The average wait time to see a primary care doctor is 19 days. And after waiting nearly 3 weeks to be seen, typical lobby wait times are 1-2 hours. Then, if you're lucky, you'll get 5 minutes with your doctor. People are frustrated and deserve more. This show will give you everything you need for you and your doctor to have meaningful conversations. And, frankly, some of these conversations might just save your life.
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The Power of Health Multipliers: Find Your 3 to 4 Game-Changers
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36:26The Future of Medicine Podcast, where we believe in promoting overall health and prevention over just treating sickness. Join us for the latest in medical advancements and expert advice. Subscribe and explore: https://youtube.com/@BrentwoodMD In the world of health optimization, we’re bombarded with an overwhelming array of options: new supplements…
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Personalize Your Care: Health Optimization, Early Cancer Detection, and Metabolic Management
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17:30The Future of Medicine Podcast, where we believe in promoting overall health and prevention over just treating sickness. Join us for the latest in medical advancements and expert advice. Subscribe and explore: https://youtube.com/@BrentwoodMD As a concierge physician, part of my job is to think about my members’ health even when they don’t have tim…
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Real-Life Weight Loss Case Studies to Inspire Your Journey
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36:12The Future of Medicine Podcast, where we believe in promoting overall health and prevention over just treating sickness. Join us for the latest in medical advancements and expert advice. Subscribe and explore: https://youtube.com/@BrentwoodMD Both now and in the past, I’ve dedicated my career to helping people achieve optimal health. Few areas of m…
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The Longevity Mindset: Add Decades to Your Life and Feel Good Doing It
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26:10The Future of Medicine Podcast, where we believe in promoting overall health and prevention over just treating sickness. Join us for the latest in medical advancements and expert advice. Subscribe and explore: https://youtube.com/@BrentwoodMD We all juggle countless worries every day. But when one of them is your health, you really only have one wo…
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Understanding and Managing Upper Extremity Pain, with Dr. Samuel Crosby
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49:33The Future of Medicine Podcast, where we believe in promoting overall health and prevention over just treating sickness. Join us for the latest in medical advancements and expert advice. Subscribe and explore: https://youtube.com/@BrentwoodMD The functionality of our upper extremities is essential for almost every aspect of daily life. From lifting…
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How Perfectionism Fuels Shame in High-Achievers and How to Break Free From the Cycle
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26:25The Future of Medicine Podcast, where we believe in promoting overall health and prevention over just treating sickness. Join us for the latest in medical advancements and expert advice. Subscribe and explore: https://youtube.com/@BrentwoodMD High-achieving individuals tend to struggle with perfectionism — with striving to achieve an ideal outcome …
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Spotlight Edition: Insights on Navigating Stress, Parenting, and Healthy Eating, With Dr. Lauren King
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47:43The Future of Medicine Podcast, where we believe in promoting overall health and prevention over just treating sickness. Join us for the latest in medical advancements and expert advice. Subscribe and explore: https://youtube.com/@BrentwoodMD Join Dr. Craig Wright as he welcomes Dr. Lauren King, a licensed psychologist from Southeast Psych Nashvill…
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Why Men Give Up on Their Health — and How to Take It Back for Good
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41:12The Future of Medicine Podcast, where we believe in promoting overall health and prevention over just treating sickness. Join us for the latest in medical advancements and expert advice. Subscribe and explore: https://youtube.com/@BrentwoodMD There’s a pattern I’ve observed over the years working with men — particularly high-achieving men who are d…
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Spotlight Edition: Advanced Imaging and AI Lead to Big Changes in Cardiovascular Care, With Dr. James Earls
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43:49The Future of Medicine Podcast, where we believe in promoting overall health and prevention over just treating sickness. Join us for the latest in medical advancements and expert advice. Subscribe and explore: https://youtube.com/@BrentwoodMD Dr. Wright sits down with Dr. James Earls, a pioneer in advanced cardiovascular imaging, to explore the pot…
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90 Is the New 60! How to Add 30 Impactful Years to Your Life
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25:17The Future of Medicine Podcast, where we believe in promoting overall health and prevention over just treating sickness. Join us for the latest in medical advancements and expert advice. Subscribe and explore: https://youtube.com/@BrentwoodMD The average life expectancy in our country is about 78 years, up from 70 years just a few decades ago. Mode…
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Spotlight Edition: Gut Health, Heartburn, and Cancer Prevention With Dr. Spiceland
