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@@youtuber7186 If it is just table salt, why does it need any testing? I would assume the answer is "because it's not literally just table salt" but you haven't said that. You've just mocked someone for saying something you disagree with and not elaborated.
If a doctor ever said “I don’t want to bore you” when I am trying to understand what they are trying to do to treat me, that would be an immediate red flag that I am at a very bad doctor.
They can convey what they are doing to treat you without going into extreme medical and biological detail that most patients don’t understand and usually just end up more confused and anxious than before they asked. Or god forbid a doctor having to deal with a “I’m sorry but Gwyneth Paltrow said…” scenario. You as a patient might be in a minority of patients (like me) who is fairly literate in medical terminology and physiology and does like and can understand the extremely elaborate explanations. That is not most people. For a vast majority of people, it’d be much worse to go into more detail rather than keeping it short, concise and simple.
I saw my doctor just the other day and she started explaining some medical concepts to me then stopped and said something like "Wait, I probably should've asked before I started with the nerd talk And I was so happy to ask her to keep going. Yes, I very much would like to know exactly what my condition is and exactly what the cause is and how I can best treat it. Thank you for respecting me enough not to treat me like an idiot.
@@jotave49 Oh so you are unemployed or in education? Otherwise we pay a decent amount for "social services" in countries with public healthcare. Notice it's public healthcare, not free healthcare.
@@jotave49 You will pay for it the rest of you life, alot more than it would have cost. Nothing in life is free. You are just misled into thinking it was "free".
My mom had a recent emerge visit after a bad fall (mobility issues) and turned out she wasn’t always just falling, but fainting from low sodium… they sent here home with “eat more salt” and she has been great ever since. It really is that simple lmao
No it's not. That's why athletes have Gatorade and Pocari sweat instead of just salt water. There are many different salts and minerals lost that need to be replaced.
@@yoongs3878 When it's only sodium that is low and not the other electrolytes, then yes, it really is that simple: consume more sodium. If the other electrolytes, such as magnesium, calcium, and potassium, are low, as well, which was not mentioned in this video, those will need to be replenished, too. If all the electrolytes are low, the patient may be over-hydrated, and restricting water intake may be warranted. It becomes more complicated in that case, and more blood parameters need to be considered, such as hematocrit, but this was not the case in this video (the patient was only low in sodium). If an underlying cause of low electrolytes is determined, such as in athletes who are frequently sweating out electrolytes, then that is also an easy fix: consume more sodium and other electrolytes. Gatorade is not a great choice, by the way, but there are some other options, such as the electrolyte supplement LMNT.
My cardiologist (we worked together and were close friends) used to salt my food before I ate it. People were always shocked and didn’t know what to say.
I would donate blood on a semi-regular basis for many years, but with the Pandemic I stopped donating for two years. We’ll, my hemoglobin was getting rather high so I asked my doctor what the treatment is. He said “wellll, a bloodletting” ! I told him about my long pause of donating so he said I should do a donation and see him again. Problem solved.
That probably happens because you aren’t supposed to have your blood sucked out of you and placed into other people. It’s unnatural and your body doesn’t like it.
The best doctors are the ones who recognize that their patients are adult human beings and not toddlers to talk down to. I have low sodium, the rural doctor of the southern town I had just moved too told me to keep chips in my car because it'd be cheaper than anything he'd prescribe.
This is true but on the other hand, a lot of adults (most) are fucking stupid when it comes to modern sciences. They can teach you taxes, mechanics, maybe even anatomy etc. but they don't get a certain portion it seems.
And none of them will know anything the last one did. So you have to keep track of the labs ordered yourself so you can tell the next one what's already in the lab being processed
In real life you blow up like a balloon retaining water. Per blood it effects your breathing. Your at high risk of heart attack. My mum is in hospital right now with this. Then they do the bare minimum and let the the person die. That’s how the nhs is doing it right now. She’s been there nearly 3 weeks
With POTS literally the treatment is to increase sodium intake so if I start feeling faint I will literally just do what I call a shot of straight salt and it helps everytime. I've decided to save myself the ER trip and just inhale pure salt instead of dealing with incompetent medical professionals, which vast majority of my doctors have been for chronic illness at least.
After years of passing out and being dizzy, the dr kept sending me home like I was crazy. My child’s pediatrician noticed I was off and suggested a salty snack when I feel like that. It works! When I have a really bad episode, I’ll sleep with a salt shaker so I can get out of bed. My dr just wants to put me on an antidepressant.
