By aspiring to be a health “coach” or some other legally unprotected title, self-styled wellness gurus can obviate expertise, codes of ethics, legal standards of practice, and overall accountability to patient care.
@jonathanstea @markroseman However, why are people seeking help outside the medical model? If you think it's just a sales pitch or misinformation, you're not listening.
@redfishsalmon @jonathanstea @markroseman Ppl r desperate for a cure, so alternatives sound plausible. Nothing wrong ppl helping themselves, but not when they reject established medicine & practices & embrace treatments lacking research supporting their choices over what medical professionals advocate.
@redfishsalmon @jonathanstea @markroseman Foolishness. Period. Demonize profits but ignore billions it takes to develop life saving meds and billions lost on failures. Sure incurable is scary, chemo, surgeries are awful but it's the best we have. Faith in nonsense isn't a true alternative. It's exploiting false hope
@redfishsalmon @jonathanstea @markroseman Moving outside the medical model killed Steve Jobs. So it is a sales pitch. A deadly one.
@redfishsalmon @jonathanstea @markroseman Desperation.