Episode Summary

It used to be that medical doctors had the time to educate and inform patients of treatment options & side effects. These days, however, most doctors are limited to just a few short minutes and that all important information is getting skipped and never delivered. As a result, practitioners like Evie & Torea are left to pick up the pieces. Listen in to learn what this looks like and how to ask questions differently so that you get all the information you need to make your own health choices!

In This Episode:

Quick to prescribe mentality (02:05 )

Being your own best advocate (03:06 )

Dealing with conflicting information (04:10 )

Conventional vs Functional approaches (05:10 )

The problems with allopathic approaches (07:40 )

Lack of education to patients (10:19 )

LImitations of the medical system (12:23 )

You know your body best (14:47 )

Lack of informed consent is epidemic (15:47 )

Asking different questions to get more informed consent (19:23 )

Rare side effects are often left out of consent conversations (21:00 )

Dealing with counterintuitive suggestions (25:46 )

Practitioner requests are suggestions, not commands (27:51 )

The power of Why (28:38 )

For full show notes and resources: https://www.torearodriguez.com/wowpodcast/e027