>>12251243I am a doctor and I hate when people romanticize this profession, specially when doing shit like in that pic. Doctors don't save lives, the patient already comes fucked, you can only tell him how to salvage some of the potentially lost life but it's all up to him.
For example. In the chart in OP, although we know it's heavily misinterpreted, you see Heart disease as the leading cause of death, could easily be preventable if the patient gave a shit about what they eat. Everyone will inevitably die of cancer upon the absence of any other threat, and still the biggest cancers, lung, bladder, cervix and breast, are all largely preventable. Respiratory disease is in most cases hospital mismanagement from people who come from a generally preventable cause, get a complication and thing goes down.
Accident is 100% the patient's fault. Stroke, preventable. Alzheimers is another biological dead end. Diabetes is largely preventable. Influenza and pneumonia are preventable to a degree, Kidney disease can't be saved but survivavility can be increased if the patient didn't chug water and eat salted shit all the time. Suicide is 100% preventable.
