Doctor Mike

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Welcome back to the Checkup Podcast.

Today's guest is Rainn Wilson, the actor, author, and producer who turned Dwight Schrute from the office into a cultural icon.

Super excited to have him on to discuss his new movie, Code 3, where he takes on the harsh reality of being a frontline healthcare worker.

In our convo, we get real about frontline healthcare work.

We explore spirituality, our mental health, and yes, he even lets me sort of perform a medical procedure on him.

Please welcome Rainn Wilson to the Checkup Podcast.

I watched Code 3.

I am very excited to talk to you about it and your passion for why you chose to do that project.

Because for us on this channel and on the podcast, we're constantly railing against the fact that there is a inherent misunderstanding between the general public

and the healthcare community.

There's a lot of anger towards health insurance companies, hospitals, physicians, healthcare administrators, understandably, because the system really sucks.

But at the same time, there's this tremendous burnout, sadness, anger from the healthcare worker side that hasn't adequately been documented until some shows that have been doing it well recently, The Pit as an example, now September 12th, Code 3.

Why did you choose to undertake a project about being an EMS provider?

Staying alive.

Staying alive.

That's all you need to know.

It's good.

Yeah, that means you're doing it right, as you guys said.

Were you aware of the plight of first responders prior to reading that script?