Home Dr Rangan Chatterjee brings The Thrive Tour to Portsmouth By Emma Harlen Contributor Published 16th Oct 2024, 11:48 BST Updated 16th Oct 2024, 12:24 BST Watch more of our videos on ShotsTV.com and on Freeview 262 or Freely 565 Visit Shots! now It was after a particularly busy day in his GP surgery, some 15 years ago, that Dr Rangan Chatterjee - host of Europe’s number one health podcast, Feel Better, Live More, and star of BBC One’s Doctor in the House - had the revelation that would change his life, and that of so many others. ‘I had seen fifty patients that day and I asked myself, how many have I really helped?’ he says.
‘I realised it was probably about 20% of them. Yes, I was compassionate and referred people for blood tests who needed them and wrote many prescriptions, but I realised I was medicating symptoms and not getting to the root cause of people’s problems. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad ‘And for most people, if there’s not an acute medical problem like a disease or a broken bone, what they need to be healthy is to change something in their lifestyle.
That is not what we were taught about at medical school in Edinburgh.’ Sign up to our daily newsletter Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The News, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues.
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