The profit based health system

[WoodyAllen]

It took more than 80,000 hours of training for me to become a cardiologist. How much of that time was spent on nutrition? Zero.

My waiting room was full of patients whose numbers I had made perfect but who still looked sick and felt terrible. Some even felt worse with all the drugs I had put them on

Children as young as 10, according to the guidelines, can be started on statin medications....

Physicians even get paid more when a drug is prescribed. A medical encounter that generates a prescription is considered more complex, which qualifies for higher reimbursement.

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/01/08/health/cardiologist-statin-cholesterol-mission/index.html

 

[Bazza20]

Yeah. My doc eventually got me off any tablets I was on but that doesn’t fit the narrative.