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Hey, everyone, this is Dr. Roushaud with some advice for functional medicine patients.

So if you're a patient working with the functional medicine practitioner,

there's one piece of advice I'd like to give you that I think will be very helpful,

and that is regarding questions. And here's a little bit of context, and bear with me as I try to explain this.

I think on the patient end, it's maybe a good feeling to say I walked into that visit, I asked every question

that I had, and I used every minute that was available with a doctor or with the clinician.

I can understand how that would, from the patient perspective, seem like the way to go.

However, that actually may not be an optimum strategy.

And what I'd recommend you do instead

and I'll explain why in a moment is take a deep breath before your visit look at the

questions that you have and do a Pareto analysis or the Pareto principle is

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