I’m a full 180 on this position. I love going to the doctor because who knows if something could be wrong, and if I don’t go to the doctor it might never get spotted or fixed.
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This is why I go. I go to make sure I'm good, but I'm nervous the entire time there.
The problem is that (like modern economists) a huge % of what they believe is backwards. They are just as likely to say something needs to be done that will fuck you up as fix you.
Never accept their first diagnosis, always spend time reading yourself.
After doctor recommendations made all of my problems worse. Eating red meat + salt, solved my gut issues, made me leaner, lowered my blood pressure, & just generally improved my health. If they don't know something so basic, they basically know nothing.
In any discipline the basics are the key to everything else.
I've always been a fan of knowing what's best for my body and taking care of myself, however that mentality has changed a bit with my open heart surgery last year when I had a valve replaced (birth defect). Now it's hard to know what my normal is to gauge anything. If I have a heart palpitation or a high heart rate, or just feel off, I freak out.
Finding the right doctor and building a relationship with them is also very important. Mine has been taking care of everyone in my family for a few decades now, starting with my maternal grandparents. He doesn’t push “solutions” on us for problems that don’t exist. When I told him I was trying out carnivore last year, he was 100% ok with it since all my markers were perfectly normal. If something is ever off, he works with us to find something that will work for us individually, instead of prescribing a one-size fits all solution to everyone.
Unfortunately most doctors today don’t care to spend the time working with individuals like that. They find a problem, prescribe a quick fix usually in pill form, and send you on your merry way hoping it works for you, with little input on what the patient actually wants or doesn’t want.