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44:21The Future of Medicine Podcast, where we believe in promoting overall health and prevention over just treating sickness. Join us for the latest in medical advancements and expert advice. Subscribe and explore: https://youtube.com/@BrentwoodMD Get ready for a gut check! In this episode, Dr. Wright sits down with gastroenterologist Dr. Spiceland to d…
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Health, Wealth, and Happiness: A Physician’s Take on Living Through Purpose
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50:08The Future of Medicine Podcast, where we believe in promoting overall health and prevention over just treating sickness. Join us for the latest in medical advancements and expert advice. Subscribe and explore: https://youtube.com/@BrentwoodMD Some quotes just have that ring of truth about them. One that captures and conveys a reality so many high-a…
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Spotlight Edition: New Insights on Heart Health With Dr. James Gentry
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44:21The Future of Medicine Podcast, where we believe in promoting overall health and prevention over just treating sickness. Join us for the latest in medical advancements and expert advice. Subscribe and explore: https://youtube.com/@BrentwoodMD In this eye-opening episode of Spotlight Edition, host Dr. Craig Wright sits down with cardiologist Dr. Jam…
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Navigating Cancer Screenings in 2024: Play Offense AND Defense
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28:25The Future of Medicine Podcast, where we believe in promoting overall health and prevention over just treating sickness. Join us for the latest in medical advancements and expert advice. Subscribe and explore: https://youtube.com/@BrentwoodMD The number one killer of humans is heart disease, and right behind it at number two is cancer. The latest d…
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The Future of Medicine Podcast, where we believe in promoting overall health and prevention over just treating sickness. Join us for the latest in medical advancements and expert advice. Subscribe and explore: https://youtube.com/@BrentwoodMD In our latest podcast, we revisited the herculean task of addressing how to parent yourself — or reparent y…
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Spotlight Edition: Physical Therapy for Optimal Health With Dr. Brazelton
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42:50The Future of Medicine Podcast, where we believe in promoting overall health and prevention over just treating sickness. Join us for the latest in medical advancements and expert advice. Subscribe and explore: https://youtube.com/@BrentwoodMD Join me as I sit down with Dr. Tyler Brazelton, owner of Excel Health and Performance in Nashville, for an …
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Spotlight Edition: Sleep Is Our Superpower with Dr. Bijoy John
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44:18The Future of Medicine Podcast, where we believe in promoting overall health and prevention over just treating sickness. Join us for the latest in medical advancements and expert advice. Subscribe and explore: https://youtube.com/@BrentwoodMD In this “Spotlight Edition” of The Future of Medicine Podcast, our host, Dr. Craig Wright, is joined by Dr.…
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Osteoporosis: A Top 10 Killer of Women (That No One’s Talking About)
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36:47The Future of Medicine Podcast, where we believe in promoting overall health and prevention over just treating sickness. Join us for the latest in medical advancements and expert advice. Subscribe and explore: https://youtube.com/@BrentwoodMD We spend a lot of time talking about top killers like cancer, heart disease, and dementia on this blog. But…
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Cardiovascular Blind Spots and How Cleerly Is Changing the Game (Again)
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32:56The Future of Medicine Podcast, where we believe in promoting overall health and prevention over just treating sickness. Join us for the latest in medical advancements and expert advice. Subscribe and explore: https://youtube.com/@BrentwoodMD If your goal is to live a long time and feel great, then appropriately risk stratifying your cardiovascular…
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How Zone 2 Training Benefits Fitness and Longevity
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23:17The Future of Medicine Podcast, where we believe in promoting overall health and prevention over just treating sickness. Join us for the latest in medical advancements and expert advice. Subscribe and explore: https://youtube.com/@BrentwoodMD One topic that’s been generating a lot of buzz in the health and fitness realms lately is Zone 2 training. …
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3 Simple Diet Habits to Prioritize for Health and Longevity
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32:00The Future of Medicine Podcast, where we believe in promoting overall health and prevention over just treating sickness. Join us for the latest in medical advancements and expert advice. Subscribe and explore: https://youtube.com/@BrentwoodMD As a concierge doctor, I’m committed to helping my patients live their longest, healthiest lives. What that…
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From Successful to Fulfilled: Aligning Discipline With Life’s Vision
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23:45The Future of Medicine Podcast, where we believe in promoting overall health and prevention over just treating sickness. Join us for the latest in medical advancements and expert advice.Subscribe and explore:https://youtube.com/@BrentwoodMDNearly everyone practices a little goal-setting in January.The new year is a reasonable time to reflect on the…
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6 Things I Want My Children to Know The Most
