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Post 2 about fatness and medicine - and how similar diagnosis/treatment these days is like tech support

January 2nd, 2008 1 Comment

The other point I wanted to make about fat/fit/health/medicine is that we have now achieved the status, in U.S. medicine at least, of turning medicine into a technical support interaction. In this kind of interaction, because it is statistically sensible to do so, (wherein 95% - 99% of all complainants can have their health concerns addressed, as a technical issue, by a set number of very well understood - if not characterized - procedures), everyone gets treated as if:

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