Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

Dr Song | The Key Quality Every Doctor Should Have

7 Jan 2025 · 1 min

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Short excerpt from a YouTube video (posted by Aaron Hartman, MD) in which Dr. Song argues that the most important quality for any physician—whether conventional or integrative—is retaining an open mind and a scientific inquisitiveness. He emphasizes researching treatments for patient benefit, and warns against dogmatism on either side (some integrative practitioners can be as narrow-minded as conventional clinicians).

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The most important quality for any physician, whether you're conventional or integrative, is just retaining that, that open mind, that kind of scientific inquiry, like, oh, that's so interesting, I would love to learn more. And then you do the research, you know, you look and see, is this something that, that's worthwhile, you know, for your patient or not? But it's you, because, you know, honestly, I mean, I've had also interactions with integrative practitioners or holistic practitioners who are very, you know, narrow minded to anything conventional. So it can't, it's got to be both. I mean, there's, there's never anything that's clearly, you know, a black or white answer.