I Agree, The World Would Be A

Transparency And Detail Are Everything In Science.

There Are Many Differences Between Medicine And Teaching, But They Have Much In Common. Both Involve Craft And Personal Expertise, Learned Through Experience; But Both Can Be Informed By The Experience Of Others.

In The Past, [medicalization]has Been Portrayed As Something That Doctors Inflict On A Passive And Un-suspecting World - An Expansion Of The Medical Empire. But In Reality, It Seems That These Reductionist Bio-medical Stories Can Appeal To Us All, Because Complex Problems Often Have Depressingly-complex Causes, And The Solutions Can Be Taxing, And Unsatisfactory.

I Agree, The World Would Be A Better Place If Doctors Were Less Enthusiastic About Adopting Very New Drugs.

If I Was Writing A Lifestyle Book It Would Have The Same Advice On Every Page, And You’d Know It All Already. Eat Lots Of Fruit And Vegetables, And Live Your Whole Life In Every Way As Well As You Can: Exercise Regularly As Part Of Your Daily Routine, Avoid Obesity, Don’t Drink Too Much, Don’t Smoke, And Don’t Get Distracted From The Real, Basic, Simple Causes Of Ill Health. But As We Will See, Even These Things Are Hard To Do On Your Own, And In Reality Require Wholesale Social And Political Changes.