Syndrome "duck" or "Doctor, I do not understand"

Patients with the syndrome of "ducks" are willing to spend hundreds of thousands to medications, magic "pills Kremlin" and the bed "Nougat-Best", etc., but not for anything in the world will not give up dinner with fried potatoes and bacon, from lying on the couch.

I work as a neurologist. The vast majority of my patients come to me with back pain. Without going into medical details, I would say that 80% of these pain-benign, ie not bear to life and health is no serious danger.

So. Every day I am faced with an absolute medical illiteracy and the reluctance of patients to take care of their health on their own. No, of course they "care", regularly visited by all sorts of advice of doctors, taking pills, hand liters of blood and make X-rays and MRI scans from all angles to find the "source" of the pain. But they did not accept the idea that the source of themselves: their laziness, low physical activity, overeating, bad habits and the lack of a positive outlook on life.

When I, instead of pills and injections, some recommend to do physical exercise and lose weight, they look at me with his eyes, which always reads one sentence:

Doctor, I do not know what nonsense are you telling me here?

They are willing to spend hundreds of thousands to medications, magic "pills Kremlin" and bed "Nougat-Best" etc., but not for anything in the world will not give up dinner with fried potatoes and bacon, from lying on the couch. So I put the diagnosis to patients: "Duck syndrome".

They really are like ducks: belly fat, waddle gait and eternal "groaning" over a thick his medical history. And an endless stream of complaints. In America, there is a funny word for such people - roly-poly (trans.: roly-poly).

Again, we are talking about the patients surveyed who do not have serious health problems. Why are they ready to take responsibility for their health to doctors who see the first or the second time in his life, but not for anything in the world do not recognize, and his "contribution" to the state?

A young girl with a weight a hundred kilograms?

Doctor, I do not eat and do fitness, but still can not lose weight, perhaps, I have a problem with the thyroid gland, an urgent need to go to the endocrinologist.

Actually, it turns out that eating an elephant, a fitness campaign is limited to the track at a speed of 4 km per hour two times a week. And what we get in thirty years 'invalid' on their own, back pain and knees due overweight, Sport does not want to, can not work. And there are hundreds of patients.

Friends! Do not become a 'duck'! Love yourself and your body!

Believe me, it is much easier to "prevent", than to treat disease. Exercise and eat healthy food. Enjoy your life and that you are healthy and not "burdened" with all sorts of chondrosis, arthrosis and other sores! Good luck to you!