UnCURABLE | Part 2
The 5 Biggest Blind Spots in Modern Medicine
(and What They’re Costing Us)
Aaron Hartman MD
November 11, 2025
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Our healthcare system is failing all of us.
It didn’t just fail my daughter, it has failed every patient who walks into my clinic today. That’s why they come to see me.
A typical patient I see has been to multiple specialists — sometimes even at major university medical centers. They’ve been told there’s nothing wrong with them, that they can’t be helped, or worst of all: “It’s all in your head.”
Even with all our advanced treatments and expertise, there are still massive blind spots — places where people like Sarah, a 35-year-old marketing executive I treated, fall through the cracks.
This isn’t a story of failure. It’s a story about what happens when we stop asking questions. Here are five of the biggest blind spots I see in modern medicine, and what they’re costing us.
Blind Spot #1: The Illusion of Medical Infallibility
We’ve all been taught to see doctors as all-knowing. We take their words as gospel truth. But the reality is, medicine isn’t perfect (and it never has been).
Even with our best intentions, medicine often gets it wrong. We once thought smoking was safe, prescribed lobotomies for depression, and performed radical mastectomies for early breast cancer. It took decades — and thousands of lives — before those practices were corrected.
We once thought smoking was safe, prescribed lobotomies for depression, and performed radical mastectomies for early breast cancer. It took decades — and thousands of lives — before those practices were corrected.
When my wife Becky and I adopted our daughter Anna, that illusion shattered. Doctors told us she’d never walk or talk, and that she’d need a feeding tube for the rest of her life. When we questioned that recommendation, we were reported to Child Protective Services for “medical neglect.”
Our crime? Feeding our daughter real food instead of sugar-laden formula.
That experience became my wake-up call: when the system is threatened, it doesn’t correct itself; it punishes those who ask questions.
Blind Spot #2: The Education Gap — What Doctors Aren’t Taught
After three board certifications and 25 years in medicine, I can tell you this with certainty: The more I learn, the more I realize I just don’t know.
What your physician doesn’t know could have a negative impact on you.
Most physicians finish residency and never open another textbook outside of required continuing education credits. Yet the science of health is advancing faster than ever.
When I discovered that raising vitamin D levels near 100 could reduce the recurrence of breast cancer as effectively as certain medications, it changed how I practiced medicine … but it also made me wonder: why hadn’t I learned this earlier?
Blind Spot #3: The Gut — The Root Cause Medicine Forgot
When Sarah came to me, she was exhausted, inflamed, and losing hope. Every test she’d had was “normal.” Every specialist had shrugged.
I spent over two hours listening — not rushing — and found what others missed: chronic mold exposure and a gut disorder known as SIBO (Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth).
By healing her gut and removing her from a toxic environment, everything changed. Her symptoms faded, her health rebounded, and the following year, she and her husband’s dream finally came true: she got pregnant.
Stories like Sarah’s aren’t rare for me. I see them every week — patients who were overlooked until someone dared to look deeper.
Mainstream medicine still dismisses gut health as fringe, even though 70% of your immune system lives there. Ancient physicians like Hippocrates called it millennia ago: “All disease begins in the gut.” Modern labs are only just catching up.
Blind Spot #4: The Time Trap
Our system rewards speed, not insight. Fifteen-minute office visits are enough to renew a prescription, not to rebuild a life.
Healing takes more than 15-minute office visits. It takes a doctor who keeps learning, and patients willing to do hard things.
Medicine was designed for emergencies: infections, broken bones, acute illness. But 80% of what we face today is chronic: fatigue, pain, autoimmunity, inflammation, stress. You can’t fix those in a quarter-hour slot.
Functional medicine exists because people got tired of feeling unheard. It exists because healing takes time (and the system doesn’t give it).
Blind Spot #5: The Science Trap — Confusing Consensus with Truth
It’s kind of weird how people use the word science as if it’s a magical charm or talisman to negate everything you’ve said. I believe deeply in science. But science isn’t a fixed set of answers; it’s a process of asking better questions.
Yet today, many hide behind “science” as a shield against curiosity. If something isn’t published in a particular journal, it’s labeled “unscientific.” But that’s how innovation dies.
Think about it:
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Hyperbaric oxygen therapy, now FDA-approved for multiple conditions, was once dismissed as pseudoscience.
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Low-dose naltrexone (LDN) and methylene blue (both covered in UnCURABLE) were ignored for decades despite strong data .
Turning Blind Spots into Breakthroughs
The system is not all bad, but it needs to work better for those it’s supposed to care for. Facing the system and standing your ground is where lives change — where parents become fighters, where patients become advocates, where hope finds a way.
You don’t need a medical degree to see the gaps. You just need curiosity, courage, and the willingness to ask better questions.
To help you do that, I created “How to Talk to Your Doctor” — a practical guide included free with every copy of UnCURABLE: From Hopeless Diagnosis to Defying All Odds.
When you order the book, you’ll get instant access to this companion resource — the same framework I teach my patients for navigating complex medical decisions and advocating for their care.
Bonus Resource: How to Talk to Your Doctor (included with your copy)
Remember, if Anna can defy every expectation, so can you.
Discover the full story behind Dr. Hartman’s methods.
His new book, UnCURABLE: From Hopeless Diagnosis to Defying All Odds, reveals the principles that helped thousands of patients — and his own daughter — heal when the system had no answers.
