One of medical practitioners' patient compliance problems is you've built an aura around your profession as miracle workers with magic bullets. And while someti

One of medical practitioners' patient compliance problems is you've built an aura around your profession as miracle workers with magic bullets. And while sometimes you swing and hit a grand slam, more often than not you hit the ball foul. Which is okay, as long as you keep working with the patient to find a solution to their complaint. Slow and steady usually wins the race, but magic bullets pay better. Look at the rebellion that doctor started in New York, with his youtube videos about how futile and absurd it was to ventilate lucid/non-distressed SARS-CoV-2 patients, solely on the basis of their oxygen saturation meter readings. Later reports from the front line said 'hey we're doing much better not ventilating our COVID-19 patients even when their oxygen saturations are super-low...' > and even then, a large percentage who reject it outright (e.g. the number of people who reject that calories are the primary determinant of weight). /methinks it is simplistic and wrong to decree that a calorie is a calorie. My working hypothesis is that bad medical advice is the primary etiological factor behind most cases of morbid obesity. Decades ago the medical industry decreed saturated fats as the cause of heart disease, and advocated fat-free diets, or low-saturated-fat diets failing that. Butter has been vindicated of the charges against it, but I have yet to see an official apology for giving bad advice. Indeed, the heart profiteers are still [1] flogging a dead horse [2]. My retired-MD uncle recently came to visit, and shared that he now makes his own salad dressing to avoid the cheap oils in commercial salad dressings. He had some great stories of patients he'd helped (trauma from car accidents and knifings), but also of exercises in medical futility (e.g. cancer). Why doesn't conventional medicine warn patients of the hazards of cheap oils? Now is the perfect time. You could refer to Wikipedia's article on Prostaglandins [0], and speculate that minority America's overconsumption of Omega-6 oils is one factor in their susceptibility to the SARS-CoV-2 (emotional stress is another factor). [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostaglandin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostaglandin [1] https://www.heart.org/en/news/2018/05/01/advisory-replacing-saturated-fat-with-healthier-fat-could-lower-cardiovascular-risks https://www.heart.org/en/news/2018/05/01/advisory-replacing-... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flogging_a_dead_horse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flogging_a_dead_horse