Can You REALLY Be Smarter Than Your Doctor?

The subtitle of my Undoctored book is "How Health Care Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor."

Is that true? Can you REALLY become smarter than your doctor?

Yes, I believe you can, at least in selected areas in which you choose to focus. The Information Age has leveled the informational playing field, providing YOU with the same information available to any doctor.

You also have the power of drawing from collective wisdom and collaboration through online interactions, the ability to identify reliable sources to help you manage information, and even the ability to personally test many health concepts.

The result: Health that is often SUPERIOR to the kind of health the doctor helps you achieve.

We are entering a new age in which the individual has astounding power over health--but don't count on the doctor or healthcare system to tell you this.

We draw from the health information of the world, collaborate, share experiences, collect data, and show how to apply new health tools to achieve levels of health that you may have thought unattainable. We do all this at a time when conventional healthcare costs have become crippling.

The result: personal health that is SUPERIOR to that obtained through conventional means.

[seanhunt]

Yes. You definately can. Especially my psychiatrist he did not know about a side effect of a medication I was on I had to show him a bunch of scientific papers on the subject before he begrudgingly conceded that I was right.

[nopepper]

I want to know how to use the glucose meter to manage my "no grains" (low carb, and honestly, not entirely sugar-free) diet and gain weight instead of losing weight

[nopepper]

Also because of their practice.... they will know more than the average person, but that doesn't give them the right to think the patient has no wisdom to contribute to their health care

[CelineNoyce]

I am sorry but yes... you can be smarter than your doctor. I am a lawyer by trade and I would never say someone couldn't lawyer better than any lawyer out there... because it is about motivation. I used to not be able to doctor myself but now, I can get blood tests without a doctor order. Every year I have a list of tests I get that my doctors REFUSE to run. Thyroid, Inflammation markers, IGF-1, Vitamin D, GGT, all of these simple tests my doctors refuse to run -- lets be real -- because they know it will shed light on my actual health -- at a cheap price. I have an excel document and I put in the values... now I know what my white blood count should be and what is abnormal. Most of the illness in the world today is CAUSED by doctors and drugs. Just stay away and also, don't take drugs if you can help it.

[seanhunt]

Doctors will be replaced with AI over the next 10 years. Quality of medical care is already declining while cost is rising. AI cost is declining while effectiveness is increasing as soon as the lines cross the days of the auto doc begin.