“I have argued for years that we do not have a health care system in America. We have a disease-management system - one that depends on ruinously expensive drugs and surgeries that treat health conditions after they manifest rather than giving our citizens simple diet, lifestyle and therapeutic tools to keep them healthy.”
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Clearly, America's dysfunctional food culture must bear some of the blame for our excess pounds, but it's likely our walking-averse lifestyles contribute as well.
Most American diets, even bad ones, provide more than enough calcium for bone health, especially for men.
Human beings have survived for millennia because most of us make good decisions about our health most of the time.
By keeping my hand in that, it's the way I keep learning. The main way you learn in medicine is by practicing and working with patients.