My doctor is based and pretty funny. He makes about 50k extra a year on the side from pharma, but he doesn't recommend or suggest their drugs at all, he's very anti-medication unless it is absolutely required. I met him because I was having some heart issues and I went to my ex-doctor and he wanted to start me on all kinds of pills, so I got a second opinion. A friend of mine suggested my current doc and I went in to talk to him. When I pulled in the parking lot I saw a dude in scrubs getting out of a 70s Chevy truck that was beat to hell and assumed he was a nurse. Nope, he was my new doctor. He looked at my EKGs and ran some tests and told me I didn't need drugs, I needed to walk 10,000 steps a day and stop drinking too much booze and fried shit. So, I did. I dropped 25lbs and cleaned up my diet and within four months my heart was back to college-level strength and I had no issues.
My doctor is based and pretty funny. He makes about 50k extra a year on the side from pharma, but he doesn't recommend or suggest their drugs at all, he's very anti-medication unless it is absolutely required. I met him because I was having some heart issues and I went to my ex-doctor and he wanted to start me on all kinds of pills, so I got a second opinion. A friend of mine suggested my current doc and I went in to talk to him. When I pulled in the parking lot I saw a dude in scrubs getting out of a 70s Chevy truck that was beat to hell and assumed he was a nurse. Nope, he was my new doctor. He looked at my EKGs and ran some tests and told me I didn't need drugs, I needed to walk 10,000 steps a day and stop drinking too much booze and fried shit. So, I did. I dropped 25lbs and cleaned up my diet and within four months my heart was back to college-level strength and I had no issues.
He's playing Big Pharma to his advantage. My old doctor used to hand out meds for free because he got them from Big Pharm as samples for free.
My Dads doctor did the same thing. Literally gave him his full supply of inhalers every month as a big bag of samples, saved us a lot of money.
Love it!!