NYTimes.com - Do You Trust Doctors?

NYTimes.com - A growing chorus of discontent suggests that the once-revered doctor-patient relationship is on the rocks.

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[DonkeyFist]

"Lifetime health care costs for obese individuals and smokers are lower than those for healthy individuals who live years longer, according to a study Monday on the Web site of the Public Library of Science Medicine, the AP/Boston Globe reports. For the study, led by economist Pieter van Baal of the National Institute of Public Health and the Environment in the Netherlands and sponsored by the Dutch Ministry of Health...."

Go back to high school you adolescent wanker.

[theguy1322]

People who do drugs, alcohol and smoke cigarettes also hae lower life expectancies than normal that doesn't mean they have lower cost of health care. Where'd you pull your studies from out of your ass

[DonkeyFist]

Actually studies show that because fat people have much lower life expectancies than normally built people they have lower cost of health care across their lifetime.

[saywhatUneedtosay]

I'm sorry you've had bad experiences with doctors.BUT,I definately disagree with you that the average doctor is 'a moron.'Firstly doctors don't learn how to prescribe from a pharm rep,they learn it in med school.Whether they remember this info,is a different story. As for schools accepting students with 2.5 GPA,I think it's reasonable to guess that this is in isolated cases,and med schools aren't filling their classes with 2.5 GPA students,but rather giving a few students with potential,a chance

[towardtheflame]

Approximately, according to the CDC, 100,000 people die each year from infections they acquire in US hospitals. We know that about half of doctors admit they don't even bother washing their hands.

So at least ~50% of doctors don't even so much as bother to regularly wash their hands, knowing that if they don't, they might be putting patients' lives in jeopardy.

How could anyone possibly trust such disgusting people?

[towardtheflame]

The average doctor in the US is an absolute moron. What little they know about the drugs the prescribe, they learn from some idiot pharm rep with a business degree, and, predictably, that is often not accurate information.

Yes, there are a growing number of incompetent doctors. Even medical schools that should be mediocrities now have pathetically low standards. Someone with a mere 2.5 GPA, for example, can now get into the University of Iowa's medical school.

[saywhatUneedtosay]

the 'growing disconnect between doctors and patients' lies simply in the red-tape created by the profit-obsessed pharmaceutical and insurance companies.Yet it's definitely a direct result of the lack of communication between doctors and patients... lets just be realistic, its not as if there's a growing number of incompetent doctors graduating from med -school these days. If anything it's the complete opposite.

[towardtheflame]

The biggest mistake of my life was trusting doctors. An incompetent team of doctors at the University of Iowa ruined my life. They overprescribed drugs, failed to tell me about risks, lied to me about side effects--denying, for example, that one drug carries risk of leukemia, skin cancer, and lymphoma--they failed to treat side effects, they didn't tell me about my treatment options, etc. Despite all the permanent damage they caused, they didn't even close to putting my disease in remission.

[towardtheflame]

yes

[theguy1322]

Fat people should pay more taxes!!!!