A wise medical doctor explained this to me: He said that when a patient comes to his office, they are coming to seek out his help. His education and knowledge doesn't encompass all the different foods and supplements on the market. Patients can go to health food stores and to other sources for free for that information. He said that if he were to charge a patient for telling them to go home and eat helathy, take a good multipvitamin and excercise, they'd accusme him of theft or at best , being a snake oil salesman. He was correct! A doctor can tell his patients to stop smoking, eat right, exercise and even help them by giving them aides to help them. But this is all information that we actually know and that we can reinforce for free almost anywhere. A medical doctor should be accessed only AFTER we have exhausted other alternatives unless it is something of serious proportions, like a lump in the breast. To expect medical doctors to also be alternative medicine doctors or nutritionists is wrong. Criticizing them because they are not all things health related is ignorance on our part. They go to school for many years and then intern, and they still only receive a short course on pharmacology. Your pharmacist is a good source for detailed information on medicine. And any pharmacist will tell you that there is no way to know all things about all drugs, have you seen a PDR (Physician's Desk Reference)" Yet, many expect their doctors to know everything about everything medically related.
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