Why Don’t More Doctors Practice Prevention?
Why don’t more doctors practice preventive cardiology? Time availability is a reason frequently cited by physicians, but if you probe a little deeper, the number one reason given was their perception that patients fear being deprived of all the junk they’re eating. Can you imagine a doctor saying, “I’d like to tell my patients to […] Ref. Source 8y.
Doctors don't want to prevent people from getting sick because they would not have a big income if everyone is healthy. Remember doctors work off of repeat clients and something has to be wrong with you for you to go back.