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Hey, everyone.

Welcome to Dr. Rouser Radio.

This is Dr. Risho.

Let's jump into another episode of listener questions.

And admittedly, I feel a little bit in a weird place right now because I took some notes.

But if you take too many notes that can prevent you from

answering a question extemporaneously. So I feel like I'm in between these two endpoints

of just answering the question but also having notes that may prevent me from being as free-flowing

as I'd like to be. But there's a few important questions that are kind of bare. So the first two are pretty long winded in the answer.

So I guess let's jump in and hopefully this will sound halfway decent.

So I'll play the first question.

Hi, Dr. Rousseau.

This is Dr. Sarah DeFrancisco, calling in from Portland, Oregon. I'm really

enjoying your podcast, and I especially appreciate your discussion about advanced testing and whether

or not, you know, these exhaustive tests should be run all up front, spending thousands of dollars,

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