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Jean Liew

Researcher

Aug 27, 2026

EileenHOST
6:17
But what's your evidence behind that? So
6:21
the reason a lot of the myths that we're going to talk about today have to do with how medical training happens.
6:27
They say when you're in medical school, you're drinking from a fire hose of information and you're supposed to learn all these intricate details about all these diseases, how to diagnose them, how to treat them.
6:39
And you're never going to actually carry out all of that yourself because when people are generalists, like general practitioners or primary care doctors, they're not going to be treating people with cancer, with chemotherapy, for example.
6:53
They're not going to be diagnosing people with different rheumatic conditions, most likely, but they're supposed to recognize that person might have that condition and refer appropriately to a rheumatologist.
7:05
So medicine has just gotten so specialized and there's so much information that we now know.
7:11
But the only way for a medical school in four years to cover all of the information and get people to at least try to recognize when someone needs to see a rheumatologist for possible symptoms.

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17:01
Is that a myth or is that a fact and why?

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