Aaron E. Carroll, MD, MS is a Professor of Pediatrics and Associate Dean for Research Mentoring at Indiana University School of Medicine. He is also the director of the Center for Health Policy and Professionalism Research. He earned a BA in chemistry from Amherst College, an MD from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and an MS in health services from the University of Washington, where he was also a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar.
Impressive. Does the report mention why he went after this so called myth? Does it mention what he states is wrong with hydrating with water? Does it mention the destruction of American health and health care?
I read it, and I didn’t see any of that. Per usual we non physicians are too stupid to be allowed to follow logic
Our medical system has been destroyed. In two years, after the new president takes over, he had better be able to fix it in some manner, because what I see out there is a lot of extremely uninformed people who will be glad to follow along and blame political entities for it and the republicans, having just wrested the controls away from the idiotic, selfish, destructive democrats, are going to be standing likely deer in the headlights, as usual, and with no plan, taking all the blame
What I see are people hooked on medical care, surgery, pharmaceuticals, government funding, affordable, reasonable insurance plans, bad processed foods, thriving fast food establishments on every corner, obesity, pharmaceutical drug dependency and alcoholism.
Very few people are outside walking around, fixing things, playing driveway basketball, riding bikes
And very few people are enrolling in medical school for what I imagine are very good reasons
This doctor could look at any one of those issues plus the autism epidemic, the negative effects of birth control pills, including that it is in the same carcinogenic category as tobacco use
But he, like most doctors, even those on all kinds of boards with certifications up the yin yang, fail to look at anything outside their lets prove it world or let’s disprove it
We could use this attitude in our need to stop global warming theory from being accepted as fact
But this doctor studied the effects of drinking water with a hypothesis to disprove a 60 year old policy taken during a time when Wally and The Beav were out playing hoops and delivering papers and their mother prepared every meal and took care of illnesses by prevention and early detection and care, and paid for medical care out of pocket.
The doctor is likely finding that there is way less money for research than ever imagined and is wasting his time on this silliness
And I say schadenfreude as it was doctors in their common lack of administrative skills which first led to a widespread failure of Medicare to remain solvent, back in the early 1980s through widespread fraud waste and abuse and the utter failure to give up on it even through and now beyond obamacare and the destruction it will bring
Part of what IS coming is wise people practicing real preventive medicine, which used to be accepted normal daily life and knowledge of basic cures and treatments
Of course the AMA could renounce its support of abortion and get back into good fortune with the grace of God but I don’t see that happening any time soon.
Until then, doctors have to live with the remnants of a medical system they created that thrives on people being sick and living the unhealthy lifestyle
He would do well to go check out a local high end gym and see what capitalism is doing to react to the disaster our socialized medical system has created