Trust your doctor

[JohnnyDoe]

You should trust your doctor, but first of all you should use your brain. Not necessarily the official protocol is the best solution for you.
For example, in the 18th and up to early 19th century this was the standard procedure followed for resuscitating patients:

Tobacco smoke up into your arse

 

[dimacmiles]

Yeah, trusting your doctor goes a long way.

Just look at how much healthier we are compared to say 100 years ago.

Obesity rates are down A LOT, it used to be that 90% of people were obese, now it's much better, they claim 1 in 3 in Murica (down almost 66%).

Metabolic and autoimmune disease also used to be quite more prevalent 100 years back but clearly with Medicine and Pharmaceutical advancements it's virtually non existent nowadays.

Also it used to be that you had a huge chance of dying of cancer, it was very rare for someone to make it to 60 years old because you would often die with cancer. Entire family clusters got wiped with cancer in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Nowadays chemotherapy, radiotherapy, immune therapy offers practically 99.9% survival rate and permanent remission.

Not just life expectancy, but also quality of life is great nowadays.

I absolutely trust my doctor. With all modern technology and diagnostic methods we have they have much better success rates and Medicine in the 2000s is great.

 

[void]

I absolutely trust my doctor. With all modern technology and diagnostic methods we have they have much better success rates and Medicine in the 2000s is great.

I have a huge respect for acute medicine, surgeons, reconstruction specialists etc.

On the other hand modern western medicine knows shit about chronic problems, doctors are basically distribution channels for pharmaceutical companies and monkeys following protocols they know nothing about and building a fake aura of almost mystic knowledge - it's nothing else than a new church promising salvation to people who are too busy to think about their life. An average physician has no bigger responsibility than a bus driver and no expertise bigger then your plumber or electrician.

 

[Justit]

Standard superficial check-ups are often prescribed. A specialist usually focuses on correcting a single indicator within their field, even when doing so may harm other organs, without a genuine understanding of a patient’s overall condition. Incorrect drug prescriptions are among the leading causes of death.

 

[dimacmiles]

I have a huge respect for acute medicine, surgeons, reconstruction specialists etc.

I conveniently left out Trauma medicine and think you're absolutely spot on.

On the other hand modern western medicine knows shit about chronic problems, doctors are basically distribution channels for pharmaceutical companies and monkeys following protocols they know nothing about and building a fake aura of almost mystic knowledge - it's nothing else than a new church promising salvation to people who are too busy to think about their life. An average physician has no bigger responsibility than a bus driver and no expertise bigger then your plumber or electrician.

It's intentional. The powers that be fund Med schools and Nutrition is left out of their curriculum.

Honestly fuck these quacks. I would never take petroleum based medicine, they're copycat for natural chemicals found in nature at best and poison at worst.

"Let food be thy medicine"

I don't believe a single word they say. I run my preventative blood screening and medicine.

 

[dimacmiles]

Standard superficial check-ups are often prescribed. A specialist usually focuses on correcting a single indicator within their field, even when doing so may harm other organs, without a genuine understanding of a patient’s overall condition. Incorrect drug prescriptions are among the leading causes of death.

There's a reason why statistically they're finding more and more benefit from less routine checks and that less routine checks are being recommended more and more.

Every time they change something (new medicine prescription) they change it for worse.

You're literally better and healthier if you never step foot in routine check ups, that way they won't shove a Statin or the fancy new thing down your throat.

You're spot on, stupid prescriptions are killing people and taking away quality of life.

 

[JohnnyDoe]

AI and robots will solve the problem.
Computers are already better than humans at diagnosing. Robots will soon (I guess in 10 years max) replace the manual part of the medical profession. Human doctors will remain for some time as the interface with the patient.