#47: Is Health a Moral Obligation? With Ethicist Alyssa Burgart, MD

Send us a text Buy Me a Coffee Is being healthy a personal virtue, or a civic duty? And how should you be treated if you're not healthy? In this episode of Long Covid, MD, Dr. Zeest Khan is joined by Dr. Alyssa Burgart, pediatric anesthesiologist and bioethicist, for a timely conversation on healthism—the idea that health is a moral responsibility—and how it's shaping everything from doctor-patient relationships to public health policy. Together, they explore: What healthism is and why it mat...