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From: LindyBill	7/29/2012 7:43:39 AM
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I don't necessarily endorse this POV For what it's worth. This is Pharmageddon. A recent study found that over 75% of stent placements for heart disease don’t help at all to reduce heart attacks and deaths, are harmful, and unnecessarily increase health care expenditures. Yet the number of angioplasties and stent placements performed has increased, not decreased. We don’t have “evidence-based” medicine. We have “reimbursement-based” medicine. Doctors do what they get paid to do, not what the science shows they should do. That’s the bad news. The good news is that there is an extensively studied, scientifically validated set of strategies that work better, faster, and cheaper than medication and surgery and can be implemented at scale with little cost by lay people in local communities and in medical practices. Intensive lifestyle therapy, not wellness counseling or prevention, but lifestyle treatment of existing chronic disease focusing on pre-diabetes, diabetes, and heart disease has been proven to work better than medication or surgery. Currently this is not implemented in our health care delivery system or in community-based programs in any meaningful way. But it can and should be. drhyman.com