The sicker I get, the more I realIze that most doctors are charlatans

Cool story Bro.......

I heard this story more than 6 decades ago and it's true.

A guy went to a doctor, said he was dumb and needed pills to get smart. The doctor gave him a bottle of pills, told him to take 1 each morning and come back in a month. The guy went back in a month and said the pills didn't do anything, so the doctor gave him bigger pills and told him to take 3 pills every morning.

The guy went back in a month and said he still wasn't smart, and the pills weren't helping at all. The doctor gave him extremely large tablets in a large container, told him to take 3 before each meal and come back in a month.

A month later the man stormed into the doctor's office and said "Hey these pills aren't doing anything, they make me sick, and they taste like horse shit! You're a quack, and I'm not going to do anything you say from now on!" The doctor looked at him with great enthusiasm and said, "Now you're smart!"

Society is an insane asylum wrote:

I'm not saying that I believe in any form of alternative medicine, but the unfortunate reality is that most doctors do not have the skills they are supposed to have. To the point that I am no longer willing to see one or take the advice one because I assume most doctors are going to misdiagnose my condition and precribe a treatment that will be unhelpful and harmful and that the harms will not be disclosed and I'll have to find out about them the hard wa. all the schooling they do is a farce. It matters nothing how long you stay in school if you don't have the intelligence to be good at something, the information taught in school is wrong, or your only motivaton is to impress others and optic don't have any actual interest in the field.

Sure. Next time your appendix ruptures or your mom has breast cancer, make sure you voice this opinion to your surgeon.

Society is an insane asylum wrote:

I'm not saying that I believe in any form of alternative medicine, but the unfortunate reality is that most doctors do not have the skills they are supposed to have. To the point that I am no longer willing to see one or take the advice one because I assume most doctors are going to misdiagnose my condition and precribe a treatment that will be unhelpful and harmful and that the harms will not be disclosed and I'll have to find out about them the hard wa. all the schooling they do is a farce. It matters nothing how long you stay in school if you don't have the intelligence to be good at something, the information taught in school is wrong, or your only motivaton is to impress others and optic don't have any actual interest in the field.

There's really nothing wrong with you except that you have Generalized Anxiety Disorder. Get treatment for it. Likely SSRI's will help you.

Mmmmkay. wrote:

Sure. Next time your appendix ruptures or your mom has breast cancer, make sure you voice this opinion to your surgeon.

Appendectomies have been done for 300 years, so that's not a very high level of medical achievement, and my mom died of breast cancer, so thanks for nothing.

Kramerica wrote:

There's really nothing wrong with you except that you have Generalized Anxiety Disorder. Get treatment for it. Likely SSRI's will help you.

SSRIs have been proven no more effective than placebo. Yet most doctors take them as a panacea

The next time a doctor says my mom has breast cancer, why should I believe them? Here is the smoking gun:

Notice the part in the LA Times article where it says:

This is blatant corruption between the US Sugar Association and US medical researchers which has give millions of Americans totally false medicine and nutritional advice for 50 years--through their doctors.

It's not just that doctors are indoctrinated and not up to date on the latest medical research--that research may be totally corrupt. DON'T TRUST THEM unless there's no alternative like appendicitis or gall bladder.

Mmmmkay. wrote:

Next time your appendix ruptures or your mom has breast cancer, make sure you voice this opinion to your surgeon.

Take better care of your body, eat a cleansing diet, take herbal cleansing tablets, do body cleansings, take enemas, eat healthy food and you will never have to worry about appendix issues. The appendix is a vital part of the body, and should NOT be removed.

Medical breast cancer treatment is brutal and barbaric, leading at the minimum to disfigurement, and too often to death.

Much better is to rid the body and environment of pesticides, eat healthy organic non gmo food, get rid of all medications, and stop going to idiot doctors who don't know anything better than to screw up your life for their personal profits, while making jokes about the terrible things they do to you.

Hypochondriac

Sounds like you have a wicked case of vaginitis.

Much better alternatives wrote:

Mmmmkay. wrote:

Next time your appendix ruptures or your mom has breast cancer, make sure you voice this opinion to your surgeon.

Take better care of your body, eat a cleansing diet, take herbal cleansing tablets, do body cleansings, take enemas, eat healthy food and you will never have to worry about appendix issues. The appendix is a vital part of the body, and should NOT be removed.

Medical breast cancer treatment is brutal and barbaric, leading at the minimum to disfigurement, and too often to death.

Much better is to rid the body and environment of pesticides, eat healthy organic non gmo food, get rid of all medications, and stop going to idiot doctors who don't know anything better than to screw up your life for their personal profits, while making jokes about the terrible things they do to you.

Shouldn't be removed? Huh? You die from a ruptured appendix. Herbal cleanses and enemas have nothing to do with preventing appendicitis. What is wrong with you, man?

Btw, sorry about losing your mom, dude. I lost mine from breast cancer as well, so I know how you feel. She ignored all the signs, and by the time she had it looked at, it had traveled to her brain and her leg bone. There was nothing that could be done. My grandmother had the same thing, which makes the situation even worse. Just getting her mammograms and finding it early, and she could be watching my kids grow up. Ugh. Miss her every day.

Look it's a wrote:

Hypochondriac

This. OP is probably the guy who shows up at the emergency department 100 times per year complaining that his earlobes feel fuzzy or something and then gets pissed that the doctors are too dumb to figure out his nonexistent problem.

In China, you pay the doctor when you are well, instead of when you are sick. But Big Pharma (US, $$$) obviously wants you unwell and paying for medications.

Doctors are literally just practitioners of medicine. If your problem can't be solved by medicine, how do you expect them to help?

I agree that there is a problem though. There needs to be some of updated form of doctor that has generic high level knowledge of medicine and alternative/herbal. But we probably won't get there until bots are programmed with degrees.

To be fair though, doctors cured people before Obama. As soon as Obamacare passed, they started to let people be sick and die.

What do you call someone who graduates last from med school?

Society is an insane asylum wrote:

Kramerica wrote:

There's really nothing wrong with you except that you have Generalized Anxiety Disorder. Get treatment for it. Likely SSRI's will help you.

SSRIs have been proven no more effective than placebo. Yet most doctors take them as a panacea

Also wrote:

What do you call someone who graduates last from med school?

A follower of a philosophy that advocates treatment of symptoms rather than elimination of the underlying causes of the symptoms, someone whose profession is profit-driven, and someone who will see the attractive pharma reps ahead of a waiting room full of very sick people. But since that's a mouthful, most folks just call them doctors.

In my experience, they are able to help if the health issue is blatantly obvious. If you go in with warts on your feet, they should be able to see and properly diagnosis the condition and hopefully treat it.

On the other hand, if the health condition isn't straightforward and requires any sort of investigate work, I've found physicians to be utterly useless. They are mostly pill poppers. At the end of the day, they are still getting paid hundreds of thousands of $ so there is no real incentive for them to give a shit. The industry is moving away from fee for service (no accountability) to value based health (some accountability), so hopefully this improves the quality of care that patients receive.