Doctors are good at trauma. I have no problem with doctors for that. I'm glad they are around.
Medicine, nutrition, anything chemical or physiological, most are idiots. It's a combination of poor training (I know what they teach in medical school) and what motivates many to become doctors. Some do independent learning and become great. Most are just instruments of Big Pharma.
That is a system that is going to need a major overhaul post GA.
i’m not in primary care, but my med school did not teach anything about nutrition beyond where vitamins fit into biochemistry. not sure where they would have found time… and honestly it’s a waste depending on what you go into.
honestly it’s a waste depending on what you go into.
This is exactly my point.
I'm a cell biologist and biomedical engineering researcher. There is nothing more important to health (not counting fixing trauma from violence) than cell biology and chemical physiology.
Our bodies are nothing more than biochemical machines. That is all we are.
Cells are biochemical machines. Tissues are biochemical machines. Organisms are biochemical machines. All three levels of scope need to be studied from that perspective to even begin to grasp human health, disease, and treatment. It should be the primary focus of every medical degree imo.
The fact that is is not even considered important, but rather that that necessary knowledge is relegated to Big Pharma to let doctors know what to think is the entire fraud in the system.
I don't disagree with anything you said, and maybe the curriculum has been overhauled in the past 20 years. To be fair to my basic science instructors, how does a PhD with no clinical experience bridge that gap?
Perhaps to ease your mind, my clinical experience was dotted with moments of revelation where those random bits of memorized information became relevant to the care of human beings. I'm certain I'm not alone in this...
Regardless, beyond radiation biology and the elimination pathways of a few contrast agents, most of what we're talking about is not useful in my day-to-day work.
Doctors are good at trauma. I have no problem with doctors for that. I'm glad they are around.
Medicine, nutrition, anything chemical or physiological, most are idiots. It's a combination of poor training (I know what they teach in medical school) and what motivates many to become doctors. Some do independent learning and become great. Most are just instruments of Big Pharma.
That is a system that is going to need a major overhaul post GA.
i’m not in primary care, but my med school did not teach anything about nutrition beyond where vitamins fit into biochemistry. not sure where they would have found time… and honestly it’s a waste depending on what you go into.
This is exactly my point.
I'm a cell biologist and biomedical engineering researcher. There is nothing more important to health (not counting fixing trauma from violence) than cell biology and chemical physiology.
Our bodies are nothing more than biochemical machines. That is all we are.
Cells are biochemical machines. Tissues are biochemical machines. Organisms are biochemical machines. All three levels of scope need to be studied from that perspective to even begin to grasp human health, disease, and treatment. It should be the primary focus of every medical degree imo.
The fact that is is not even considered important, but rather that that necessary knowledge is relegated to Big Pharma to let doctors know what to think is the entire fraud in the system.
I don't disagree with anything you said, and maybe the curriculum has been overhauled in the past 20 years. To be fair to my basic science instructors, how does a PhD with no clinical experience bridge that gap?
Perhaps to ease your mind, my clinical experience was dotted with moments of revelation where those random bits of memorized information became relevant to the care of human beings. I'm certain I'm not alone in this...
Regardless, beyond radiation biology and the elimination pathways of a few contrast agents, most of what we're talking about is not useful in my day-to-day work.