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Originally Posted by mikeod
To me, your view of a treatment plan is too narrow. When a patient enters a clinic for help with an existing problem, they want that problem to go away. An effective treatment plan, for that patient, has to address both the underlying cause of the symptoms and the symptoms themselves. While there may be a long term benefit from alterations in lifestyle, including diet, if those recommendations do not provide near term relief of the symptoms, the patient will decide that the provider has not helped them. And they will decide to not follow the long term treatment plan, no matter how much the provider extolls the benefits.
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I never suggested it should be all about lifestyle. I'm simply trying to point out that right now it's mostly one sided in favor of medications and operations. I had hoped this issue would be addressed by the health alliance but it wasn't addressed in any significant way. It seems the health alliance was set up
by medical doctors
for medical doctors.
This is not the way to make The Villages "Americas healthiest hometown". At least it won't do it in any significant way. The way it is now, it just amounts to tinkering around the edges.