This means that the average practicing physician is practicing medicine at least 50 years behind science. Since most of the science of nutrition has been developed in the last 50 years, this means physicians just don't have this information to help people. Every physician should be testing every patient with thyroid disease for a selenium deficiency. It's absolutely inexcusable that this is not happening. This is the direct result of improper education in medical schools and the lack of state requirements for physicians to maintain their education.
Doctors are too busy making money to keep up with scientific advances in medicine.
As many people say, doctors get their educations from pharmaceutical and medical equipment sales agents. It's a very sad situation, but the patient should be aware that their physician may very well be not up to date on the latest in medical science. When it comes to correcting our health, we are on our own. The vast majority of medical professionals don't have the knowledge or the motivation to help us accomplish that goal. Today, more and more of the non-AMA health professionals have the belief that nutrition is critically important but there just isn't enough knowledge in books to help correct the serious diseases.