Second Opinion: Healthism, Long COVID, and Blame in Medicine

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SPEAKER 2

Hi, everybody. It's Zeest Khan and Alyssa Burgart here on our co-hosted live. We're calling it Second Opinion, and we're just two doctors shooting the breeze about all of the problems in the healthcare system that we experience both as healthcare workers and patients. Welcome to everybody.

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Alyssa, do you want to introduce yourself to people who might not know you? Yeah, absolutely.

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SPEAKER 3

Thank you. Thank you for having me. I'm like, so I've been looking forward to this all week. So I'm Alyssa Burgart. I'm a pediatric anesthesiologist and bioethicist. I spend most of my time at Stanford University. I also write a couple of different newsletters. My main newsletter is called Poppies and Propofol.

Second Opinion: Healthism, Long COVID, and Blame in Medicine

A recording from Alyssa Burgart, MD, MA and Dr. Zeest Khan's live video

Alyssa Burgart, MD, MA

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Dr. Zeest Khan

Jul 02, 2025

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Fellow anesthesiologist,

Dr. Zeest Khan

, and I got together in late April to talk about long COVID, healthism, and blame in medicine.

Zeest writes extensively about the impact of Long COVID and what it’s like to become someone with a chronic disease as a physician. I highly recommend you check her work out, if you’re not already familiar. She’s awesome!