What's up ladies and gentlemen boys and girls around the world.

I would like to welcome you back to the Real Talk with Zubi podcast.

On today's episode we have got on a primary care physician who specializes in

functional medicine and this is Dr. Sam White. Welcome to the show.

Hi Zubi, we're really great to be here with you today to tell you what's

been going on really. No doubt man, happy to have you on. Sam I've done a real

brief intro there but for people who are not familiar with who you are and what

you do tell them a little bit about you. So I've been a doctor for Stover's 17

years. Combination I think of wanting to go into medicine came about

because you know my mom was a nurse, my dad was in the ambulance service and I

watched far too many EI episodes as a teenager and wanted to be got to

Carter so there I was going off to medical school. Last 11 years I've been

essentially in as a primary care physician in the in the community also doing a

bit of emergency work and in a palliative care hospice. I think you could

probably say that the last five years I felt a realization that medicine had

become too much about a pill for an ill. You be as a GP in this country seeing

about 40 patients a day. There wasn't time to care really. There wasn't time to

look at the root cause and that's when I you know began training and

things to functional medicine which is a lot more popular in the states and

well known in the states than here but it seeks to look at the underlying root

cause of what's going on and what might be causing that and potentially

reversing it rather than just covering it with with medication. Now I guess

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