Rahil
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Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
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I know, and so I don't know if I can tell her whenever this podcast comes out if she can listen to it or if I just have to cut it halfway.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
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We've kind of talked about it, and they've told me what her preferences are. Oh, for God's sake.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
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I think they can keep a secret, so I'm hoping.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
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Um, no, they've said, you know, they, they're a family of jewelers, um, couple of generations. So jewelry is very ingrained. I think they've always talked about that kind of stuff, like over the dinner table, probably. Um, and so they, they, they definitely know her preferences. Um, and I think that they definitely guide me the right way. They're, they're sweet people.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
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And this is obviously said, you know, with a touch of jest, but, um,
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
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Thank you guys so much. It was so great meeting you guys.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
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Yeah, no. So I've done... So, you know, our med school is four years after our undergrad. And then we do three years of internal medicine, which is all, you know, patient-facing, hospital-based, long days, long hours. And then... GI hepatology is another three years after that. So I'm about halfway through right now. So it's been about four and a half, five years of seeing patients.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
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Hey, Raheel. How are you? I'm doing amazing. So excited to meet you guys.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
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That's the hope. I mean, you know, even this many years in it, every day it feels like I'm still trying to figure out what's going on with everybody. So it's one of those things where learning never stops. You kind of keep going at it. New things, new experiences, new patient interactions. It all makes it worth it.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
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So I'm down in Miami. Oh, okay. Other side of the U.S., yeah.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
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Yeah, yeah. So we kind of get into it from day one from our training. So, you know, our first year we're fumbling around trying to figure out what we're doing. It's a new technical skill and it's, you know, not necessarily intuitive when you get started. And then, you know, over the first year, you really get your confidence.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
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And then second year, you really start to build your skill, build your efficiency.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
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Exactly. You ask, after they wake up, they ask, are we getting started? And that's the magic of Provo Fall.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
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I would like to think so. You know, my attendings might say otherwise behind closed doors, but at least to my face, I say I'm doing well.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
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Yeah. So I'm currently in my fellowship. So I finished med school and I did my training. I'm still currently in my training and I'm doing gastroenterology and hepatology.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
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They have one of those for the small bowel, for like the small intestine. But the colon is just so wide and distended, it can't really take pictures of the whole thing. And thankfully, I hope it doesn't because then I'll be out of a job.
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No. And it's like, it's always a running joke. Whenever you see GI fellows, you can always like tell who they are in the hospital because they're literally just running to the cafeteria, stuffing whatever the food they can in their mouth between procedures and then running back to the procedure room.
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The field and the, you know, the practice is just so fast paced and we're just running to see patients, running to do procedures. Um, I like literally when I tell patients and counsel them in clinic, I just basically say everything I don't do in my life.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
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I'll be stuffing a pizza in my mouth as I'm telling them that.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
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I try to be. I'm vegetarian, you know, just religiously. So that kind of lends itself to eating more like, you know, lentils and vegetables and getting your greens in.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
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And hepatology. So they go kind of hand in hand.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
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I think, well, so I think the, I don't know, this is just what I've seen off of Instagram probably, but.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
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No, I was going to say, I feel like I've seen some people or some some some some other experts kind of saying that the data around intermittent fasting isn't all that it was cracked up to be earlier. So, you know, but, you know, as far as fasting, I do not necessarily for the health benefits, but I did just in terms of religion. Oh, OK.
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Yeah. So my religion is called Jainism. So practitioners are called Jain. And so we have kind of, you know, there's similar things in other cultures. There's like Ramadan for people who follow Islam. There's like Lent and things like that. But in Jainism, we have this eight day ritual. eight or 10 day religious festival called Baryushin. And during that time we can do different days of fasting.
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You know, some people will do just the last day, um, and then, you know, kind of as much as you can. So I've done eight day fasts, basically no food. Eight day fast.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
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Just boiled water when there's daylight out. And this kind of stretches back to the start of the religion and the different pre-technology ages and stuff like that. But yeah, just water for eight days.
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I don't. This was all pre-med school. This was like me in undergrad, me in med school.
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I don't think it's the healthiest. I don't think it's the healthiest thing to do. I do think it's a really interesting test of determination, interesting test of self-will. And you can really push your body to the limit in a way that, you know, outside of thinking medical, but you can really see what your body is capable of in those eight days.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
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Yeah, no, you can live life as is. You know, one, the first time I did it, I was an undergrad. The second time I was in med school and you live life as is, you know, the first couple of days are the hardest where you're, you know, I feel like if it's 11 o'clock and I'm like, it's lunchtime, your body's just so used to it.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
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And then after like day one, day two, your body kind of adjusts to that feeling of I'm not eating. And so let me occupy myself with other stuff. And then The rest of the week, honestly, just kind of, you just don't feel that sensation of hunger as much. You know why?
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Yeah. No, I mean, I just going through the experience, it really showed like what the body is capable of. Um, was it the health distancing? I doubt it. Um, but it was an experience.
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So you actually have to go very slow because you basically have to re-wake your bowel. And you're not going to like this, but it's not even lentils, but it's like lentil water. So like the water that you cook your lentils in.
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We can just reconfigure it so that hepatology is actually blood. I'm doing great. It's great to meet you guys.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
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Yeah, it's just that and like sugar water. And you just try to wake your, you know, wake your GI system back up and then you slowly, slowly advance diet.
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I do. And it's like a life dilemma that I'd love to get some insight of yours. So I am planning on proposing to my girlfriend. And so I'm about to start the whole ring shopping thing. And her parents happen to be jewelers. And so I'd like to know how you would kind of navigate the clear conflict of interest when I have no negotiating power on my side.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
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I do, but how would I get the best deal or negotiate my way when I have no power on my side?
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
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Yeah, I actually learned that from your podcast earlier.
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Yeah. At my current fellow salary, I don't think I can afford anything that's going to get stuck.