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I think we are sort of in the worst of both worlds right now re: medicines/supplements/gray market. FDA approval is expensive slow process. Doctors train for
by steveBK123 7mo ago
I think we are sort of in the worst of both worlds right now re: medicines/supplements/gray market.
FDA approval is expensive slow process. Doctors train for a long time and then work 40+ years entire careers, some without a ton of continuing education.
But then we have an entire gray market because enough legal and practical loopholes to drive a freight train through, such that people are self medicating with dubious substances of dubious origin of dubious purity sourced via dubious means.
Even if peptides work, you have no idea what side effects they have, or if the ones you are taking are even real, not contaminated/tainted in some manner, etc. Given a lot of the hype comes from social media for otherwise healthy people to take them for lifestyle / augmentation reasons.. to me the risks still outweigh the rewards.
Real solutions like regulatory reforms to find ways to bring down testing costs seem more important than reforms to make it easier to slap anything on the shelf at GNC as a completely untested “supplement”.
- throwaway2037 7mo ago> some without a ton of continuing education. Where did you get this idea? I did a simple, five second Google search and learned that on average, US doctors are required to complete about 50 hours of continuing education for each one- to two-year recert cycle. (On HN, I also hear similar complaints about public school teachers. It isn't true. Public school teachers are required to do similar continuing education.)
- aduwah 7mo agoNot US, but the seminars to fill in the hours in my country were closer to legal bribes and/or holidays in often exotic places. They usually were provided/funded by the medicine lobby.
- ottonormal 7mo agoIn Germany, at least for Dentists, it is exactly like this. Many training events are, in fact, hardly any different from sales events.
- throwaway2037 7mo agoI am curious. Is dentistry considered poor in Germany? Or when compared to other similarly wealthy, highly-developed nations?
- ottonormal 7mo ago[dead]
- kjkjadksj 7mo agoSame in US only sometimes more banal. Signup sheet in front of the stacks of pizza at some research talk at the medical school. Back row entirely asleep. Talk had nothing to do with medical practice but the researcher holds an md phd. Might be talking about their work in yeast.
- ses1984 7mo agoNeither teachers nor administrators take continuing education seriously, in my local experience.
- dmschulman 7mo agoTaking continuing education credits to check a box for retaining professional licensure and educating yourself about emerging and novel concepts in your field are two vastly different things. If anything, CE helps professionals update their knowledge base regarding existing processes and procedures.
- steveBK123 7mo agoMandate vs interest. Compare how seriously many SWEs take mandatory HR/compliance trainings vs hanging out on HN, taking online courses, arguing about code, trying new frameworks, coding in spare time, etc.