Thank you so much for joining us. Im here today talking with kathleen mcglothlin, whos written an incredibly important and deeply reported book on the blood industry, which is kind of this almost dystopian seeming world. But its a huge economy and industry here in the United States. And kathleen, i wondered if you could start by telling us a bit about your own personal connection to this industry . Of course. So its really nice to be here with you. My interest in the blood plasma industry began about 20 years ago when i was diagnosed with a rare autoimmune disease, and the treatment for that illness is a medication that is made from pieces of human blood plasma. So its called intravenous human immuno globin or ivig for short. I think most people whove never had to take it have never heard of it. Maybe its not a common drug, but it is made from other peoples blood plasma and so for about 20 years, often on, i have been having regular infusions of this medication. And it takes a long tim
Hi. Thank you so much for joining us. Im here today talking with kathleen mcglothlin, whos written an incredibly important and deeply reported book on the blood industry, which is kind of th almost dystopian seeming world. But its a huge economy and industry here in the United States. And kathleen, i wondered if you could start by telling us a bit about your own personal connection to this industry . Of course. So its really nice to be here with you. My interest in the blood plasma industry began about 20 years ago when i was diagnosed with a rare autoimmune disease, and the treatment for that illness is a medication that is made from pieces of human blood plasma. So its called intravenous human immuno globin or ivig for short. I think most people whove never had to take it have never heard of it. Maybe its not a common drug, but it is made from other peoples blood plasma and so for about 20 years, often on, i have been having regular infusions of this medication. And it takes a long t
Hi. Thank you so much thank you for joining us. Im here today talking with kathleen mclaughlin, who has written an incredibly important book on the blood indust, which is this dystopian thing. It is this huge economy and industry here in the United States. Kathleen, i wondered if you could start by telling us a bit about your own personal connection with this. Of course, its nice to be here with you. My interest in the blood industry began 20 years ago, when i was diagnosed with a rare auto immune disease. The illness is made from pieces of human blood plasma, its called iv iv. Many people whove never had to take it have never heard of, it maybe it is not a common drug. But it is made from other peoples blood plasma. So for about 20 years, often on, i have had regular infusions of this medication. And it takes a long time to have these infusions, five or six hours each time. A lot of times you sit in the chair and wonder where it is coming from, and who are these people that are provid
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