Two medical doctors pull back the curtain on the disturbing truth about our healthcare system in this groundbreaking conversation. Dr. Jenn Simmons, formerly the first fellowship-trained breast surgeon in Philadelphia, and her host share their parallel journeys from conventional medicine to a complete paradigm shift in healing.

After years of surgical training and practice, both doctors independently discovered that much of what they'd been taught was fundamentally flawed. "Most of what I learned was wrong," Dr. Simmons reveals, explaining how her own health crisis forced her to question everything. This awakening led her to functional medicine and a revolutionary approach to breast cancer care that addresses root causes rather than just symptoms.

The conversation exposes how hospitals and doctors profit from keeping patients sick rather than truly healing them. "The only way doctors get paid, the only way hospitals get paid, is if you're sick," they explain, detailing how the system uses fear to trap patients in cycles of harmful treatments. They discuss the alarming rates of overdiagnosis in breast cancer—up to 180,000 women annually receiving unnecessary treatments—and how standard screening practices like mammography may cause more harm than good.

Particularly powerful is their examination of how medical language itself becomes a weapon. The word "cancer" creates such fear that rational decision-making becomes impossible, pushing patients into treatments that often decrease both quality and quantity of life. Instead, they advocate for understanding tumors as messages from the body that something needs to change, not enemies to be eradicated.

Listen as these pioneering physicians share stories of patients who defied terminal diagnoses by taking control of their healing journey, and discover why these success st

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