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stoumi wrote:He seemed disappointed that I was healthy and that my cholresterol level had gone down. He got very argumentative about the risk of taking anti chloresterol drugs which I didnt need anyway. He was offended when I asked ihow well he knew another doctor he was recomending for a different procedure.
He set up a second unnecessary appointment at additional cost to both me and the insurance company. He prescribed expensive pills for my " vitamin D deficiency " when just somce sunshine and over the counter pills did the trick as evidenced by my next exam a year later by another doctor.
Very unpleasant, hard to talk to, obnoxious. !!!
What I am proposing would require revolutionary changes in the world of medicine. My father used to observe that as long as medicine was practiced on a fee-for-service piecework basis, comprehensive preventive medicine would never become the driving force in a physician’s life. He was right. As I argued in Chapter 1, there are now no incentives built into the system to encourage the public to adopt healthier lifestyles. I once asked a young interventional cardiologist why he didn’t refer his patients for a nutrition program that could arrest and reverse their disease, and he replied with a frank question: “Did you know that my billed charges last year were over five million dollars?”
This has to change. The collective will and conscience of my profession is being tested as never before. Now is the time for legendary work. Those of us who practice medicine must engage in a new covenant with the public. We must never underestimate the layman’s ability to adopt healthier lifestyles. We must tell the truth. We must relinquish the procedural focus of medicine and take pride in prevention. We must rejoice in conveying knowledge that empowers individuals to take control of their own health.
ETeSelle wrote:Get out in the sun (without sunscreen) for at least an hour or so a day and that will take care of the D needs of 99% of of the population.
ENDOCRINE CARE
Low Vitamin D Status despite Abundant Sun Exposure
N. Binkley, R. Novotny, D. Krueger, T. Kawahara, Y. G. Daida, G. Lensmeyer, B. W. Hollis and M. K. Drezner
- Author Affiliations
University of Wisconsin Osteoporosis Clinical Research Program (N.B., D.K., T.K., M.K.D.), Madison, Wisconsin 53705; Human Nutrition, Food and Animal Sciences (R.N., Y.G.D.), University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822; Laboratory Medicine (G.L.), University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53792; and Medical University of South Carolina (B.W.H.), Charleston, South Carolina 29425
ETeSelle wrote:If your D is low it's b/c you're indoors all the time! Get out in the sun (without sunscreen) for at least an hour or so a day and that will take care of the D needs of 99% of of the population.
megs wrote:ETeSelle wrote:If your D is low it's b/c you're indoors all the time! Get out in the sun (without sunscreen) for at least an hour or so a day and that will take care of the D needs of 99% of of the population.
.....Unless you happen to live in Michigan where the sun seems to only shine about 1% of the time this time of the year.
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