Ask leading questions that prompt answers backed by knowledge, not emotion nor arrogance.

WHY?   HOW?   Why, why not?  Or more specifically, 'what caused my illness/disease?' and 'what will reverse the cause and cure me?' 

If you are not to eat organic, unrefined coconut oil ...... I wonder what your doctor might recommend?  How about margarine, which is one molecule away from being plastic, lol.  The sad truth is that most medical doctors have less knowledge in nutrition that the average person who has ever dieted.  

I would not fault any doctor for not knowing everything, rather for not deferring to a more qualified professional. 

Victoria Smith, BS.HT
www.SignficantHealing.com

Oh, the stories I could tell about the arrogant doctors I encountered in the treatment of my arthritis and diabetes. It would literally make for a small book.  They love to make you feel like you are incapable of understanding your diseases, and are insulted if you ask too many questions.  I stuck it out with them for many more years than I wanted to simply because they came highly recommended and because the search for a good doctor is so nerve-wracking.  I will never again stay with a doctor for those reasons, and the first time that any doctor gets arrogant with me, I will immediately walk out that door!  I am now doing everything that I can through dietary changes and supplements to keep myself healthy, and go to a naturopathic MD if I need to, such as when I had shingles last year.  Please stand up for yourself and don't put up with arrogant doctors.  After all, you are paying them to help you, not to stress you out with their attitude!

I recently came across a book that spends a chapter or two talking about good fats. if I remember correctly it also provides citations of where to find/verify her words. (In this case that Coconut oil and butter are good for you.) The book was "Real Food: What to eat and why" by Nina Planck

Arrogant doctors are so overwhelmingly common that I am cautious even around those who at first glance appear to be open-minded. I ask questions to get a sense of where they stand on crucial issues. Then I try a minor contradiction and see how they react. Where I live, in Japan, the patient typically has less than a minute to describe his symptoms. Then the doctor passes his judgement. If you are hoping to get certain testing done you have to know which symptoms to describe. Most prescribe you useless drugs. A few will ask if you want the useless drugs. Optimally, in any country, the patient or his loved ones should review available literature on his condition, then work with the doctor to get what is needed, though the latter part can be a real art. A book on how to get what you need from your doctor without getting used by your doctor would be helpful and probably very popular.

I had just written this page called, ”What I Think About Doctors (It may surprise you)” when I saw this so I thought this link would be appropriate to share with your readers.

Isn't that the truth! I wonder... wouldn't it benefit them, and their patients, if all M.D.s and D.O.'s had to learn more about nutrition in school? Or at least if medical schools recommend more nutrition or food science courses for premed majors. Nutrition is about nourishment for our souls. Everything we put in our bodies, as a food, actually releases a ton of hormones and sets off a series of events like no other. You may even think of food as a drug. Not a medicinal pharmaceutical product that's synthesized in a lab, but still, our first line of defense... remember, you are what you eat!

All I know is I notice a great difference when I take coconut oil as a supplement to my diet as opposed to when I forget. Although I'm sure it can be poison for some people, anything's possible... But for me... I just can't see the logic, from my own experience, in thinking that it'll do anything bad for my heart, or make me "fat." I get energized just from a table spoon. Sometimes I take it before hitting the gym because I feel so energized, but I'm aware how atp is made, and I wonder... Shouldn't I be taking something to prevent excessive oxidation before going to the gym? Anybody feel a difference using Purple Defense? All I take is NKO omega3s and a multivit/min at the moment.

I like your shirts Doc Mercola, They are happy shirts!!  :)

I understand this very well. As a child, I was sick most days. When I began to use the right food, I didn't need to listen to most doctors again (including one who recommended I should smoke cigarettes).  Eliminated ALL disease I used to have.
About seven years ago I had arthritis which a family doctor told me I would have to have surgery later, but take ibuprofen for now. From information and practice I got rid of arthritis completely. (After a physical examination the doctor didn't believe me, and still expected surgery.)
Two years ago I fell off a ladder, eight feet down to cement floor, unconscious (coma) seven weeks. Everyone expected me to be dead. But from excellent health I could recover - completely.
Doctors were good about getting a dozen bones back together, and physical therapists and massage therapists also got some nerves back to the right place. Then when I returned home I stopped the medicine, refused prescriptions, ate the right food, and got back to excellent health and strength (after a doctor reported that I would be disabled for the rest of my life).

I agree with you, Dr. Mercola!  Doctors are frequently, in my experience, ignorant of the difference diet and exercise can make in the course of illness.  I have talked to friends with MS and other chronic diseases, whose doctors never suggested that a specific diet might help the course of the disease (and give the patient a measure of control over their illness).    Often, these same medical-school trained doc's are just not aware of alternatives, nutrition issues, etc.  It is easier to reach for the Rx pad, sadly!

Cheers in Halifax,
Starchild

I sit here and marvel at what you are accomplishing, Dr. Mercola. I have personally seen diabetes reversed. For true health and freedom from the vicious cycle of arrogant doctors and unneeded drug "therapy", people should consult a holistic physician when they feel unwell, even if they are already under very traditional care.
Kristin
www.holisticwellness.com
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While I believe ER and the subsequent 5 weeks in critical care saved my son's life, the advice his physicians gave us, including "let him die", and the half dozen medications he was prescribed did nothing to help him recover from his accident.

We took Jonathan home in a "persistently vegetative" state.  That was August 2004.  Today, he is well on the way to recovery thanks to HBOT, and a superb dietary supplements.   I would like to tell you more, -please visit my son's website
www.healingwithoutmedicine.com

Thanks, Dr. Mercola, for what you do and for your advice.  You are an all too rare physician who understands health.

Frank D.

I want to thank Dr. Mercola for answering my question regarding coconut oil and my Endocrinologist.  I attempted to keep my original question brief because of the amount of mail he receives.  I hadn't mention that the doctor sent me my blood results in the mail two weeks after my yearly appointment.  Along with the lab report, he included a perscription for Metformin and Zocar with hand scribbled directions on a POST IT NOTE.  My levels were not extremely high and I had not been eating and exercising properly.  Without filling the perscriptions, I got myself back on track, dropped the 10 pounds that had creeped up on me and everything has returned to normal.  On the lab report, my Triglyceride level was 61.  I am in the process of locating a doctor who is more interested in working with me. I had not mentioned in my original question to Dr. Mercola about the perscriptions sent in the mail and he suggested the possibility in his response

I just get so angry that healthcare has sunken this low in this country.

The vast majority of doctors don't give a hoot about their patients anymore.

The MD profession has become the equivalent of a commodity business where cutting costs by mass producing the unaltered product (i.e., the diagnosis and treatment) has become the rule.

IOW, MDs no longer think out of the box. Nor do they keep up with literature. Nor are they even interested in learning the truth about diagnosis and treatment.  They operate on an assembly line.  Every patient gets treated according to some majority rule and often these rules are outdated, politically motivated, economically driven or simply based on ignorance as the diabetes II case by Mercole clearly demonstrates.

It is so upsetting to me that most MDs no longer care about their patients and apparantly enter this profession out of sheer economical interest and associated social status.

Thank you Dr. Mercola for sticking your head out.

Michael