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The Problem With Traditional Medicine #shorts


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As much as I love mainstream medicine and I trained in it and I'm so grateful for my education, I still think it is a silo-based way of taking care of patients. So even if there's an understanding of the network effect more at the science level or as you described in neuroscience, there's still, you know, if you are a woman who has constipation, fatigue, maybe an autoimmune condition, feel stressed out all the time, feel like your hormones are out of whack, you get sent to the gastroenterologist for the constipation, you get sent to the rheumatologist for your autoimmune issues, you maybe get sent to an endocrinologist if you've got thyroid problems, and there's very little collaboration between these groups.

So even though there's an understanding of the network effect in real life, it's not happening.