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I acknowledge that the majority of surgeons improve people’s lives and have the ability to heal. This is not my experience with physicians at all. The majority I have dealt with and it has been many having 4 children (1 with a congenital heart condition) and a large dental practice in which I am privvy to the health/rxs of my patients do not heal patients. They manage symptoms with an increasing list of medications over the years. I have many close friends who are physicians and most are miserable as their care of patients is dictated by either insurance companies, hospital health systems or corporate group practices.

Im also sick of listening to fat doctors who have little to know knowledge of nutrition who rely on their credentials for superiority all the while their patients are less healthy and on more meds.

dario 2y ago

fair enough. just gets old getting bashed from all sides when you’re doing the best you can in a demanding profession with inevitable bad outcomes. i’m sure you’re a wonderful dentist (sincerely) and do your best to counsel patients on all aspects of prevention, yet they still come with their bombed mouths for you to fix. it may baffle you that people ignore the most common sense approach, but you’re there to help with the tools available and hopefully without judgement and arrogance to cloud your ability to heal. focusing on the warped incentives (for example, taking moral hazard out of the mix by letting people choose with their own “skin in the game”) would be more constructive than leading people to think they’re seeing crooks with every appointment (especially in times of vulnerability and suffering when you’re most prone to emotional decision making). there’s bad doctors and dentists, because there are bad people, but we owe the good ones enough respect to not generalize the whole lot

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Susiebdds 2y ago

Of course there are bad dentists, but generally it is a dentist with poor handskills or poor ethics. I really don’t know of a single dentist who doesn’t advise practicing oral hygiene. Why brush when that’s kind of a hassle and we can easily fix any cavity you might get in less than an hour. This is akin to how most physicians treat nutrition with patients in my experience. They believe it’s too hard and they can prescribe life long meds so why bother?