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Mehmet Oz: “If we don't learn these things in medical school, they…”

Featuring: Mehmet Oz, Republican | Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services | National

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Published | Video Starts at 41:34

We don't talk about taking drugs down the same way. We don't talk about nutrition because it's part of prevention. It's not part of the culture. And this is an important issue. If we don't learn these things in medical school, they cannot be important because everything we learn that's important about the health we're going to learn in medical school. So the arrogance that's associated with not learning about nutrition in medical school contaminates the entire medical space. It's something that Secretary appropriately wants to stop. (41:34–41:43)

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Asserts that medical education determines what is considered important in healthcare.

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