vegetarian diet diagnosed POOR?

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Did you also send this letter to his doctor? Doctors generally have one

nutrition course, I am told in med school..so what do they know about

food?..unless the doc has had someone in his family to be diagnosed wtih colon

cancer, doubtful that he will even be concerned about fiber. Too bad that

doctors just take the easy way out and pass along patients to other doctors (and

of course keep the fees on going).

 

M.A.

 

treazure noname <treazured wrote:

Well this is just spiffing. The husband person, who had a quadruple

bypass in 96, and is diabetic, just went to our doctor (a resident) for a

checkup because he is having problems breathing and another doctor at the office

said he was in Congestive Heart Failure.

 

Good news, no, he isn't in CHF. (blood test ruled out) BUT, despite my husband

having lost 5 pounds, despite the fact that he is vegetarian (lacto ovo) the

doctor wrote the following on his chart. " POOR DIET. "

 

SAY WHAT? I thought we had gotten a bit further past the point when a doctor, a

newbie doctor at that, considered a really well planned vegetarian diet to be

POOR.

 

The doctor based his " diagnosis " on a 6 month old blood test that showed my

husband's glucose at 150. Not yesterday morning's test of 102. Not his A1C of

120. But based his diagnosis on the vegetarian diet.

 

This also has peeved me. Did he listen to my husband's heart? No. Did he run

even a piddly resting EKG? No. Did he write up a request for consult with a

cardiologist seeing as husband hasn't seen one since the heart surgery? No. He

did send him to a pulmonologist to see why he is having problems breathing.

 

(Oh gee, lemme think. Could it be because he has asthma, works in the south

Georgia heat breathing air you could probably cut with a knife, doing very

strenous activity?)

 

ARGH!

 

a really peeved Jeanne in Georgia

 

 

 

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