@citrus4971 you’re right, it does… my primary says, let’s not self diagnose and try antidepressant’s first. Also, I’m not pregnant, just to rule out immaculate conception…
hi i literally have the same issue and salt helps me the same way. please see some other doctors for pots. you can try antidepressants but depression doesn’t make you dizzy and salt doesn’t fix depression symptoms. most primary care doctors do not know anything abt pots. you usually need a referral to someone else. unfortunately i haven’t made that step bc im “too young”
@@ticcitoasty that’s good advice. I’d rather not be on antidepressants and you’re right, that’s probably not the problem. Dr’s seem to turn to mental problems if they don’t know what’s going on. I also had been told in my 20’s and 30’s that I was “young and healthy….” Which is kinda true but writing off young women isn’t fair. I’m in my 40’s now and now my primary writes everything off as peri menopause.
I was told that I "couldn't have dislocated my knee cause I wasn't screaming and crying" then it turns out my knee was dislocated. Interesting medical criteria for that diagnosis.
@@ThePokeMusicLover one time I was in hysterics cause (as it turns out) I had an obstructed kidney stone. I didn’t know that at the time but I couldn’t walk I could hardly breathe cause of the agony. The emergency room I went to declared I was faking it and drug seeking and kicked me out. I had to go to another ER to be taken seriously. The next day I was in surgery. So that doesn’t always work either.
@@swagmassa6702 they report you to collections and it hits your credit report. Yeah you have to pay medical debt or it destroys your credit. My girlfriend is still fighting with the credit bureaus about a collections that is showing up from years ago that was paid.
Increasing sodium is the only thing that helps me and my 2 kids. Tried midodrine for a couple of years with no change. Started drinking drip drop or liquid iv and carrying salt tablets on us and now we manage just fine.
My grandma had low sodium when she went into the nursing home. This was also around the time she stopped eating McDonald's. We're pretty sure it was the only thing keeping her alive
LOL what was with the older generation and McDs... My mother wanted just a McDonald's burger for her Thanksgiving dinner when she was in the hospital dying from cancer. I get it from my Dad now... How about a McDs burger ! Haaa
I saw a comment once where someone’s grandmother lived 108yrs old & her sister 120yrs old - saying that they ate what they had most of their lives & what they wanted, even if they were told it wasn’t the healthiest choice- that their attitude, activity levels, and faith is what kept them thriving. My mother just passed a few weeks ago from cancer and her last meal request was a hamburger, but didn’t touch her hamburger from the hospital cafeteria- ended eating Funyuns instead.
@@lorireed8046 McD's foods taste indulgent. They're specifically balanced to activate happy hormones for most people, which can cause one to become addicted if one eats them enough (certain ratios of salt, savoriness, fats, carbs, etc in a magical ratio). And if you're suffering, you want any comfort you can get, even if that's comfort food. Plus, lots of cancer treatments can mess up your sense of taste (terrible chemical taste in their mouths, or outright narrowing to even completely losing their sense of taste)... and/or the treatments (or cancer itself) can make you very nauseous & kill your appetite. So sufferers might end up, in the first case, overeating in a desperate attempt to satisfy their cravings but unable to find anything that will, or only wanting to eat the few foods they can still taste... or in the latter or combined case, barely eating at all & wasting away. Only feeling able to stomach very specific foods that are either very bland & gentle, or extremely appetizing, with strong enough of specific flavors to still work decently on their limited taste buds. Related: My dad lost a lot of his sense of taste when he got older, & ended up so desperate & frustrated at not being able to enjoy hardly any foods (which sucked because he suffered so many painful debilitating health conditions, & the comfort of delicious food was one of the few things keeping him going). So he ended up completely changing his meal preferences to extremely savory, salty, & spicy foods, because at least they had SOME semblance of flavor. ((And related to THAT, I'M also suffering multiple agonizing & distressing conditions, & extremely long story short, being at a constant 7-9 on the pain scale since 2001 (age 18-40), it's hard to care about anything anymore. And due to weight problems on top of that, I'm on an extremely restricted diet now, & that deprivation of one of the few things that could sometimes make me forget the pain just for a little while, that could sometimes make it feel ok to be alive... feels like it's killing me more than all the rest of my failing body systems.)) So... I get it. Let people who are suffering enjoy some dang comfort food once in a while, if they can.
