Overall, do you trust doctors and/or medical industry personnel, with health / nutrition advice?

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DISCLAIMER: I am talking solely about nutrition and fitness, not chronic / serious conditions

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Some people fully trust doctors when it comes to their health and fully take their advice / recommendations seriously when it comes to fitness / nutrition.

Other people think of doctors as over-paid pharmaceutical salespeople, and overall don't trust their advice / recommendations when it comes to health / nutrition.

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When you consider the fact that there is plenty of viable (and bogus) Internet information about health / nutrition / fitness (articles, blogs, forums, etc.), this question definitely gets a lot more interesting

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Please vote on the poll and elaborate as much as you like. Thanks for your input. 8-)

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

I don't trust doctors who give me prescriptions to help me out whem I am sick, the only one I trust is my mom, even if she was a past nurse, she still knows a lot about medication. My past doctors would give me strong medicines to fight off an infection in my body that wasn't even severe, so my mom never gave them to me and I actually rarely got sick. I think most doctors want to have "their moment of glory" but thinking they have to give out medication that isn't really needed, they don't use their common sense. Nutrition, I have never asked about because I know common sense and the food pyramid. I know what is healthy.

emzy-89 · Accepted Answer

I trust the medical people in my family and a couple outside my family but there are a lot I don't trust, especially in nursing homes, you wouldn't believe how often the sedate their patients just because they don't want to deal with them. It's disgusting!

animalwithin · Accepted Answer

I'm studying to be a doctor right now and let me tell you, I don't trust many, if not the majority, of people in the medial field. I know many doctors that are just in it for the money, many doctors that will immediately suggest drugs for their patients without a second thought, many doctors that just don't care, and are not willing to put their heart and soul into helping a patient recover. Unfortunately, I think its going to get worse as the requirements that medical schools place on applicants elimantes many people that have the potential to be great doctors.

lucky24 · Accepted Answer

I don't trust medical people

the reason being each doc has their own opinion on what's best

id rather read credible sources online (usually .edu or .gov websites which talk about research on things like BCAA proteins or SAA protein chains that has been done and what the research found during their clinical trails)

not to mention you know your own body better than anyone else

you should be able to judge what's best for you after reading articles about diet/nutrition/working out

december1990 · Answer

Actually I'm not sure. I do usually trust medical people especially if they are skilled and confident but there's A LOT of bad doctors out there to lol who don't have a clue what they're saying or doing. I'm sure MOST do since they've had YEARRRRSSS of schooling but.. some I wouldn't trust so fastl ol

lananoel · Answer

Most of them are in the medical field to suck up my money. Chasing money is the American way no one really cares anymore. I take advice spare and spotty according to what makes the most sense. I DO NOT follow fads nor believe the unfamiliar. I may not be a whiz kid, but I do my research before I gobble up every word a doctor says.

heytherebuddy · Answer

I do trust medical people, just not always because anyone could simply make a mistake. My aunt and uncle are doctors and I trust them a little bit more because they know more about me than my doctor. It doesn't mean that they're always right. Everyone makes mistakes, but you just have to trust your instincts too! :)

Anonymous · Answer

I trust medical people to an extent. There's a running joke in my family that medical people don't know anything since when I was a baby I had a stroke and they told me I was deaf. Then they said I would be mentally retarded and unable to care for myself. And then one time I fell as a toddler and knocked my two front teeth up into my mouth and they said they'd never come down. They did. I'm not retarded, and I'm not deaf. So... that's where the joke comes from lol. But they're pretty good now :)

rachel05 · Answer

overall yes.. but there are sometimes I won't do what they say to do.. usually my mom helps me on that decision when that happens.

shyguy89 · Answer

first of all love the picture:). my thing with all things in this world is I don't belive anybody or anything until I experience it first hand not even my own family.lol its better that way.

aMuse · Answer

The nurse practitioner in my doctors office has a masters of science in dietetics. She is a fully qualified nutritionist. So yes, I trust her when discussing nutrition information.

ManaX · Answer

Humans can make mistakes, miss things/not take something into account. But anyone would be foolish not to trust an expert in their field.

Aizou · Answer

I trust myself and friends who tried stuff that actually worked.. doctors can keep their  hands off my money

raptor · Answer

I absolutely trust medical professionals, provided that they have appropriate and respectable credentials.

Anonymous · Answer

I tend to trust them. I haven't had a reason not to.

Anonymous · Answer

Yes, because usually it involves common sense and hard work.

Anonymous · Answer

I voted a. Yes people can make mistakes but a trained professional has a better chance at saving a life then I do.

souka · Answer

not always

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