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90. What We Didn't Learn in Med School, Defining "Root Cause" & Influencing Patients | Nikhil Verma, MD

Medicine Redefined

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Treating the Root Cause of Spinal Stenosis

Darcy Drexler: I would challenge any of these people that say I'm treating the root cause. The way I see root cause is as kind of it's kind of what is your approach, right? Is like the treatment root cause, which we do learn in medical school. But then I think people confuse root cause with preventative medicine,. If we're talking about nutrition and exercise, how do we set up things so that we can prevent those diseases? Let's start at a root, right? Now more than ever, let's not go backwards, but let's think forwards.

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