re: Medical disinformation and crackpot advice is out of control

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As a primary care physician, I hear this type of stuff all the time.

Parents bring their kids in and want them swabbed for everything, but yet don't want modern medicines to help them. They want their home remedies.

Well by all means, don't' let me stand in your way.

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I'm intrigued to get your opinion as a PCP on a subject I talked about earlier in the thread. Obviously, taking medications for infections and things of that nature can be hugely beneficial and oftentimes life saving but what's your read on the massive numbers of prescriptions being written for long-term disease prevention?

As a regular joe, it's difficult to trust that I need to take lifelong medication like statins and follow establishment food recommendations, like avoiding red meat, when all I see is a population that's getting fatter, sicker and more medicated.

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Obviously big potato and big garlic haven't lined your pockets well enough.

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Yes that is exactly why I do what I do.

Seriously though, I get $0 from writing medications for patients. This is such blatant misinformation.

Keep taking the big potato and big garlic if you want.

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I'm intrigued to get your opinion as a PCP on a subject I talked about earlier in the thread. Obviously, taking medications for infections and things of that nature can be hugely beneficial and oftentimes life saving but what's your read on the massive numbers of prescriptions being written for long-term disease prevention?

As a regular joe, it's difficult to trust that I need to take lifelong medication like statins and follow establishment food recommendations, like avoiding red meat, when all I see is a population that's getting fatter, sicker and more medicated.

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I think you almost answered your own question. Yes there is a place for lots of long term prescriptions to prevent cardiovascular disease, i.e your statins and anti-hypertensives, but in general just leading a heathy lifestyle and keeping a healthy weight is much more attenable.

But with that said some disease like Familial hypercholesterolemia run in some families and no diet can prevent elevated LDLs. In this case and you will need likely lifelong statin therapy. It runs in my family as well. But yes, the population is getting fatter and unhealthier and this too causes more and more medicines to be prescribed.

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I get $0 from writing medications for patients

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You get paid to see patients correct? If a patient is on a script that requires you to rewrite the script every 30/60/90 days, whatever, you absolutely get paid by putting them on a script. If you send them out without it, they aren’t coming back

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I'm afraid we're going to see the pendulum swing too far in an overcorrection

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This is what I kept telling people that were hardcore covidians/people on the left. Life is a pendulum, and it's gonna swing back just as hard as you swung it to begin with.

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You get paid to see patients correct? If a patient is on a script that requires you to rewrite the script every 30/60/90 days, whatever, you absolutely get paid by putting them on a script. If you send them out without it, they aren’t coming back

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Yea I get paid to see patients and manage their conditions. I get paid for educating patients, discussing labs, doing all my injections that I do, etc. Writing meds is part of being of physician.

If they don't take the meds I recommend isn't that their issue?

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Got put on one and it wrecked me. Don't wanna take that shite ever again. What's a guy like me to do in that instance? Is it statin or fricked?

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Likely you got Atorvastatin or Lipitor, which is the best for lowering LDL levels, but also highest chance of side effects. In that scenario, I would try Rosuvastatin as a secondary choice. It has less of a side effect profile.

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It's arguing with a brick wall

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He’ll be here in a little bit to tell you that is what he is built like.

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The result is a ton of previously normal people being unable to trust experts on significant things,

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That ain't it and it ain't close...the result is a bunch of fricking idiots are convinced that everything is a conspiracy against them and the truth comes from social media. They are idiots and social media gives them a voice. If one is taking advice from social media one is a fricking idiot. If one is basing important decisions on social media one is a fricking idiot. If one is confused by shite on social media and thinks it might actually be real, that there is the remotest chance, that there are actually UFOs and drones from Chine or wherever the frick about to enslave us all to the lizard people then one is an idiot. It is really that frick simple. Is science always right? Not fricking close. Does science often have an agenda? Almost always. Is it less likely to be right or pushing an agenda than fricking Twitter????? It is a guranteed certainty. And it is truly that simple.


Get off social media unless you know without any doubt it is all bullshite. Turn off the fricking TV, again unless you know its all about selling pecker pills, investment scams, soft drinks and insurance. Go for a walk. Volunteer to help someone in need. Learn to pick a guitar. Write down your life story for your kids and their kids....get the frick out of your own head and stop worrying about shite that is unlikely to happen and you have no control over if it does. All of a sudden drug companies and doctors won't have any role in your life at all.

We live in the safest period mankind has ever enjoyed. We have a commodity that all but a miniscule number of humans have ever had and that is a secure safe source of drinking water. We have the collected wisdom of the entirety of our race at our fingertips. We have unlimited choices when it comes to diversions, food is a nuisance only in its so damned difficult to decide what we are going to eat instead of where the frick it is going to come from. we live in warmth in winter and chilled environments in summer, most of us do not perform any physical activity to earn our keep and even those who do have advanced technology which makes their jobs relatively effortless.

We actually have it so good that we know, deep in our DNA, that it is not normal....man has NEVER lived as well as most on the planet live today...and it absolutely is not sustainable nor likely to end any time soon....and the only knowledge that matters is this....when it does end, and it will, there ain't a fricking thing 99.9% of us on the planet at the time can do about it....why people get so wrought up over shite they can't control is beyond me......