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Author Topic:   My health journey and why I no longer believe everything my doctors say
AnswersInGenitals
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Message 15 of 39 (846282)
01-02-2019 3:45 PM
Reply to: Message 13 by coffee_addict
01-01-2019 2:59 PM


Re: Started Fast at 7 PM Wednesday.
Doctors are supposed to be men of science, yes?
It is a big mistake to think of doctors as scientists (at least the ones who treat us, not research doctors). They really aren't even engineers. The closest analogy is that they are like auto mechanics taking their information from shop manuals plus a lot of guesswork.
Having said that, I should also say that I have great respect and admiration for all the doctors I have ever had. But that may be because I am an anti-Lammy: at age 79 I have never had a serious or chronic illness, never a broken bone, never spent overnight in a hospital except when I was born). And I use a health care service (Kaiser Permanente) that practices minimalist medicine. They pay their doctors a straight salary so there's no incentive to overprescribe medicine, tests or procedures, which works great for me.
Lammy, I am amazed at your medical history, that just changing eating habits resolved so many symptoms. There is a flurry of activity in medical research looking at the effects of our microbiome on our medical, emotional, and physical status. Perhaps it was the fellow travelers in your gut that were causing all the problems and starving them either killed off the bad actors or just got them to behave properly. I hate to suggest it, but it would be interesting and scientifically relevant to see if returning to your prior eating regime brought back the symptoms you suffered. It's in the cause of science.
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Message 23 of 39 (846308)
01-03-2019 2:33 PM
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01-03-2019 9:36 AM


drs = mechanics
To be fair, the one thing to consider is that doctors have to see multiple patients a day and depending on the load, it can be quite a blur. Engineers usually can focus on one problem at a time and work towards resolution of that problem. So we can operate more linearly. Doctors often have to multitask and are often dealing with minimal information.
Welcome to the world of the auto mechanic.

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