re: Medicine Isn't A Science. Practice of the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease

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Fantasic watch and damn entertaining as well.

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Oh that’s why “no proof” won’t answer any questions explaining how he thinks people become ill, or how these contagions are actually contracted and transmitted. He’d have to admit that he thinks “bioresonance communication” is a thing and that we actually get sick from our cycles syncing up when we are near other sick people. Or something like that…

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You can prove your physics. Thousands of times. Repeatedly. In experiments.

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No we can’t. Prove gravity. Not that a dropped object falls, but WHY it falls. We can’t prove that. Science advances when a theory can be used to repeatedly predict the right results. There are many such things that can’t be proved, but we use them every day in engineering to build the things YOU confidently use and that make your life pleasant.

You are shown to be a hypocrite when you log onto TD to read this thread. The technology that produces the internet and, your computer, are built on unproved theories. The entire infrastructure is built on electrons moving about, but do we can’t prove what is the source of the charge of an electron any more than we can prove the source of gravity. Yet you use the internet, and you reach for that light switch at night, just as you travel across bridges secure in the belief that the science you doubt will cause the bridge to do its job.

I expanded on the post above, to which you responded (FYI).

Scientists have done these experiments to show the extremely faint attraction, between small objects. But all they show is that the force exists; we still only guess at why.

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It absolutely sucks for managing /preventing chronic illness within a fee for service model

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Yikes!

Quoting the CDC for anything at this point is a damn dicey precept. That organization has zero credibility until proven otherwise.

But I'm curious. Could you define "absolutely sucks" in F4S compared with the socialist-communist systems you feel don't suck.

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Look up…

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Look up where?

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Not going to play the relative game.

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Smart choice. But you included the fee-for-service premise, indicating causation.

Let's address the predicate though. How would you suggest the system improve so as to not "suck"

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The focus and incentives for delivering preventative care are virtually nonexistent (in fee for services model)

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Ah, I missed this part.
Fee-for-service income is determined by fees allocated per service. That determination is largely made by CMS, NOT by the free market. It's why an internist can perform several H&Ps and be reimbursed the same as a Heart Surgeon performing a 6-hr CABG.

It's also why veterinary fees for herniated disk dog surgery (which actually are market driven), approach reimbursement levels for a neurosurgeon performing disk surgery on a human.

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Therefore it's not on the doctor. Free people will do what they want in a society of abundance.

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Quite the pickle indeed

Teaching restraint in a world of non-stop abundance is not easy (and an example of evolutionary mismatch)

Doctors first and foremost are teachers. There are some trying to leverage technology and SM to influence others (teaching them constructs for healthy lifestyle).

One of the infographics above is from the American College of lifestyle medicine. This is an entity within allopathic medicine trying to do just that…

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I’m positive frickstick.

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Is that like covid positive? Anyway, I'm sorry you're frickstick positive. Sounds bad.

There are a litany of MDs who post here. Nearly none "push the clotshot".