“I’m sure a fair percentage will end up on the drugs, anyway, but maybe there are more people like you out there who will try what I tell them,” he said.”

Glad this doctor told his patient this.

Doctors typically have many patients who refuse to lose weight or take care of themselves. No wonder they push pills.

It is your responsibility to Google whatever prescriptions your doctor gives you BEFORE you get them filled. That is what we do.

Take charge of your health and don’t blame your doc.

He is pharma’s bitch and they can put him out of business with little effort.

The truth is, doctors are trained to prescribe medications and they are lobbied to do so regularly by drug manufacturers’ representatives. They’re so thoroughly indoctrinated in this approach that they do not consider a given drug’s side effects and often do not even know what they are.

I had an ER doctor prescribe a drug for what he thought was IBS (it actually was an early flare-up of acute appendicitis). Since I’ve had enough drug side effects to last me for the rest of my life, thank you, I now look up EVERY prescription and OTC nostrum before taking it. This one, as it developed, was specifically contraindicated, in large letters, for women with the type of IBS the believed I had.

This was after I asked him what the side effects were. He sat there and looked the drug up on his iPad and then told me, with a straight face, that it had no side effects (this was wrong) and was perfectly safe for me to take.

IMO, doctors should always start with the least invasive methods, such as diet,exercise & weight loss, and schedule a follow up visit to see if it’s working. They should emphasize the lifelong benefits of healthy living, as opposed to the downsides of taking medication. But in reality, that’s a lot more time consuming for the doctor & the patient. It’s simpler for both if the doctor just writes a prescription & the patient just pops a pill!