Dr. Steven Novella

And then I can put that through a basic filter, but I don't have to be the person checking every reference and doing all, because somebody else, you know, we basically will team it, you know, we'll divide and conquer as it were.

You have to do that.

Nobody could possibly recheck every single sign, even as a physician.

We're trusting other experts to tell us what the bottom line is.

We can't read every single one of the hundreds of thousands of studies that come out of you.

Well, there's always like a trust but verify approach.

It's like, yes, we do.

Again, you can't go and do the research yourself on everything.

You have to trust that somebody who published research and it went through an editorial process and peer review.

You can't replicate all of that for every single study.

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.