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Dead Doctor, Primary Care Woes, and Blood Pressure Stories
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Lemaire Lee's story about his doctor dying at sea becomes the episode's most unexpected moment of genuine pathos [1] — Lemaire Lee "Lemaire Lee's former primary care physician fell off his fishing boat, which then circled back and ran him over, killing him at sea. His ne…" 36:22 . The doctor fell overboard, his unmanned boat circled back and ran him over — a death straight out of Greek tragedy. His new doctor, assigned through insurance and apparently affiliated with a church, only checked blood pressure, something Lemaire could have done at CVS. The group riffs on pharmaceutical companies shrinking the blood pressure threshold by 20 points to extend medication to more patients. Shane's contribution is a great Super Bowl story: the morning after a 'pretty wild night,' he sat in a gift lounge getting a free IV, only to have the nurse check his blood pressure first and find numbers that raised alarms. Five minutes of forced relaxation later, it was back to normal — proving that stress is real and temporary.
Lemaire Lee's former primary care physician fell off his fishing boat, which then circled back and ran him over, killing him at sea. His new doctor is terrible by comparison, prompting Lee to eulogize a man he genuinely misses.