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24:21The Future of Medicine Podcast, where we believe in promoting overall health and prevention over just treating sickness. Join us for the latest in medical advancements and expert advice.Subscribe and explore:https://youtube.com/@BrentwoodMDAs parents, one of the greatest privileges we have is the opportunity to shape our children into the people we…
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Screening Smarter: How to Protect Yourself from Common Cancers
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30:12The Future of Medicine Podcast, where we believe in promoting overall health and prevention over just treating sickness. Join us for the latest in medical advancements and expert advice.Subscribe and explore:https://youtube.com/@BrentwoodMDWe discuss a lot of cutting-edge topics on the Future of Medicine podcast. Maybe one day we’ll discuss a cure …
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Alcohol Has Benefits, but They Come at a Cost
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29:50If you consume any amount of alcohol, this is a conversation about how to think about it.We’re not here to bash alcohol or suggest you become a teetotaler. We want you to be thoughtful about why you consume it and how it affects your body and mind. Because if you have health goals — and if you’re having trouble meeting them — you’re probably undere…
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Making Gains in Our Understanding of Weight Loss
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34:16Weight loss is one of the most frequent conversations we have in our practice. Our members are never short on questions, concerns, frustration, and confusion, and I’m here for it.In our society, diet and fitness have almost taken on a cult-like status, with strict rules and regulations guiding the pursuit of transcendence (e.g., the beach body).As …
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Dementia Update 2023: Cure Elusive, but Risk Factors Coming to Light
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32:14They say no news is good news, but that isn’t always true.When it comes to dementia, we very much want there to be news. We’ve spent the last 25–30 years searching for a cure — or even a treatment — but it continues to elude us.While we can’t treat Alzheimer’s at this time, if we can identify it early, we might be able to slow it down long enough t…
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Pioneering Cardiovascular Progress: The 3 Cutting Edge Diagnostic and Therapeutic Tools You Need to Know About in 2023
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43:25As someone who’s navigating my own cardiovascular risk profile along with those of my patients, I’m excited to share with you the three cutting-edge diagnostic and therapeutic tools you need to know about in 2023 for cardiovascular risk reduction.But first, let’s rewind: what exactly is heart disease?…
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If you’ve read our blog or listened to our podcast before, you’ve heard Jen and I talk about metabolic syndrome as a significant contributor to disease and an antagonist to longevity.This topic is so significant that we’ll dedicate this entire post to it, answering questions like: What is metabolic syndrome? How do you diagnose metabolic syndrome? …
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The 3 Pillars of Health: Pillar #3 — The Recovery of Sleep
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24:50To really make significant progress in optimizing our health, we have to learn to recover better. And by that, I mean we need to learn to sleep better. Because the most important aspect of recovery in the human experience is sleep.To be clear, this post isn’t an instruction manual on how to sleep better, though we’ve covered some best practices for…
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This month, my podcast copilot Jen Justus and I get into part two of our three-part series, “The Three Pillars of Health.”Part two is a subject we’re both deeply passionate about: how we need to move our bodies in the physical fitness journey toward our best self. That’s the reason we exercise: we deserve those results.…
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The 3 Pillars of Health: Pillar #1 — Eating
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29:19This month, my podcast copilot Jen Justus and I cover part one of a three-part series I’m calling “The Three Pillars of Health.”Here in part one, we discuss eating — a vitally important topic that really hits home for both Jen and I. Specifically, we take an in-depth look at how we should feed our bodies and how to optimize our diet.…
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How Parenting Yourself Is the Surprising Secret to Healthy Growth
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31:33Parenting oneself is an incredibly powerful and rich concept introduced in previous episodes by this month’s podcast guest, Dr. Brian Hooper — psychotherapist, pastoral counselor extraordinaire, and dear friend of mine. Together, we dug deep to discover further application, beauty, and power in this subject.Parenting yourself may not be what you th…
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A Doctor’s Surprises Since Becoming a Concierge Physician
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30:05In today’s episode, host Dr. Aaron Wenzel sits down with his new colleague, Dr. Craig Wright. Dr. Wright recaps his medical journey and explains how his practice has changed since joining Brentwood MD.By Aaron Wenzel, MD
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At Brentwood MD, we talk a lot about the latest and greatest options for health care. Here, my fantastic podcast copilot, Jen Justus, and I review the basic screening tests you need to get for three of the most common cancers: breast, prostate, and colon. These tests are readily available, inexpensive, and don’t require a fancy concierge service.An…
