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All right, welcome back to the podcast.

I'm joined today with Craig Hicock, Dr. Craig Hicock.

He is a psychiatrist working out of Colorado, and we did an episode for his podcast, and

I am having him on my podcast.

To talk about treating VIP patients, patients that either consider themselves to be VIPs,

or maybe as medical professionals, we feel like intimidated, or we feel like we're giving

them special treatment, or we feel like a little bit more pressure, often it's people

that we sort of are unconsciously, consciously assessing, are high up the dominance hierarchy

you may be, high up, and this could be specifically the dominance hierarchy of your liking.

So if you were in a classical music, this could be, you know, Yo-Yo Ma comes in your office

for anxiety and your therapist, and it's like, this is someone you worship, and now he's

right there.

Obviously, if you don't know Yo-Yo Ma, you don't know classical music, this could be perceived

in your mind as someone who thinks he's a VIP, I don't know Yo-Yo Ma, so maybe he comes

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