Poor soychick and the horrible doctor!
Wow, I count myself lucky that even though I've never had a doctor who was actually vegetarian or vegan, they've all been totally respectful...and reasonable well-informed about nutrition.
Not poor soychick, who tells her story of the doctor from hell in this post. So, her doctor did what mine recently did...ran more tests that she had run before, because i mentioned I was vegan. Yup, they gotta test out that iron and B vitamins etc. etc., just to make sure they can rub your face in it if your results come back deficient.
And, as you may know, mine did come back deficient in one area: Vitamin D. Now, my doctor made sure to tell me that half her patients have that, not just veg*n ones. So, I didn't come away with a single lecture.
Poor soychick's doctor finishes telling her that everything looks normal...and then tells her she should eat a steak. For reals.
You have to read the whole story, sounds totally infuriating. You can bet I'd get a new doctor. Pronto.
has that happened to you?
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I go to the doctor next to never because of the whole self-employment/high deductible issue, but I managed to find a doctor here who's a (raw) vegan herself. (And I swear she looks at least a decade younger than she is.)
The only dietary advice she's ever given me is to eat more raw meals and eat more nuts (the latter in response to my concerns about needing to gain weight), and although the wait to see her is always super-long, she plays vegan documentaries in the waiting room. And that makes me smile. I can only imagine how much good she's done; she gets run-of-the-mill SAD patients and in at least some cases completely changes, for the better, the way they eat and live.
Last time I was there, a couple in their sixties perhaps was in the waiting room with their elderly mother, who has Parkinson's among whatever else, and they went on for 10 minutes about how much of a change they'd seen in her once they switched to this doctor, about how dramatically she was benefiting from a holistic approach and changes in diet versus how other doctors had been treating her. Awesome.
It's going to be a sad day for St. Louis when she retires.
Oops. This got long. Sorry.
Poor soychick - it's quite scary that we trust our health and our lives to people who so obviously don't know what they're talking about.