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An Honest Discussion About Risks vs. Benefits of Alcohol
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25:59In this month’s podcast, Jen Justus and I discuss the risks AND benefits of alcohol and how to evaluate them in relation to your health.I want to provide you with a framework to have an honest conversation with yourself about your health goals and how alcohol factors in.No matter how much you drink, you should know both the risks and the benefits o…
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This month, my podcast copilot Jen Justus and I talk about a modern-day epidemic. It’s a disease that’s become so common in the United States that we’ve almost normalized it — a dangerous development that keeps us from talking about just how harmful this disease is.By Aaron Wenzel, MD
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Dementia: New Insights and a Plan for Action
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33:12In this month’s podcast, Jen Justus and I aren’t helping people become dementia experts — because even the experts are still confused. Instead, we provide some framework for how to think about this important topic, information about what dementia is, and how we diagnose it using dementia diagnostic tests.…
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Did you know that your body only has one mechanism to lower blood sugar, other than exercise? Insulin. But what happens when that one mechanism begins to fail? In today’s blog, we’re going to unpack the concept of insulin resistance. I believe it is one of the most important and critical topics in all of medicine for the next 20 years. In fact, I w…
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Cancer Screening: The Old Way vs. the New Way
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34:32Recently on the podcast, Jen and I talked about perhaps one of the most frightening health-related topics on the planet: cancer. Cancer is the number two killer of human beings, second only to heart disease. In fact, approximately every minute someone in the United States dies from cancer.By Aaron Wenzel, MD
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Cardiovascular Update 2022: New Way vs. Old Way
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29:03Heart disease is the number one killer of humans on the planet, and it has been for generations. In fact, every 36 seconds, someone in the United States dies from cardiovascular disease. On the podcast this month, Jen and I discuss a new way of approaching heart disease and some tactical steps you can take to address your risk factors.…
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This month on the podcast, Jen and I talk all about enemy #1: metabolic disease. If we want to improve the health and well-being of our society, metabolic disease is the single area in which we have to do a better job. Today we’ll talk about what metabolic disease is, why it happens, and five actionable ways to delay its onset.…
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All science and research tell us that we must sleep. Without it, we die. It’s just as essential as water, food, and oxygen.So why is it so easy for modern humans to neglect this critical part of our health? Why is it so undervalued and taken for granted?As healthcare practitioners, Jen Justus and I have seen firsthand how devastating the effects of…
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In this month’s podcast, I exchange stories and wisdom with the one and only Jen Justus. We discuss not only our personal experiences with strength training but also the feeling of magic we get in doing difficult things.In many ways, it really is like magic. You suffer through a grueling physical challenge that pushes you to your limit and, voilà, …
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Freedom in Discipline: Why Dieting Is Not the Answer
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25:53For this month’s podcast, the always-brilliant Jen Justus joined me to discuss weight loss and why dieting is not the answer. Among other things, we agreed that weight loss is usually temporary when achieved through dieting.Intermittent fasting, on the other hand, produces both short-term and long-term benefits by sustainably applying discipline in…
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The Momentum Multiplier turns goal-setting on its head so that you focus not on the goal as the destination, but on the journey. The celebration happens during the journey, as we notice our progress, honor who we become, and value the relationships we develop along the way.By Aaron Wenzel, MD
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Peak mental health isn’t simply the opposite of mental illness. Peak mental health isn’t a static achievement but a dynamic journey of self-discovery. In my ongoing conversations about this topic, I sat down again with clinical psychologist and minister Dr. Hooper to discuss peak mental health.By Aaron Wenzel, MD
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I sat down with male fertility and men’s health specialist Dr. Matthew Pollard to discuss some of the most important aspects of male infertility. By bringing this subject to light, I hope you can gain a new perspective on infertility and clarity around the best next steps to take if you’re experiencing issues.…
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If addiction is losing connection with your most authentic self to the grips of a perpetual, uncontrollable urge, then what is the opposite? And how do we claim that somebody has “recovered” from addiction?By Aaron Wenzel, MD
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The Art of Fulfillment: Why Success Is Never Enough
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32:25By exploring the core elements of fulfillment, I hope to guide you down the path that offers the greatest opportunity to enjoy a fulfilled and successful life.By Aaron Wenzel, MD
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