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Today I have a friend, Dr. Arti Tangudu, on the show.

I've had her on the show before, and we've talked about thyroid health.

And that was a great episode.

So if you want to learn more, I recommend going

and listening to that episode. Today, we are going to be discussing the healthcare system and

navigating the health care system and some of the issues with our health care system and how

you can as a patient better advocate for yourself and navigate that system.

And we're going to talk about that from a little bit of an angle of hormones and endocrinology

because that's what Dr. Thanguti specializes in. She runs a direct care endocrinology clinic.

And I know most of you probably don't know what direct care is. So we'll talk about what that is, but that clinic is called Complete Medicine, and we'll go into more detail about that. Welcome to the show, Dr. Tangudu. Thanks so much for having me, Adrienne. I'm happy to be back and looking forward to having a great conversation again. Yeah, definitely. So what I want to do today is talk about your journey and specifically what got you into wanting to be a physician and then your path from going into traditional work as a physician.

And now you're moving outside of the insurance model and working in a more direct primary care system.

Yeah. So, well, I'll take you back to the beginning.

So what drove me to medicine was, well, I'm Indian,

so of course I'm supposed to do medicine,

but that's only a part of it.

But being South Asian,

we have a lot of metabolic disease in our community,

and I know in the Hispanic community, you see that as well. And we have a lot of cardiovascular disease in our community. And I know in the Hispanic community, you see that as well.

And we have a lot of cardiovascular disease in our community as well as diabetes. And actually, my first

memory ever in life was when I was three years old and my dad had a massive heart attack. And my first

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