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Podcast: StartUp Health NOW Podcast
Episode: (Re)Meet Pelago: Well-Funded Quit Genius Rebrands to Make Addiction Treatment More Accessible
Description: When we first met today’s StartUp Heatlh NOW podcast guest, he was a newly-minted doctorpreneur. After finishing med school Yusuf Sherwani, MD, teamed up with a couple fellow doctors to tackle a massive, pervasive problem they were facing in their clinics: Day after day they were seeing patients struggling with addiction, whether smoking or drinking or opioids. These were people stigmatized by their addictions into fear and inaction or they’d reached out for help and found the options unsuccessful.
This group of physicians thought, with today’s technology and breakthroughs in addiction management, there has to be...