![]() ![]() They'll have you eat your way into the grave with the wrong types of cancer promoting foods. Oncologists can kill their cancer patients with their calories-above-all stricture. Their knowledge of nutrition is so bad, however, compared to the rest of their competence, as to not deserving any respect unless confirmed through other researched sources. Net, net, doctors will do a good job for you in the reactive context. If it weren't for pharmacists they would do a lot more harm than they do. (The worst authority abusers, however, in my experience, are registered nurses in hospitals and rehabilitation centers, albeit only a small percentage.) Generally speaking, doctors usually go wrong in the medications they prescribe as opposed to other areas. They don't do this with me because they know almost immediately I'm not the average patient, but I had to set some straight when they were dealing with elderly relatives of mine. Now few laymen have my own medical knowledge and experience and they become completely dependent of the doctor's knowledge and authority. A doctor will see you for 15 minutes and work off your chart and what you tell him on the current visit. ![]() Five doctors couldn't figure it out, I finally did-and all I did was slightly change my diet. I once had a situation it took me two years to figure out and what was probably an unnecessary tonsillectomy. Lack of competence comes from the mediocrity not capable of dealing with a difficult diagnosis. Maybe 95% or more of the time your doctor will be competent enough. Most medicine is reactive and for different diseases and conditions and people affected thereby there is a constantly varying ratio between science and art. ![]()
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