I've been a doctor for 25 years - this is where the system fails

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Released

January 16, 2026

Duration

21m

Channel

Dr Rangan Chatterjee

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📝 EPISODE DESCRIPTION

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• Dr. Rangan Chatterjee

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  Medical doctor and health communicator behind the Dr Rangan Chatterjee channel, discussing healthcare and lifestyle medicine.

🧾 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Dr Rangan Chatterjee, featuring Dr. Rangan Chatterjee, I've been a doctor for 25 years - this is where the system fails explores a veteran doctor on medicine’s lifestyle blind spot and overmedication Chatterjee says medical training prioritizes diagnosing disease and prescribing drugs, while offering little education on lifestyle causation or how to support behavior change.

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