At 21, a doctor told me I had PCOS and pre-diabetes and then handed me a Metformin prescription.
“This is just what you’ll have to live with,” she said.
So I did. Until I didn’t.
(Turns out eating real food and moving your body is a treatment plan. Who knew?)
But that was the first time a strange thought crossed my mind. Maybe the people who say they know how this works… don’t actually know anything about how this works.
Hmm.
Years later — after the NFL, foreign medical school, PA school, the ER, and COVID — I read The Price We Pay by Dr. Marty Makary and suddenly understood things I hadn’t been able to articulate before.
Why I’d been handed a pill instead of a lifestyle prescription.
Why my employment contract said I wasn’t allowed to tell patients that a cash-pay clinic existed across the street.
And 1000 other horrific, uncomfortably true things about medicine, and the system we call ‘health care’.
(I’m still looking for a word to describe it that doesn’t start with an F-, but haven’t foun…
