Notbob
Senior Member
While I am a strong advocate for people being proactive about their healthcare, I find it darkly humorous when individuals second guess the opinions of modern professional healthcare providers based on their own sketchy knowledge of current medical science, especially when they never bothered to ask said healthcare provider direct pertinent questions in the first place. Dunning-Kruger Effect once again.
In the general case, I don't think doctors "betrayed" anyone. Although no doubt there are exceptions, I suspect the vast majority did what they thought was best for their patients given the resources and what we knew at the time. For example, 50 years ago there was evidence that saturated fat in the diet was not good for you so they recommended reducing it. So some people began to use margarine in place of butter because butter has a lot of sat fat but margarine doesn't. What we didn't know at that time was that the trans fat in margarine is even worse when it comes to your blood cholesterol profile. After much research we know that now and docs tell us to reduce/eliminate both sat and trans fat.
When it comes to betrayal, that is, the knowing intent to deceive via an established trust, it's not the doctors we should look to, it's the corporations. For example, 60 years ago the tobacco companies had research that their products gave people cancer and heart disease but they chose to hide that information from the public. And when the data came out in the 1960s, they did everything in their power to discredit it. Quite literally, millions of people have suffered and died prematurely just so that these corporations could continue making a tidy profit.
If that's not betrayal, I don't know what is.
In the general case, I don't think doctors "betrayed" anyone. Although no doubt there are exceptions, I suspect the vast majority did what they thought was best for their patients given the resources and what we knew at the time. For example, 50 years ago there was evidence that saturated fat in the diet was not good for you so they recommended reducing it. So some people began to use margarine in place of butter because butter has a lot of sat fat but margarine doesn't. What we didn't know at that time was that the trans fat in margarine is even worse when it comes to your blood cholesterol profile. After much research we know that now and docs tell us to reduce/eliminate both sat and trans fat.
When it comes to betrayal, that is, the knowing intent to deceive via an established trust, it's not the doctors we should look to, it's the corporations. For example, 60 years ago the tobacco companies had research that their products gave people cancer and heart disease but they chose to hide that information from the public. And when the data came out in the 1960s, they did everything in their power to discredit it. Quite literally, millions of people have suffered and died prematurely just so that these corporations could continue making a tidy profit.
If that's not betrayal, I don't know what is.