Dr. Steven Novella

So there's a couple of ways we deal with it.

One is, and this is both a strength and a weakness of modern medicine, that you are kind of forced to specialize in

And because, you know, you could really only keep up with the literature, like really, really in a very narrow area.

And then you sort of moderately keep up with it in a broader area.

And then you have sort of a working knowledge of a broader area.

And you sort of design your practice based upon that.

I know we need general practitioners as well and family doctors, all that.

And that's really hard, in my opinion, because you have to sort of be broad.

competent at everything.

You're not going to be a master at anything.

You're not going to be a world expert in everything, but you could certainly be competent at everything.

That's a lot of freaking work.

You have to rely on the people who are hyper-specializing, who are specialists in this super narrow area.

I guess I've read every single one of the 200 studies on this topic.

You can't do that for the thousands of topics that there are.

So it's a pyramid, and that's by design, and it has to function that way.

Yeah, it's funny because I'm at the other end of the expert spectrum.

You're a general practitioner.

I was a sub-sub-specialist, right?

Neurologist and then headache specialist.