Re: Question


"Robby" <Classy2008@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>
> >
> > It's simple--people eat the wrong types of food.
> > If you drive down a major street in any city, you will
> > see the fast food restaurants. Those restaurant chains
> > such as MacDonalds, Burger King and Pizza Hut--make
> > millions of dollars each year. I doubt if you see very
> > many of those same restaurants in other countries.
> > If every person in America ate the right types of
> > food and exercised every day--America would rank
> > number 1 in terms of over all health.
> > Jason
>
> Thats true and thanks for the response. We made that point on a number
> of occasions. It seems though that for the most part doctors arent
> willing to go the extra mile to work with their patients on those
> issues plus it seems so much easier to prescribe drugs or pin their
> stomachs closed.
>
> Ive also read that doctors kill hundreds of thousands of people every
> year because of prescribing the wrong drugs. My friend says his
> neighbor always shows up in the operating room hungover or stoned but
> personally I dont believe that many doctors do that. I think doctors
> should work harder at teaching their patients to be healthy rather than
> giving them drugs all the time.
>
> Thanks
>

The problem is as you stated Rob. People think that doctors are responsible
for THEIR health.
It's not up the doctor to teach people about THEIR health. Nobody has to
teach somebody to eat right and exercise.
Only an affluent society gives up it's right to eat right and exercise and
gives it up to the doctor to treat.
It's the mind set and not the doctors or healthcare so get it out of your
head that it's up to the doctors to teach people.
If a 500 lb person comes to your office either two things will happen:
nothing and the person dies or ; you staple or cut out stomach to save their
lives.
Get real as poverty brings disease and affluence brings in disease.


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