# Amy Blackstone

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Dear John(ny)

It's all about Johnny! You know, those terrible, awful, itchy, ugly gowns they make you wear at the hospital. Dr. Amy's breaking up with them, Lance gives us a history lesson, Dr. Amy talks power and fashion, and we all agree that Johnny needs to go. DEAR JOHN(NY) Dear John(ny), You came into my li…

World Spins Madly On

Dr. Amy reads "World Spins Madly On" from her Substack then she and Lance discuss life with Long COVID, loneliness, and waking up after having missed the zombie apocalypse. WORLD SPINS MADLY ON It's over. That life from the Before Times. I could hardly tell you what it felt like then though everyon…

Parasocial Relationships

Amy confesses to having imaginary relationships with a whole bunch of people and we consider whether she is totally nuts or simply engaged in a bunch of parasocial relationships (or possibly both?). We go on to discuss the benefits of parasocial relationships for people with chronic illnesses, pote…

Boston Karen

Did you know it’s possible to exit a two-night hospital stay mostly unscathed? Neither did we! Not until Boston Karen came along, that is. Amy reflects on a rare positive health care experience and we wonder at the difference a single provider can make. We dig into the concept of structural medical…

Continuing Medical Education on Long COVID & Other IACCs

We’re doing something a little different on today’s episode. Amy is is joined by Kristi Woods, BSN, RN-BC, a friend and fellow Maine resident, who will read her testimony in support of a bill we worked on together in 2025. The bill was focused on improving education on Infection-Associated Chronic …

Walking the Plank

Raise your hand if you know what it's like to feel nauseous all the freaking time! Or if you've ever traded that in for rock hard poops and the inability to take a sh!t for days on end (thanks, Zofran side effects!). In this episode, we ponder the joys - and challenges - of the nausea and vertigo t…

The Myth of the Maternal Instinct | Dr. Jay Zigmont, CFP® & Dr. Amy Blackstone

There's a particular kind of quiet worry that comes with being Childfree, the suspicion that everyone else received some piece of wiring you're missing. Dr. Amy Blackstone spent her mid-30s certain she was broken as a woman, and she went looking for the research to explain what had gone wrong with …

RIP Me

Dark. Angry. Hopeful. That’s how Lance described the piece Amy starts us off with today. Based on what we’ve learned from others who have ever had to say goodbye to an old life or mourn a dream that will never come true, we think y’all might relate. It is in part this very discovery - that so many …

Shayna: Former Modern Orthodox

Shayna Sragovicz grew up in a family that became Orthodox when they were seven, moving from a largely secular Jewish childhood into Chabad schooling and eventually Modern Orthodoxy. In this episode, Shayna traces the contradictions they began noticing in seminary and college, how COVID disrupted th…