"Oh, I see you have a heart arrhythmia-- No big deal, but we'd like to admit you until it's resolved. So we're putting you on a strict no sodium diet." "But-- My sodium levels are normal." "It's standard procedure." Two days later, I check out of the hospital with dangerously low levels of sodium, because even though they've been pumping me full of IV fluids, and checking my blood daily, NO ONE NOTICED. Half a bag of potato chips later, I felt much better.
Use accent on your food tastes great and might fix a possible sodium issue. But accent has potassium which might be the real issue but the hospital cannot charge you for it 😂
@@mahoganydoormadmindstories ... and you missed the point too. The human body needs sodium. If my levels are in the "good" range, restricting me from having sodium can actually be harmful to my health. Modern medicine is by rote, rather than by actually paying attention to individual patients.
@@johngelnaw1243 you also need potassium. BTW, I went through a similar issue with low levels but the doctors didn't want to tell me which one was low, sodium or potassium because if one is out of sync then both need to be fixed. Potato chips is the worse way to bring your levels back in order. Just add sea salt and accent with a little baking soda and a smidge of epsom salt to a liter of water and drink it throughout the day. Levels will balance out.
Right great video to reinforce the fact that the medical industry is one big scam. Always offering costly band-aid solution instead of teaching preventive medicine and telling patients how to prevent things and change lifestyles.
I had a patient who would get psychotic and aggressive when his sodium was low (we WERE in a psychiatric corrections facility). So we would put 3 packets of salt in some Gatorade and encouraged him to drink it. It calmed him right down. Of course they wanted ME to get him to drink it. We had a rapport. He liked me, I think because I knew he didn’t like people standing close to him so I would make the other patients back off from him in pill line. He was real quiet, but he would make eye contact and give me a nod. I mean, I knew he was a convicted murderer, NGBROI , but I figured it didn’t hurt me to give him some common courtesy. He actually stepped between me another violent patient and prevented me from getting hurt. Goes to show some common decency can save your life.
Having to wait 12 hours is so true. The last time I was in the hospital I saw a nurse right as I got in and then had to watch like 4 hallmark Christmas movies before someone else came to take care of me.
Doctors really do act like detectives sometimes, they see the most simple, straight-forward solution and think “nah, that’s what they want me to think, it’s gotta be more complicated than that”
Hey man when a malpractice lawsuit can come down on your head for it they prefer to work backwards in hopes they address more serious issues first. Which yeah, it definitely over-complicates a whole lotta shiz.
YES exactly, all of those were like the most complicated way to least for how to get a patient less salt-this whole video was so confusing to me tho lmao I have a condition that makes it necessary for me to take in more salt and I’ve never a) had anyone tell me to drink LESS water to bring my sodium level UP (you have to drink more water AND salt, your body uses one to hold onto the other by making a saline solution and if you just add more salt or more water alone it won’t mix right, probably also why you feel dehydrated even though you’re drinking that 40 oz water bottle twice a day-), or b) not recommend salt sticks and Liquid IV first, they’re cheaper for everyone lmao, but that’s just my experience ig???? yall be gettin told you shouldn’t take more salt to have more salt?????
As a medical-based SLP I encourage my patients to research Redmond real salt/ Celtic sea salt. The most nutrient-based/dense supplement that most don’t utilize or heard of. My parents have control high blood pressure any more. I need to catch up with them by the way. 😊
@@metalhd7277 I know you said some salt would fix this, but you have no credentials. We needed to ask 30 departments first and run up your tab before we gave you any sodium.
When I was recently in the hospital, my room mate had this problem. Turns out she was drinking too much water. I always wondered about people I see chugging so much water all the time. Some even are determined to drink a certain amount every, say, hour or so. Doesn't seem natural. Eat a healthy whole food, plant based diet with lots of watery vegis, soups, and drink water as you feel thirsty.
My husband had the same thing! We also have “skratch labs” it’s just a powder form that you can pour in water with way less sugar than powder aid or Gatorade.
@@dwoktheraynejonsohn4849 haha glad you enjoyed it! In that instance the doctor had left the room while the machine was running, and when she got back told me I wasn’t allowed to take it off while it was getting a reading. Refused to believe I hadn’t, until she checked again while sitting there. Poor lady was shocked, and immediately asked me if I get dizzy a lot and wrote a prescription for Iron supplements. So yeah, my blood pressure was somewhere around “there is no arm in this cuff”
Yep, before my mom's cancer killed her, she was VERY low on sodium. We managed to bring it back up safely at home with a pretty consistent routine of gatorade and soup. managed to go from 100 to 125 in a week, doc was impressed. Ultimately didn't help her though. Folks, always get second and third opinions if your oncologist says you or a loved one is "cancer free".
