Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

The True Measure of a Great Practitioner | When a Mother's Love Changed EVERYTHING

29 Apr 2025 · 1 min

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A short YouTube video conversation (uploaded April 29, 2025) featuring Aaron Hartman, MD and another speaker reflecting on what makes a great practitioner. The clip emphasizes the importance of working effectively with patients (practitioner–patient relationship) and includes a clinical anecdote about a patient with markedly elevated blood pressure (160/95) whose intake revealed heavy daily consumption of caffeinated beverages (two Monster energy drinks and three Coke Zeros), suggesting lifestyle factors influenced his hypertension.

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It doesn't matter how amazing a diagnostician you are if you can't actually work with the person. And I think that's something that is super, super important for any practitioner anywhere to do.
Yeah, I was just thinking, I had a new patient in the last week at that practice. He had a blood pressure of, like, 160 over 95. And I was like, oh, my gosh. So, of course, you know, like, you see the vitals before you walk into the room, and you're like, well, I wonder where this is going to go. And he was on a medicine for this. And I thought, well, I wonder what we're going to do here. And then I looked back at his intake forms, and he was drinking, like, two monster caffeinated drinks every day and three Coke Zeros.