🔥 What if some of the biggest health challenges people face today are not caused by bad medicine... but by blind spots in the system itself? Read UnCurable to explore a deeper perspective on overlooked diagnoses, chronic symptoms, and the importance of asking better questions when answers are hard to find.
What if some of medicine’s most trusted beliefs have unintentionally harmed the very people they were meant to help?
In this episode of Made for Health, Dr. Aaron Hartman and Dr. Christian Jenski begin a new series exploring medical blind spots, outdated assumptions, and the unintended consequences that can occur when healthcare systems become overly attached to prevailing beliefs.
Using historical examples and modern patient experiences, they discuss how medicine has repeatedly evolved by challenging accepted ideas. From handwashing and infection control to hormone replacement therapy and chronic illness, they examine how some widely accepted medical assumptions have later been proven incomplete or incorrect.
The conversation also highlights how women have often been disproportionately affected by these blind spots, particularly in areas such as autoimmune disease, chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, hormonal health, fertility, and complex chronic illnesses. Throughout the episode, Dr. Hartman and Dr. Jenski emphasize the importance of curiosity, humility, patient advocacy, and continuously questioning assumptions in the pursuit of better healthcare.
About the Guest
Dr. Christian Jenski is a triple board-certified physician with expertise in emergency medicine, obesity medicine, and functional medicine. He works alongside Dr. Aaron Hartman to help patients uncover root causes of chronic illness through a systems-based and personalized approach to healthcare.
Key Topics Covered
- What medical blind spots are and how they develop
- Why science evolves and accepted medical beliefs sometimes change
- The difference between scientific discovery and medical dogma
- Historical examples of medical blind spots and unintended harm
- The story of handwashing and infection prevention in medicine
- How healthcare systems can unintentionally overlook important patient experiences
- Why women are disproportionately affected by medical gaslighting
- The relationship between chronic illness and missed diagnoses
- The history and controversy surrounding hormone replacement therapy
- How delayed acceptance of new evidence can affect patient care
- The importance of intellectual curiosity in medicine
- Why listening to patients remains one of the most important clinical skills
- The role of functional medicine in addressing complex chronic illnesses
- How chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, autoimmune disease, and hormone disorders are often misunderstood
- Why advocacy and self-education can help patients navigate healthcare challenges
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