A professor of mine once told me "not everything is a pathology." Sometimes the answer is dead simple, and you're just making things way more complicated than they need to be by overthinking things.
Any health care system operated as a business couldn’t go towards easy inexpensive solutions first… that’d be counterproductive for their goal to make money. (I’m talking in general, not necessarily in this present scenario.)
@@ryanstarkweather3625Actually they do mean blood pressure. I'm a Phlebotomist and when our patients get blood drawn some end up fainting. It's because our blood pressure drops drastically it is a term called Vasovagal Syncope. It's pretty common during blood draws. It even happens to people that don't really have a fear of needles or blood.
I almost fainted after injections (tbf I had gotten 32 of them 😅) and my neurologist brought me a piece of birthday cake and a cup of coffee from the break room bc that's all they had 😂 So there I was, sitting on the exam table crying and eating someone's cake. The nurses were so confused (I guess bc he brought it himself and didn't tell them). Best doctor ever.
@@Nicolehubbard88or they are hypoglycemic and their blood sugar levels were to low, that's why I carry mini mars bars in my bag , they work the quickest , specially together with some orangejus
I have POTS and I randomly chug salt from my salt shaker all the time. It helps a bit Also just put salt on any random food you eat, if you're low on sodium salt somehow tastes good with every food
@@Doc_Schmidtthey don't fix people they medicate their symptoms away until they get other side effects from their medications. Which then you guess it needs to be fixed by more medications.
There is no money to be made in cures but repeat business through Me ( the doctor) dication ( dictating authority over your body in the name of science)
Yeah I saw a couple of these back then I thought the formula was going to be used here again but it was just a doctor trying to keep up with appearances sounding smart and then getting caught
Definitely tablets! As a pharmacy technician, I once popped one of these per a pharmacist’s recommendation. I spat it out amd I can confidently say that it was a VERY salty tablet…
I completely love you Doc!! Hey your the most honest Dr I have seen that doesnt have a problem laughing at all the things doctors do.😂 love your videos!
I had a doctor tell me to eat a bag of potato chips and drink a few glasses of water when I was dizzy as a teen. The best doctor cause she was so right
@@_jamm___3321 you could just...you know...look up what the term means, and yeah, if something came out of a fucking factory and wasn't intended to be put in human mouths, it's not necessarily germs I'm worried about. You don't know if the salt was contaminated with heavy metals, or if there's some synthetic binder or sealant involved, or if there's some kind of industrial tooling oil that's gonna give you the shits no matter what your imune system is, or some carcinogenic solvent involved, etc. So it's a bit less of an "eat dirt" situation and more of an "eat paint chips, they probably don't contain lead" situation. I'm really not interested in that stupidity, thank you.
@@dynamicworlds1 mettles are necessary for the body and oil is natural meaning not harmful. oh and what's that getting the shits from oil where the hell dose that logic come in because oil doesn't cause that. the "synthetic" binder is the glass itself because it hardens together. The only harmful thing about this is that you would have to break up the glass witch is sharp. So calm down and act like the adult you are.
Sometimes it is as simple as that, other times there are dangerous underlying conditions. A doctor may ignore such cases if they always resorted to the simple solution. But starting with the simple solution and monitoring to see if any issue persists/arises is also a good option
I was once instructed to increase my BP medication (for migraines) from once a day to twice a day. The very first day I took a dose in the morning, I got to work, and was walking around a building by myself, when I suddenly felt light-headed, over-heated, weak…and of course that part of the building had little to no cell signal. I had no idea what could possibly be wrong, and felt like I was going to pass out when I got outside to get back to my office. (Multi-building campus.) After I finally got back to my desk, I started going through a mental checklist of what could possibly have caused me to feel so awful…and finally put the med dose together with my tending to have low BP to begin with. Left a message with my neurologist, then got Subway for lunch with chips and Gatorade. She called back, I told her what happened and how I “treated” it with my lunch choices. I think I impressed her :) and she agreed: no more morning doses, only at bedtime!
I wish I could trust "health care professionals" but so many are caught up in their own "importance " that they are insulted when you ask a question . How come everything I took 20 years ago for the same condition is now considered bad and taken off the market but this shiny new super expensive drug is much better . Some I can understand but all of them ? Will I grow a third eye because I took them for twenty years .Blind faith is difficult and reserved for our Lord everyone else I have questions .
