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What Happens When Doctors Believe Patients? | Sabrina Patel MD | TEDxStGeorge
TEDx Talksยท 2025-09-18 16:55
[Music] [Applause] When my patients say they don't feel well, I believe them. But I didn't always see it that way. I was trained as a medical doctor to follow the evidence to diagnose based on what could be measured, quantified, and explained. And for a long time, I believed that if the labs were normal, the patient was fine. Until one day, I wasn't fine. And nothing could explain it. Just three months after giving birth to my first child, I sat in a doctor's office. I was exhausted, foggy, aching. I was af ...