I just retired after 40 years an Anesthesiologist. By the time I retired, I was only using 2 drugs I was trained with.....I started in internal medicine and I still read IM and try to stay reasonably caught up to guide my care and the my wife's care. I was a "corporate doctor" until COVID. I thought most drug companies did right by their…
I just retired after 40 years an Anesthesiologist. By the time I retired, I was only using 2 drugs I was trained with.....I started in internal medicine and I still read IM and try to stay reasonably caught up to guide my care and the my wife's care. I was a "corporate doctor" until COVID. I thought most drug companies did right by their patients even if they were profit driven. I thought the NIH had our best interests in mind. I thought the American Dietary Association was looking out for us. COVID changed ALL of the that . I don't reflexively distrust everyone in medicine but they don't get my automatic trust anymore. I question everything and I am now advising, when asked by younger friends, to think long and hard before taking their kids to the pediatrician and vaccinating according the CDC schedule and for sure not to vaccine with more than one vaccine on one day with a week between vaccines. I also now question how and what we are teaching our medical students. We need to be highlighting functional medicine and then allopathic/osteopathic medicine only when that fails.
I am glad James, that your mind has been opened by the COVID experience. Many people, I have learned, did not learn from it. But you did. I appreciate having you on Team Skeptic.
I just retired after 40 years an Anesthesiologist. By the time I retired, I was only using 2 drugs I was trained with.....I started in internal medicine and I still read IM and try to stay reasonably caught up to guide my care and the my wife's care. I was a "corporate doctor" until COVID. I thought most drug companies did right by their patients even if they were profit driven. I thought the NIH had our best interests in mind. I thought the American Dietary Association was looking out for us. COVID changed ALL of the that . I don't reflexively distrust everyone in medicine but they don't get my automatic trust anymore. I question everything and I am now advising, when asked by younger friends, to think long and hard before taking their kids to the pediatrician and vaccinating according the CDC schedule and for sure not to vaccine with more than one vaccine on one day with a week between vaccines. I also now question how and what we are teaching our medical students. We need to be highlighting functional medicine and then allopathic/osteopathic medicine only when that fails.
I am glad James, that your mind has been opened by the COVID experience. Many people, I have learned, did not learn from it. But you did. I appreciate having you on Team Skeptic.