A few thoughts, which are worth the price of yesterday's coffee you left in the pot.
= Medscape gives me gas pains, especially since it's geared for med professionals. Medscape is run by WebMD. I refer to WebMD as "the People magazine of medical information." There's too much info there that's watered down to either useless or misleading. Medscape can be just as bad *for doctors*. I am on a small number of Medscape mailing lists [that I never signed up for and that's another red flag] and they often make my head hurt. Do you want to take a quiz about your knowledge of rectal cancer that was created by an ophthalmologist? Medscape is right up your alley!
- I don't know why there aren't bio-ethics people screaming loudly about how "Fat people = $$$" has become a major part of medicine. They used to have giant events to come up with ways to get more fat people having WL surgery. Part of that, as I know you know, was the AMA convincing itself [despite it's own committee saying not to] that ob*sity is a disease. Before that they had posters and ads for FenPhen. BMI got extra popular when charts were given to doctor's offices and pharmacies with Orlistat. The GLP-1 drugs are the new cash cow for doctors and the pharm companies alike. 20 yrs from now it'll be something new and just as scary, unless medicine gets off this unethical rollercoaster.
- Semi-off-topic, but I was thinking about the study Pfizer (? I think) put out claiming that GLP-1 drugs protect the heart. I've read *about* it but I haven't yet read it myself. Nevertheless, something strikes me odd about it.
At the point they all started marketing the GLP-1 drugs for weight loss, they had 7 years of data on its use for diabetes. If it was protecting the hearts of diabetic patients, it should have shown up in that data. THAT would have been groundbreaking, as it would have been a counter-point to LOOK AHEAD, the 20-year-long study that ended after only 10 years because they weren't getting the results they predicted -- that making people with T2DM lose weight would reduce death by cardiovascular events. In reality, both the WL group and the control group died at the same rate.
So why the magic *now* about it protecting hearts? I smell rodentia. (or Wumpus.)
I FEEEL the pain of these medical types trying to redefine “so fat it’s gonna kill ya” especially hard right now because I was looking through notes from the hospital visits I’ve has the past few years (the only times I get weighed any more) and the notes described my body in terms such as “super morbid o-word” and “beyond morbid o-word.” I’m expecting them to call me “galaxy-devouring black-hole level o-word” next time. Sometimes you just gotta laugh even when they’re doing stuff that kills people. >:-(
I want to be stop being shocked at the mendaciousness of “ob*sity medicine.” I am SO ANGRY!! The constant solemn unctuously earnest experts righteously grifting again and again… why am I ever caught off guard?
A few thoughts, which are worth the price of yesterday's coffee you left in the pot.
= Medscape gives me gas pains, especially since it's geared for med professionals. Medscape is run by WebMD. I refer to WebMD as "the People magazine of medical information." There's too much info there that's watered down to either useless or misleading. Medscape can be just as bad *for doctors*. I am on a small number of Medscape mailing lists [that I never signed up for and that's another red flag] and they often make my head hurt. Do you want to take a quiz about your knowledge of rectal cancer that was created by an ophthalmologist? Medscape is right up your alley!
- I don't know why there aren't bio-ethics people screaming loudly about how "Fat people = $$$" has become a major part of medicine. They used to have giant events to come up with ways to get more fat people having WL surgery. Part of that, as I know you know, was the AMA convincing itself [despite it's own committee saying not to] that ob*sity is a disease. Before that they had posters and ads for FenPhen. BMI got extra popular when charts were given to doctor's offices and pharmacies with Orlistat. The GLP-1 drugs are the new cash cow for doctors and the pharm companies alike. 20 yrs from now it'll be something new and just as scary, unless medicine gets off this unethical rollercoaster.
- Semi-off-topic, but I was thinking about the study Pfizer (? I think) put out claiming that GLP-1 drugs protect the heart. I've read *about* it but I haven't yet read it myself. Nevertheless, something strikes me odd about it.
At the point they all started marketing the GLP-1 drugs for weight loss, they had 7 years of data on its use for diabetes. If it was protecting the hearts of diabetic patients, it should have shown up in that data. THAT would have been groundbreaking, as it would have been a counter-point to LOOK AHEAD, the 20-year-long study that ended after only 10 years because they weren't getting the results they predicted -- that making people with T2DM lose weight would reduce death by cardiovascular events. In reality, both the WL group and the control group died at the same rate.
So why the magic *now* about it protecting hearts? I smell rodentia. (or Wumpus.)
I FEEEL the pain of these medical types trying to redefine “so fat it’s gonna kill ya” especially hard right now because I was looking through notes from the hospital visits I’ve has the past few years (the only times I get weighed any more) and the notes described my body in terms such as “super morbid o-word” and “beyond morbid o-word.” I’m expecting them to call me “galaxy-devouring black-hole level o-word” next time. Sometimes you just gotta laugh even when they’re doing stuff that kills people. >:-(
I want to be stop being shocked at the mendaciousness of “ob*sity medicine.” I am SO ANGRY!! The constant solemn unctuously earnest experts righteously grifting again and again… why am I ever caught off guard?