Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

The Root Cause Approach to Depression

27 Jan 2025 · 1 min

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A psychiatrist (Aaron Hartman, MD) recounts witnessing severe illness and heavy medication use in a patient, which motivated him to learn functional medicine and become an integrative psychiatrist. He describes asking to be hired into an integrative role, completing functional medicine training, and now practicing solely in that model.

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As a psychiatrist, once you see that, especially to the degree of how sick he really got, how much medication he had to take, and then coming off of it through this process, I couldn't unsee that. And I. I wanted to know more. And I was literally hired. I said, can you hire me? Because they, you know, it's funny how things come together. You know, they. They were looking for an integrative psychiatrist. And I said, can you hire me? And I learned how to be a functional medicine doctor. At that point. I did all the training, and that's all I do now.