Who's teaching our dietitians? Snack companies

[BrotherIvan]

7. Not surprising

Hospital nutritionists are some of the most poorly educated people I met on my sally through the MIC (medical industrial complex) with my mother. They have no idea the basic premise of food and how it works in your body. One thought that sugary jello was better for a diabetic because "it doesn't have any fat." And hospital kitchens and the food they serve is as palatable and nutrient-free as airplane food, but you are paying as much as if you were eating at the most expensive hotel in the world.

The entire medical school system has been captured. They do not understand how to heal, only how to guess after a thorough bout of testing what you may have and then prescribing medications to see what happens. The European and Asian doctors we went to were far better educated and thoughtful. The Americans were like prescription generator machines--receive input, output approved response--they could not discuss a diagnosis or even alternative options. The older American doctors were usually at least experienced and could draw on that.

Western medicine is falling very far behind on the basics. We do well for the specialties and emergency medicine, but less glamourous fields like nutrition, pain, and overall health are woefully lacking. If a corporation can't make money on it, no one cares.