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Ep.68, Crows Teaching Crows; The Empowered Sleep Apnea Project, Dr. Dave McCarty
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- Dec 29, 2025
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🎙️ PODCAST DESCRIPTION In this episode of the ASAP Pathway Podcast, Dr. Stacy is joined by Dr. David McCarty for a deeply thoughtful conversation about how patients—children and adults—are often misunderstood, mislabeled, and mistreated when care focuses on symptoms instead of root cause. Drawing from neuroscience, clinical experience, and real patient stories, Dr. McCarty challenges the way we approach diagnoses such as ADHD, anxiety, sleep disorders, and behavioral dysregulation. He explains how airway function, tongue stability, neurological signaling, and chronic physiological stress can quietly shape how patients think, feel, sleep, and function—often for years before anyone connects the dots. This episode speaks to the exhausted patient, the frustrated provider, and the family searching for answers, highlighting how siloed care and rushed labels can leave people stuck in cycles of treatment that never fully address what’s happening beneath the surface. At its core, this conversation is a call to slow down, listen better, and approach patients as whole humans—across all ages—whose bodies are communicating long before pathology shows up on a chart. LISTEN HERE for the Crows Teaching Crows Song! 🐦⬛🎶🔗 Dr. Dave is Co-Creator (with Ellen Stothard, PhD) of the Empowered Sleep Apnea Project! 🔗 Dr Dave McCarty on LinkedIn 🔗 FB Empowered Sleep Apnea 🔗 Dr. Dave as CMO of Rebis Health! 🔗 🎧 EPISODE CHAPTERS 📖 00:00 – Welcome to ASAP Pathway & Setting the Tone for the Conversation 00:16 – Introducing Dr. David McCarty & Why This Episode Matters 00:26 – The “Cartoon” That Explains Where Airway & Diagnosis Are Right Now 11:27 – Neurology, Anatomy & Why Symptoms Aren’t the Root Problem 13:22 – Development, Adaptation & What Happens When the Body Compensates 1…