“Doctors are not scientists”, I heard quite often from my PhD mentor, Bruno Breyer, PhD ( Bonn), MD (Padua) [1], when he returned to his university office after visiting the medical clinic where he also consulted..
Physicians are oriented to the "pill for every ill" paradigm of medicine. Stopping bad habits does not fit into that mode of thinking. Hence, you get the "AIDS is a viral disease and here's the medicine that will cure it" policy. That goes for just about every other medical problem. Now Americans are the most heavily medicated (and chronically ill) people on earth.
Physicians are oriented to the "pill for every ill" paradigm of medicine. Stopping bad habits does not fit into that mode of thinking. Hence, you get the "AIDS is a viral disease and here's the medicine that will cure it" policy. That goes for just about every other medical problem. Now Americans are the most heavily medicated (and chronically ill) people on earth.
How to change??
There's the question!