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There's this narrative pushed by alt-health that doctors are just pill pushers who don't ever offer up lifestyle treatments to solve issues, just throw pills at patients and go Even if that were 100% true, which I don't think that it is—let's think this through. People don't take their pills as it is! Adherence rates for chronic conditions like diabetes and hypertension, both addressable with lifestyle change, are typically between 50% and 60%. And we believe, then, that patients who cannot handle this BURDEN of A PILL are going to reorient their lives to eat better, workout, spend more money on healthy food? And maintain that for the long term? I resent the doctor blaming I see over on X and from health influencers. Doctors are still a frontline for health information and interventions and those looking to change bigger systems shouldn't make them an enemy

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Kinda think it blew up because of the Atlantic article… food colorings ugh. Tbh I was critical of their panel choices for the hearings on the hill. It’s a broken system, yet there are plenty of doctors making positive contributions. I’ve always thought it weird that barbers and hairdressers often know a whole lot more about most folks loves than a 1x year PCP. Problem being a big shortage of physicians. Too much casting discussions as black and white instead of gradients.

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I think most of the time people go to the doctor here when they are in need of pills, likely cause of easy availability of otc meds and higher baseline health. It would help if the doctors in the US were personable and acted like they cared which has been the biggest difference I’ve noticed compared to where I’m from

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People always look for who to blame Same way patients expect physiotherapists to perform some magic when they come but never listen to us and make sure they do their home programmed which is like the most important part Cus what you do everyday is what heals you, not the once in a while/few minutes of treatment we offer as health professionals

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i don’t get, are they seeing themselves as better alternatives as compared to actual doctors?

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I’ll have to suggest lifestyle changes to the next person with appendicitis I see

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I’d wager it’s the expense that makes people skip meds more than being lazy. I say as I smoke with hypertension, oblivious of the irony.

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Agreed. With any field there is a spectrum of good to bad practitioners. I think the main thing broken in medicine today is the incentive alignment between doctors and pharma companies rather than doctors and the health of their patients. Would be nice if doctors had better incentives for effectively motivating their patients to "reorient their lives to eat better, workout, spend more money on healthy food? And maintain that for the long term". That is a hard problem worthy of incentivizing more.

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Even as a physical therapist, exercises are our 'pills' for patients, you'd regularly see patients come to the clinic thinking just that one hour session will heal their condition and it's a constant thing for us to re-educate then on these exercises as important as 'pills' given to they by the doctors. Because even the polls we know they aren't up to date with especially diabetic and hypertensive patients

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