{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Root Cause - Business of Medicine Podcast","title":"Episode 24: Six Hours With One Patient — Dr. Datis Kharrazian on Fear as a Motivator, the Case-Review Filter, and Why Clinical Skill Is the Whole Business","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3778,"description":"Erik and Davin have had physicians, recruiters and founders on this show. This week they have the first chiropractor — who also holds a PhD, a Harvard postdoc, and a master's from Harvard Medical School.\nDr. Datis Kharrazian is a clinical research scientist, Associate Clinical Professor of Preventive Medicine at Loma Linda University School of Medicine, and the founder of the Kharrazian Institute. His books Why Do I Still Have Thyroid Symptoms? and Why Isn't My Brain Working? reframed how a generation of clinicians approaches thyroid and brain care.\nAsk him what drove all of it and he doesn't say curiosity. His family left Iran in 1979. His mother was severely ill for most of his childhood — psychiatric admissions, electroconvulsive therapy, drug after drug, no response — until a chiropractor working with nutrition made a difference nobody else had. Decades later he would learn she had neurological autoimmunity: antibodies to her own serotonin and dopamine. \"I don't think I was just curious,\" he says. \"I think I was just a scared kid that never stopped being scared, and was just trying to figure out how to help someone who wasn't getting help.\"\nThe business conversation is unusually concrete. He ran a small practice three days a week, scheduled six hours for a new patient, and priced a filter at the front door.\nIn this episode\nLeaving Iran in 1979, and a childhood spent watching the healthcare system fail his mother\nFinding Jeffrey Bland's literature reviews as a student — checking out five years of them and flow-charting every one to learn how he was thinking\nTaking over Harry Eidenier's blood chemistry seminar series in his mid-twenties: \"You're a kid, what are you doing here?\"\nBrain dissection at Bastyr — twelve brains, three weeks, pulling pathways apart \"like string cheese\"\nThe PhD in Aristo Vojdani's lab: how chemicals can change the configuration of albumin, create a new antigen, and cross-link to neurological autoantibodies\nHarvard as a research fellow,...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/RDUSeE44PXw6C0vroYb_a-tROTMjDYFL7tE1bj-xPjc/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9kZDU2/ZDYwYTUyOTJkZDE3/ZTYwZjk4NzgzNzBj/OWQ4Ni5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}