Bad Medicine: A cure for type 2 diabetes

摘要

I don’t believe in: Santa, the Easter Bunny, that Pepsi tastes better than Coke, and that social media improves life, #getareallife. But I do believe that overdiagnosis and overtreatment are destroying billions of people’s lives. Antidepressants have marginal benefits and are grossly overprescribed; happiness is not in the gift of medication or medicine. Likewise, chronic pain is complex and often psychologically based, and the use of opioids and gabapentinoids does not work; it creates dependence and steals lives.The ‘science’ behind common treatments for risk factors like osteoporosis, hypertension, and cholesterol is grossly flawed. Less medicine is better medicine. I get tired of …