> "A doctor's job is to keep you alive and to a lesser extent, healthy. They are not in the fitness businesses but they sure know that fit people have less heal

> "A doctor's job is to keep you alive and to a lesser extent, healthy. They are not in the fitness businesses but they sure know that fit people have less health problems. Problems that they ultimately get stuck treating." But doctors don't get "stuck" treating health issues! On the contrary, that's how they get paid! Doctors' jobs, unfortunately, have perverse compensation structures which disincentivize their helping patients reach maximum healthiness. They get paid to keep you alive, yes. But they get paid much more if you remain in a state of imperfect health -- and thus remain a patient, requiring paid treatment -- than if you happily stay fit and only visit for routine checkups. Some cultures (eg the proverbial village doctor in some parts of Asia) resolved this conflict of interest by having members of the community pay the doctor only while they're healthy, but pay nothing when faced with illness. Interesting to think what such a model might look like in modern western civ.