@@ramblingrose6967 Medicine, like many other scientific fields is very dogmatic in the sense that what a journal tells you to do, you do it. Straying from the norm is frowned upon and being seen as unconventional is grounds to lose one's position in the field. It has been this way for centuries. For example, when soap first appeared in wound treatment, it was scoffed at and spoken out against. Despite it's glaring benefit to disinfectant properties and long-term wound management. Today it is standard practice to disinfect and thoroughly clean everything before surgery. Doctors, are after all, Human. No different than you or I and sometimes worse (sometimes better); but the industry as a whole is flawed like any other. Unfortunately.
In my experience, doctors are actually always happy when I show interest, and knowledge in scientific procedures. They have so far always taken an extra minute or two if I wanted to know more
So, my grandpa was in this exact situation recently. Stoic German type, and when told to cut back on sodium, he cut out sodium from his diet completely. Which promptly resulted in his hospitalization. As a "Get Well Soon" present, I went to the local farm supply store, and bought him a sweet molasses flavored salt lick.
This is why i stick with a doctor when they say stuff like "you may just need to up your intake, try to increase by this much and we'll check back in in a week to see if things have improved." You don't want someone just brushing you off telling you to eat some chips and leaving you but you also don't want someone who refuses the simple options until last either.
This pretty much sums up healthcare for the past three years. I say that as a healthcare worker. Only they all went against what they were taught and actually believed that an experimental jab was safe and effective. I'm seriously sick and tired of trying to win the trust of patients after so many doctors have proven to be complete imbeciles.
Idk about you but if my dr is trusted and he looks at me and goes “just eat more of this and you should be fine. If your symptoms don’t get better, come back.” Imma easily not complain. That’s not brushing me off- that’s trying to see if it’s a real issue or just my poor ability to take care of myself, people might not like to realize that but that’s the truth. Most issues don’t need countless tests and over things. That said I don’t think we are really disagreeing.
@@IhiriTasogare ...and I'm denied basic tests... wohaaa... 'we don't need countless tests', you really think you live in a paradise, right!?, or maybe you're really healthy.. ask me, someone with CFS, severe one..🤨
I had this same issue. I had to go to a neurologist because my family and I were worried about an undiagnosed seizure issue. Spent the night at the ER, spinal taps, EEGs and spent 3 hours in the MRI machine only for them to not find anything, but my neurologist started me on seizure medication that solved the issue, but went to continue to go to the doctor and run tests, still nothing... Found out later that the only reason the seizure medication was helping was because the medication I was on was improving my sodium levels and helping me retain sodium. The entire issue was sodium related and the cure was potato chips! Haven't had any issues since then and living a happy, healthy life 😄
Yep….the chips have potassium & sodium. A family member of mine had seizures in her teens. She wasn’t eating that often which explains the seizures. Come to find out she suffered from low potassium and sodium most of her life and would get auroras and then seizures whenever she was low in both. She could tell when she was low in potassium because her heart rate would go from 68bpm up to 80 bpm and higher. She had to keep track daily to make sure she got close to 4,000mg of potassium and 1,500mg of sodium daily. If she didn’t keep track her levels would get super low and she would have a seizure.
It truly is more complicated than most realize. Healthcare do not have time to explain bc it is truly not simple and majority will still not understand. Look up hyponatremia in cirrhosis and look up the RAAS system. No one is trying to take your money. It’s a game of balance and it takes a while to maintain and figure out that balance.
My favorite doctor visit is when they told me my neck wasn’t broken since I was moving around. Got an X-ray, it was broken. They apologized and felt really bad 😂
I've had the opposite but with my foot, where is was so swollen, discolored, and awkward looking that the doctor immediately said they thought it was broke. I said it wasn't since I could still move it. Three x-ray sessions later, it definitely was not broken. They still put a cast on it because they didn't trust me not to walk on it.
They did the same shit to me years ago and laughed about the injury and said my neck was sprained. A few months later, I went in for a fractured wrist, doc knows I won't come back for another test and checks my neck while I'm there and sees remodeling on two of my vertebrae. He wasn't happy with the previous doctors.
Nurse checked my temp after chatting with me when I cam in. She looked it, then at me, then at it and me again and said. "how am I talking with you, you have 40,6 C 105,1F. Me "I am just happy to be home after 3 flights and 11 hours and after working with this fever for a week." She " please lay down and wait for you lung x-ray."
