[mtw]

> found a physio who taught me how to strengthen my core, now I'm at the gym 2x a week and loving it

Most other patients demand quick and effective pain relief. When most doctors operate within a system that promotes total customer satisfaction and when they know an opioid is going to make the pain go away right now, the opioid prescription is easier. Plus this will make extra dollars for the system.

Changing this would require mindset change for patients (I need to endure the pain and follow a clean diet/exercise), and having doctors look to 360 treatments, including diet, sleep and exercise recommendations, instead of opioids

[ce4]

Here's a discussion from 7 months ago about exactly that. US patient came to another country and was faced with a mindset change and subsequently wrote an article about it in the nyt titled "After Surgery in Germany, I Wanted Vicodin, Not Herbal Tea" [0].

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16252372