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Diet-related diseases are the No. 1 cause of death in the US – yet many doctors receive little to no nutrition education in med school
  • As a GP, I wholeheartedly agree. I have a minor in nutrition before studying medicine. I try to talk to my patients and they brush me off. My clinic has a dietitian, and they NEVER want a meeting with her. The only exception has been pregnant women.

    I still do agree some more teaching could be helpful, but it's likely only helpful in POST-graduate training, like, family medicine. Future surgeons, for instance, aren't likely to need depth on nutrition, and the degree is already very loaded without much room to trim.

  • I was the poster girl for OCD. Then I began to question everything I’d been told about mental illness
  • I'm glad you took the time to respond, even if I'm not sure how many dive into these comments.

    I agree completely with you. I read the article and thought, I really don't think anyone in healthcare really truly thinks the diagnoses are simple illnesses with an organic cause anymore. But the frameworks are helpful to direct what treatment options we have/as guidelines.

    I find patients themselves want a name for what they're experiencing, even if it is an approximation of what's going on with them.

    But at the end of the day, it's no surprise people are depressed, anxious, etc when there are so many fundamentally broken things in the world.

  • Sticking with GPs. Are we allowed to ask about more than one issue during our slot?
  • You're right that it's frustrating, but it's a no win situation (I'm a GP myself, btw).

    • There aren't enough GPs, there just aren't, so time is scarce. All the surgeries are overloaded.
    • each issue NEEDS time. People feel very confident of what they need sometimes, but that isn't how medicine works. We need to assess, get the details, to give a right diagnosis and treatment
    • every extra little thing, borrowed minute, carries forward. An extra 10 minutes at every other appointment turns into hours by the end of the day - unacceptable delays for patients and the staff.
    • there is so much added paperwork for each of these things. Most of us finish our clinic at 4-5 and then still have a couple of hours of paperwork.
    • most of us are so very burnt out at this point, and appointments becoming more complicated, demands getting higher, pushes us further towards giving up.

    It isn't the patient's fault, but it is the reality. People fall through the cracks, important things gets missed, we know this and hate it too. We call it moral injury, the phenomenon of building pain because we can't actually meet people's needs or fully do what is right.

    I hope the reply is clear that this isn't push back. We wish we had more time with each patient. We wish we didn't need to reign it in, but we're already stretched too thin. We know it's frustrating. We're frustrated too

  • Question to the ones that fully left Reddit
  • The discussions were what really made Reddit, to me. I could see an article or piece of information anywhere, but Reddit often had decent commentary that helped add context and perspective.

    Wasn't perfect, of course, but in general it felt like it really added to the experience.

  • Lets talk about physics of the speed of spaceship
  • Agreed. It feels the same to me as the fighters in Star Wars Squadrons, which is familiar and comfortable.

    I can appreciate a goal of realism, but it definitely feels like a hard balancing act with fun. I mean... When I get shot in the game I don't actually die either, haha.

  • Take a seat!
  • This doesn't happen in the movie, but the joke is about a version where Anakin takes the seat that's already occupied by a hologram. It's as if he's sitting in his lap. It's just silly.

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