[JustUhThought]

Sports medicine? An entire sub-field of the profession dedicated to improving performace beyond average or baseline.

I think you missed half my point, as well. Doctors do take risks with patient's persons all the time. The risks are often taken with the patient's person over the doctor's credentials. My father is on 3 blood pressure meds and hus doctor refuses to try a new regimine that would only require 1. Wtf. The number of complications that are introduced with 3 medications is absurdly risky, but the doctor won't risk a switch. And this is all covered during a 5 min conversation. People soend more time arguing with mechanics about automobile work.

As a society we praise workaholics for being productive, look up to PhDs for casting off years of relationships and life experiences in order to become an expert, and put athletes on pedestals for pushing their bodies to the limit. And even though for the vast majority of people for whom which increased working memory and attention span would mean better education, better professional results, and thus better pay, healthcare, and better general quality of life, and we just shut down the conversation. No, we are told. You can't. Discussion over. Period.

I say, f-ck that. If that's the nor, I challenge it. If that is because doctors don't want to have the responsibility rest on them, I say lay the responsibility with me.

[M_Grey]

So ask for a referral to a sports medicine specialist and see how it goes. I'd point out though, that sports medicine is also the field that "protects" athletes so well... so very well.

That said, whether it's a football player shooting cortisone and lidocaine between kickoffs, popping opiates, or just having their concussions ignored for decades... or someone who wants to work themselves to death, the outcome is the same.

Regret and pain later in life, when you mature a bit and realize that your supposed gains were not really worth it.

[JustUhThought]

I pointed to sports medicine specifically as a counter point to your claim that doctors generally prrform only the function of getting one back to normal.

And to say that "when I mature" I might choose differently... One can be mature without being moribund. One can be wise and still be progressive or even radical. Most to your point though, you're still moralizing, suggesting that when I know what you know, I'll finally grant that you were right all the time.

Moralizing,,, enough already.

[M_Grey]

Nothing you mentioned in your previous post spoke to anything like wisdom, just competitiveness. As for moralizing, there isn't a moral dimension to this for you, so I'm not sure where you're getting that from. The bottom line is just that doctors who are in the business of their patients' business don't act in those patients' best interests from a medical standpoint.

If you want to achieve greatness with drugs at the potential expense of your health, that's fine in my opinion, but it's crazy to think that a doctor should help you.

[JustUhThought]

Sigh, exhaustion, your rhetoric is all over the place. I'd need a keyboard. Alas, I've only my smartphone. Butttt, I would suggest you get your learn on, study logic, and reread your comments.

[JustUhThought]

... If that's the norm...