Ross Douthat
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328 appearances
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first heard Mar 2022
last heard Mar 2022
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People always ask, Well, what do you think of the medical establishment when all when all is said and done?
And I obviously carry now a ton of skepticism and a ton of baggage about official medicine that I didn't carry before.
But at the same time, the reality is that the core thing that got me better was antibiotics, the central weapon in the modern medical arsenal.
The people who got me better were people who were really on the fringe, but most of them were prominent medical school trained doctors who
And just in recounting the strangeness of the story, I can see why there is so much skepticism about this kind of illness in the medical community.
So all of which is to say the book is written
as a critique and as a plea for help, but it's also written with serious respect for everything that m modern medicine gets right and all the ways in which, even though I had to go somewhat outside the mainstream to get it, it was forms of modern medicine that did help me.
Thank you so much for having me, it was a pleasure.
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