Go to the doctor and receiving the proper diagnosis is normalhoweverThere are some unprofessional people who tell lies to their patients.. A doctor from California decided to reveal these bad practices and expose the medical community, which does not always tell the truth to patients.
Dr. Robert Lufkin decided to write a book called Lies I Taught in Medical School, where he recounts these practices that doctors often perform. Divided into 10 chapters, one for a lie, Lufkin unmasked the system, however, it still belongs, despite the criticism.
The first part of the book, The author focuses on diseases related to diet and subsistence allowance. At first, he talks about the metabolic lie: “Metabolism is simply the way the body digests food”; the second talks about the obesity lie: “To lose weight, just exercise more and eat less”; and the third is the diabetes lie: “Sugar is harmless, except that it causes weight gain and tooth decay.”
Then, list some more regarding this topic, such as fatty liver lie: “There is no treatment for non-alcoholic fatty liver disease”; and concludes with the lie of hypertension: “High blood pressure is best treated with medication.”
The book of the Californian doctor who unmasks doctors
Photo:Dr. Robert Lufkin
The other five lies from doctors to patients
In the second part of his book, the doctor delves deeper more complex diseases and the lies that doctors tell their patients. For example, of the cardiovascular diseases: “Statins are a good option to prevent heart disease.”
Then name the cancer lie: “Most cancers are caused by accumulated damage to DNA”; and finally, he speaks of the Alzheimer’s lie: “Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive, untreatable disease caused by the accumulation of beta-amyloid.”
In the last two chapters, Lufkin comments on the health mintly the longevity. The first of them, the lie It is based on the fact that “metabolism has little effect on mental health; and finally, he talks about the longevity fallacy: “Aging is the inevitable result of accumulated wear and tear.”
Finally, the doctor, in dialogue with Fox Newsassured that in each chapter “we review each of those chronic diseases that determine our life expectancy, and we talk about which are the lies and which are the truths.”
