Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

Trust Your Gut, Not the Doctor

14 Jul 2025 · 1 min

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A short YouTube conversation between an unnamed speaker and Aaron Hartman, MD, focused on the importance of patient self-advocacy in healthcare. The unnamed speaker recounts carrying a plaque reading “trust your gut, not the doctor” and describes repeatedly advocating for family members; Dr. Hartman responds with a wry comment about clinicians preventing harm from other providers in the hospital.

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I had a I have a little plaque that I had in my purse all the time that just said trust your gut, not the doctor. So and it was there were so many times that I I had to you have to advocate for yourself and you have to advocate for your family. And there were plenty of times when I'm sure they thought I was a crazy woman, but I knew that it wasn't the right thing for him or this wasn't what we wanted to do. They're much older now, but I still do it.
Well, it's kind of funny because your previous doctor, who was a mentor of mine for a while before he retired, he used to I mean, one of the things he used to say was, you know, when you're taking care of a patient in the hospital, one of your goals is to keep the hospital and the specialist from killing your patients.