Consult Kevin Pezzi, MD
Why should you consult me when you could obtain a second opinion from countless other doctors?
- I guarantee that I can offer helpful advice. If not, the consultation is free. Other physicians may not be able to help you, but they'll still take your money.
- I am smart. I graduated in the top 1% of my class in medical school, and the director of my residency program once commented that I was the smartest resident they ever had. One of my former bosses told me that I was the most intelligent doctor he ever met. Consider this: 50% of the doctors in the world graduated in the bottom half of their class. The knowledge gap between the best and worst doctors is probably greater than you think. Here's why.
- I read a lot — probably more than your doctor — and I cover a wide variety of subjects. The solution to your problem may lie outside of what your doctor focuses on.
- I am an outside-the-box thinker with an uncanny knack to put two and two together. I have a superb ability to integrate my knowledge and use it to solve challenging problems, whereas many doctors seem overwhelmed by the facts stuffed in their heads. Even if they know something, that information may exist as an isolated fact that they cannot link to other information necessary to diagnose and treat difficult problems.
- I believe in the importance of nutrition. Your body does not run on drugs; it runs on nutrients supplied by your diet. Drugs can help treat many diseases but they are not the sole solution to optimal health. Any doctor who belittles the important of nutrition is dangerously misinformed. Remember what I said above about doctors having difficulty integrating their knowledge? Docs who trivialize nutrition either slept through their biochemistry and physiology classes, or they are not smart enough to see the big picture. The countless biochemical reactions that medical students study don't occur just in textbooks, as dumb doctors seemingly think. Those reactions are literally the stuff of life, and all of them depend directly or indirectly on dietary nutrients. So how could nutrition not be important? Trust me, it is.
- I have a successful track record of making diagnoses that other doctors miss.
Why are drugs usually overemphasized?
Doctors generally believe whatever drug companies want them to believe. The enormously rich and powerful pharmaceutical industry influences physicians in myriad ways. Some of their brainwashing is relatively benign, such as when drug companies hire gorgeous reps (their latest hot recruits are ex-cheerleaders, believe it or not) to give freebies to doctors, such as pens, notepads, coffee mugs, penlights, books, stethoscopes, pizza, and even an occasional one-on-one date with the rep. However, other brainwashing tactics are not so harmless, such as when drug companies fund several studies and choose to publish only the ones showing the greatest efficacy for their drugs while suppressing the studies showing no benefit or even net harm. This cherry picking process makes drugs seem to be more helpful and less risky than they actually are. The truth eventually comes out in some cases, but that is the exception, not the norm. Consequently, people pay billions of dollars every year for drugs that are marginally effective. By pinning their hopes on those drugs, patients and doctors often stop looking for more effective or alternative therapies — that's the real danger. Once people think they've found a viable treatment, it is human nature to put their faith in that solution and not consider others.
Take something as common as diabetes. You might think that a disease that prevalent would be managed very well by most doctors because they are so familiar with it. However, almost every doctor fails to recommend some things that diabetics should do. The scorecard of physician advice is even worse for less common diseases. The bottom line is that doctors usually do not do everything possible to foster your health and speed your recovery from disease.