Type 2 diabetes is not a real disease


(David) #1

(bulkbiker) #2

caused by arseholes like him recommending the Eatwell plate and refusing to support ketogenic diets…


#3

His attitude takes fat-shaming to a whole new low. Many (perhaps even most) doctors share his view, though. Peter Attia mentioned in a TED talk how he used to have great contempt for diabetics. I’m sure all of us have been to doctors who treated us as less than human.


(Michael Wallace Ellwood) #4

Perhaps not so much personally (since I tend to avoid them if at all possible), but I was recently reminded of one shocking thing recounted to me by someone I have known for over 50 years, and whom I have no reason to doubt. He exercised his right (for a very specific reason) to get access to all of his medical records. He was shocked to find in there some remarks about his person by a doctor whom before he’d had every respect for, using appallingly un-pc language. Of course, the remarks had been written in the days when the doctor had no reason to believe that they’d ever be seen by the patient. But times change.

Presumably nowadays doctors (in the UK) are more careful in what they write. (Although I have heard that they use “code phrases” recognised only by fellow members of their profession.


(Jake P) #5

I audit doctors reports for a living, I have read hundreds of thousands of op reports and office visits and have never come across this. Maybe the U.K. Is different. some conversations need to be very frank, it is documented as such. I can see how that can come across as rude if some people were to read it… Truth hurts and all.


(Michael Wallace Ellwood) #6

Terminology differs between countries, so I don’t know what is meant by a “doctor’s report”.

I am talking about the normally confidential records that all doctors keep about every consultation with a patient. I am talking about General Practitioners (G.P.s) - what we once called family doctors - still appropriate because family members all tend to use the same doctor’s practice. Practices in the UK used to be small, but now tend to be large partnerships, and records are necessarily shared between all partners in the practice and this is easy now with computerised records (although even now, the oldest records may still be on paper. My records with my GP’s practice must go back to about 1961, not that there can be much there)

You mean things like: “Frankly Mr Smith, your’e an alcoholic, and you have to do something about it!” - are you thinking something like that?

Well, it was nothing like that. It wasn’t a report of a conversation. it was a note in the records, written in the 3rd person, describing the doctor’s very subjective opinion of the patient concerned in what would now be regarded as unacceptable language.

Even at the time it was written (possibly in the 1980s…can’t remember now) I think it would have raised eyebrows.

And it seemed to have no basis in medical fact.


(Jacquie) #7

I worked in a tertiary care outpatient setting and our Drs. - pediatric and adult rheumatologists and orthopedic surgeons, dictated chart notes and referral letters with the patient present. My own family Dr. will dictate referral letters with me present. He tells me what he’s writing in my chart while I’m there and I get copies of anything I want, no problem. I think most Drs. nowadays are aware of the implications of what they write/dictate regarding their patients.


#8

“The chances of developing type 2 diabetes are greatly exacerbated by being overweight and many sufferers are able to reverse the condition by dieting alone”

Um… not my current understanding. The same thing that makes you overweight causes T2D.


(Michael Critchfield) #9

It is an illness for sure, it kills people. Totally preventable for most of us.


#10

Here’s what the genius doctor advises:

"Speaking about watching television he said: 'Always keep the remote control far away from you. Always stand during advertisements on one leg. Never sit down for the weather."

Problem solved! No more diabetes! Crisis averted. Just throw away your TV remote control, and stand on one leg. Wow…that was easy!


(David) #11

That’s my understanding too, that being overweight is a symptom, not a cause, of diabetes.


(David) #12

We could probably cure drink-related problems like this too. Stand one one leg while drinking, the decreased stability while increasing unsteadiness through alcohol means you topple over spilling your drink, meaning you drink less.


#13