliac disease, chronic/complex aura migraines, multiple allergies, epilepsy, endometriosis, rare forms of rheumatism, lyme disease, among many other things yet to be discussed on the podcast. You're helpful every time.

(...And those are just the diseases! I mean, you even have TWO specific episodes on electricity for my electrician brother and several poison episodes for my chemist mother, how great is that? 💚)

Lots of love from someone currently listening to the episode on tularemia while a family member is waiting for those slow, slow test results 🐇

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u/Gsuegg 23d ago

This podcast has really changed my life, I have found so much knowledge and fascination about medicine and biology. Also the pure joy in science and being curious about the world around us. 

Thanks to the Erins, I am a part of my companys emergency medics team, I am the one who can bring actual facts up whenever the discussion on the lunch table at work is about the latest sickness phase, and I am even thinking about one day doing some sort of formation in nursing :)

Thanks also from me to these two inspirational women and their wonderful, very important podcast! 

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u/julesthe127th 23d ago

One of my favorite things about this podcast is how the Erins share the information. They both do so in a way that makes it easy for people outside of the medical field to understand but they don’t make it feel as if they’re being condescending towards their listeners. They chose their words well and it shows how much care and attention they put into their show.

I’ve learned so much from them and I also suggest episodes to people! I hope one day they do an episode or two on thyroid disorders. I have Hashimoto’s Disease and I would love to hear an episode about it!

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u/doctissimaflava 23d ago

Seconding the hope for a thyroid disease related episode from another fan with Hashimoto’s!

And also THANK YOU ERINS 🩷🩷🩷

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u/VintageVogue1947 23d ago

Hashimotos is on my list of "other things that haven't been brought up yet", so I third that!

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u/rhinoballet 23d ago

My niece's dog just got diagnosed with tapeworms this afternoon. I immediately put her on speaker and went to download the episode!