#149: Doctor Doctor (Dr. Steve Graham, @JeremyHornElite

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Ari Shaffir

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🗓️ 13 January 2014

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Dr. Steve Grraham and Jeremy Horn met me in my hotel room at the MGM to talk about what being a doctor really entails. Dr Steve, as everybody calls him, was awesome. He was completely open about the realities of his job. It's a lot different than I thought. From the hours, to the pay, to the patients, he talked about it all. And Obamacare.

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0:00.0	Personally, you know, as the day goes on, I degrade rapidly, you know, up until around one o'clock, I am on it.
0:07.6	I am four or five comes, and if I'm working, if I were to be working, 13 or 14 hours shifts, those last couple hours, I'm just doing my best to hang on.
0:17.5	You know, all you can think of is, this has got to end soon, you know.
0:21.5	I'm not looking forward to seeing that room full of patients out in the waiting room. I just can't wait to see them.
0:27.5	I got to stop going late in the afternoon.
0:29.0	It's unrealistic. Is that when you do it?
0:31.0	The more embarrassing your condition that earlier in the day, you should go.
0:57.0	Hey, everybody. Welcome to RGP skeptic tank. Quick, quick intro this time, two minutes.
1:07.0	I'm going to have Dr. Steve Graham on this podcast to talk about what it's like to actually be a doctor, the ins and outs of it.
1:15.0	What it's like to be a physician, practicing. It's not as cool as you think it'd be.
1:21.0	Dr. Steve, he's an old friend of Joe Rogans, but when my knee was really acting up and I couldn't figure out what was going on, he told me the real deal with what hospitals do.
1:33.0	I had MRIs done on my knee that just reported, now everything's fine in there.
1:37.0	And so I was like, well, I don't know what it is, but every time I get, sit down or stand up.
1:42.0	Anytime I've been my knee and put pressure on, I just buckles.
1:46.0	So he told me, MRIs give you a false negative 20% of the time.
1:52.0	I don't think it'll give a false positive. So if something's wrong in there and it says something's wrong, something's wrong.
1:57.0	But when it says everything's fine, four out of five times, that's right.
2:01.0	And one out of five times, it's just not right.
2:03.0	So he just told me that going in scope, you know something's wrong.
2:07.0	And I did and they found stuff once they were in there.
2:10.0	And now my knees are both great. I went skiing in the Alps this year.
2:14.0	And I'm thinking I'm going to go skiing outside Denver.
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