Owen Scott Muir, M.D. Joins Dr. Drew Pinsky on This Podcast!

With a few reflections.

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Drew Pinsky is a complex character. I don't know him well before this. He's an addiction medicine doctor. He also went to Amherst College—also my undergrad college—and we discussed that in the episode.

I started listening to Drew in his show with Adam Carolla in the 90s. It was called Loveline. Even as a teen, it was obvious to me that “entertaining content about sex” was a public health show. In that, young people would listen. He began practice with AIDS—back when it was called GRIDS, short for Gay Related Immune Deficiency Syndrome. Those early experiences of a physician can shape some of us with an evangelical zeal. Drew saw a lack of understanding about a serious, life-threatening condition. To him, that meant thinking about how to educate people. And that, in turn, meant entertai…