Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

The Alarming Truth About Medical Errors

16 Jul 2025 · 1 min

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A YouTube interview featuring Aaron Hartman, MD discussing the prevalence and consequences of medical errors, followed by a conversation about the interviewee's personal health journey, including a move toward functional medicine and specific issues with gut health and postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS). The dialogue contrasts conventional life-saving care with ongoing chronic problems related to gut function and autonomic symptoms.

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Medical error is the third most common cause of death in our country, then you need to kind of question things and feel good about stuff and know whatever's happening is the right thing. So let's fast forward a little bit. So we met, well, years and years ago, before I started doing functional medicine. Why don't you talk about that journey? Because so far, we talked about your interaction with the healthcare system and how conventional medicine saved your life. But also, you got to a point in time, we had health issues. So what's going on with your health? Before we first met, as far as stuff, I.
Had a terrible gut. And I honestly think, me personally, if my stomach's okay, then my POTS is much better. And so it wasn't equaling each other at the moment. And so I was having problems with that.