Let's talk about getting a second opinion, whether it's for some type of medical condition

or whatever. An effective treatment solution to a medical problem should not give you another health

problem. There are always risks involved or side effects, so you really want to make sure you're

getting the correct solution to your problem. So getting a second or a third or fourth opinion

is really just expanding the amount of data that you have so you can evaluate more effectively.

Now there's two things I want to mention. When you evaluate, you have to have good data.

You can't have false data. You also have to have all the data to evaluate. You can't have missing

data. And I want to relate this to a recent situation that I ran into with a friend who

had this condition called spondyloathesis, which is a fracture in the lower back. A lot of people

actually have this condition where the vertebrae, like the lumbar vertebrae should be aligned,

but what's happening, it's shifted forward because the back part is fractured, so then the spondycord

can pinch in the back part. It's called spondyloathesis. And so he got it from an old injury he fell on

his tailbone and apparently created a fracture. He didn't know it. Then later in life, he had

back pain. He didn't know what it was. He had an x-ray and sure enough, he had this condition.

Yet to realize that there's a lot of ligaments and tendons and muscles that hold that in place.

And so there are certain levels or grades of having this condition from grade 1, 2, 3, or 4

when it gets really severe. And so anyway, he had this condition. He went to the doctor

and he wanted a second pain from me. I looked at his x-rays. He was a grade 1. It was not

majorly severe and he had some mild symptoms and he was going to physical therapy.

And the doctor said, you better get the surgery or you're going to be a cripple.

He said the surgery is totally safe. And the physical therapy is not really long lasting. So that was

the data he had to evaluate. And so when you evaluate, you need to have all the information

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