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by ofonorow » Mon Oct 29, 2012 9:22 am
The doctor is repeating what he is taught, or what people he has faith in (drug reps) tell him. I leave it to johnwen (a practicing MD) to make a recommendation about the statins... (I know what I would do, or not do.)
It is a very difficult thing when the medical doctors who are the most highly trained about a specific condition/disease - really know the least about what causes, and how to effectively treat it.
And I don't generally blame these doctors, because they are practicing what they were taught, and of course, they assume that if other knowledge existed - they would know about it, etc.
I add Rheumatologists to this list of the most ignorant medical specialties , but that is another story!
So how can this be? That medical specialties happen to be ignorant about the very things that would put them out of business?
Now that particular lab is the one lab I do not trust - they used to "calculate" rather than measure Lp(a) and you might ask them if they are still doing that. ( I doubt you will get an answer.) They are using new units (nmol/l rather than mg/dl) so maybe they have gone back to measuring Lp(a) - more expensive?
Owen R. Fonorow
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