@@RainzoPlayz America literally covers the healthcare system of other countries by half or more. For example, we cover 50% of Canada’s care through NATO
Exactly. This is in fact what happened to my wife when they said she needed potassium. I suggested getting her that 50/50 (KCl/NaCl) "Lite Salt" you find at the grocery store for a couple of dollars, but the doctor said No, that that would be bad somehow. Eventualy they gave her potassium pills, consisting of potassium chloride (the same KCl that's in Lite Salt). The difference of course was that they could charge us thousands of dollars. I hate them..
I have had sodium level issues almost 20 years. Quickest way to check is to lick some salt. When your levels are low the salt will actually taste sweeter than it should. Saltine crackers and Gatorade work in a pinch.
That is most certainly not the best way to check your sodium levels. It's the equivalent of checking for a fever by putting your hand against someone's forehead. The better way is a thermometer (or metaphorically here, a blood test).
I walk amd run around a lot in a warehouse for work. I don't like Gatorade and when I'm getting dehydrated and losing too many salts from all the sweating I litterally put like 4 salt packets into a few oz of water. I quickly feel so much better amd over time feel even more so. And when I drink just water I actually feel hydrated again. (For those unaware, why too much salt is dehydrating, salt is an electrolyte and not having enough means your body can't actually hydrate.) People think it's gross, which I guess it is, but it works and again, I don't like Gatorade.
LITERALLY. I recently went to the ER with asthma symptoms and they kept trying to tell me it was stomach issues. I insisted it was my chest. After being there for 7 hours, bloodwork, x-ray, and ultrasounds they gave me an inhaler and I felt better immediately. Later I was officially diagnosed with asthma
For years i kept saying i still felt like i couldn't breathe even with my asthma medication. Doctors had duagnosed me with PTSD and generalized anxiety disorder but wouldn't try any meds on me. After about 25 years of not breathing well, they put me on Zoloft for other reasons and suddenly I can breathe properly (except on high anxiety days, and even then it's better than pre-Zoloft). Turns out anxiety can really mess up your ability to get a breath.
Several times I went to an ER or urgent care facility with symptoms of GERD-noted in my medical records. Apparently, myocardial infarctions have similar symptoms. So the doctors examine me and order tests necessary to diagnose heart issues before they can treat the heartburn. Once given a dose of heartburn medicine, relief is immediate. However, I am grateful the doctors assure my heart is ok before treating a much less severe condition.
They did this with my grandma's stroke. It was so obviously a stroke that you wouldn't need to have a nursing license or any other kind of medical license to spot that. Yet they're wasted hours spent ruling out UTI and other silly things. by the time they were like oh yeah she's having a stroke, a couple hours had gone by. 🤦♀️ was the same doctor that had diagnosed my mom's melanoma as ring worm.
I don’t know how prevalent of a thought it is for doctors to give lack of explanations, or don’t want to “bore” the patient with info (maybe because doctors are very busy or don’t think a patient can understand the explanation), But the doctors who made the effort for me to understand the “why” of decisions and to help me understand what is happening in a way that made me feel respected have by far been the most efficacious (I’m my experience) and impactful. Feeling like I was “on the team” was so important to me, and I think it’s part of good bedside manner
In my experience, almost no one cares about science. Also, in my experience, if you want a doctor to explain the science, just ask, and it will make their day. I'm in the process of applying for med school, so I have science qualifications needed to do that, and the number of times I have tried to explain something sciencey/medical to someone and they just didn't wanna know. It may well be different if it's coming from a doctor, but I don't know how you could get to being a doctor without having had a lifetime of trying to tell people about science/medical stuff, and them looking at you board, zoned out, and waiting for you to stop and talk about something else, so by the time you get to be a doctor, you've had it so often just assume that's how people will react that way and don't bother explaining the science behind it.
@@gracegaskell8068 There’s a difference between explaining something medical to someone that is not currently involved in that problem, and even if he is, the discussion won’t accompany the cure; and actually being there with the individual that’s gonna make you feel better, the patient is gonna listen and absorb every word even if not fully understood, the mere primitive visualisation of the mechanism of his health is the best placebo. Search new german medicine
@@gracegaskell8068 it doesn't even need to be explaining the "science" behind it, though. Like for GI problems, a doctor once prescribed me Sucralfate and Omeprazole. Ok, cool. But a patient-friendly explanation could be that the omeprazole will help lower stomach acid levels to prevent further irritation to my stomach, and the sucralfate will coat my stomach and help protect it from further damage from acid or other irritants. It doesn't step into the "why this works" but gives just enough info to help the patient understand better than "here, take this and let's see how you feel."
