
What is the job of a doctor?
This idea that doctors shun anything that isn’t drugs or surgery is a straw man. Doctors are in the business of giving reliable, proven advice to their patients. Of course that includes things like exercise, preventative care, proper nutrition and stress relief. Yes, there is even room in modern medicine for things like meditation, and positive thinking, so long as we don”t start assigning to them magical powers and overhype their benefits. Modalities must be proven to work under strictly-controlled laboratory conditions. If your treatment-of-choice can’t pass muster, it’s because it doesn”t work. It”s not because “Big Pharma” is conspiring to keep supplement X or method Y off the shelves and out of doctor’s offices.