Medicine
fromThe Atlantic
2 days agoLongevity Medicine Is Being Oversold
Modern longevity medicine is booming due to social-media-driven marketing despite limited placebo-controlled evidence and risks of patient harm.
I've been a physician for 30 years. For the first three quarters of my career, I did all sorts of surgeries, from trauma and emergency surgery, to general and reconstructive cancer surgery. I loved surgery, and I still miss being in the operating room, but I was totally burnt out. I was not happy. I did not want to go to work, and I thought, who wants to live this way?