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I'm not sure what to say, exactly, except that I think you are very, very wrong if you think doctors refuse to inform patients about their options, including, but not limited to, dietary modification, alternative medicine, and so on. You might have a point if you were saying something like "Doctors are so jaded at the fat, lazy patients who refuse to take any long-term, proactive action to protect their health that they mention these things only in passing, because they know they will just be ignored, and their patient will just want the quick, fast, expensive bariatric-surgery-equivalent." But if your actual position is that a large percentage of doctors are just shysters who are keeping their patients willfully in the dark about far superior treatments for the sole purpose of fattening their wallets...I just can't agree. It is entirely opposed to all of my experience in the health care field. I know thats not a very convincing argument to you, and you most certainly don't have to take my word for it. I just don't know of any better way to convince you. I don't think a survey asking doctors "How scummy are you, 1-10?" would show much. I'm aware there are a few books out recently about doctors running scams like this, where one sends his patients to another for completely unnecessary procedures. I just think it is ludicrous to consider these types of doctors to make up any significant part of the field.

We might just have to agree to disagree on this, since I'm not sure there is anything more I can do to convince you. I do appreciate your persepective, and I think its unfortunate that your experience with the health care field has been so negative. I know there are lots (LOTS!) of problems with the U.S. healthcare system, and I know doctors are far from perfect. I hope I've given you at least a little insight into the way a soon-to-be physician feels about some of these issues.

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Do you really think that most cardiologists talk about/advocate drastic dietary modifications with their patients? I'd be surprised if many cardiologists even know how effective dietary intervention can be. Is is common knowledge among physicians that heart disease is reversible through diet?