Originally Posted by
Jonathon Sullivan
The real hell of it is that we shouldn't have to educate doctors. The biomedical literature itself should educate them, because it's packed with data showing the benefit and safety of strength training in aging populations--even the oldest of the old. As far as I'm concerned, the doctor in the OP is no better than one who still uses clonidine as first line therapy for hypertension, or still withholds analgesia from the acute abdomen, or still uses leeches for cholecystitis.
This is not just aggravating, it's unforgiveable. This is bad medicine. This physician has done his patient an enormous disservice, and he will continue to do so, and there's absolutely nothing anybody can do to stop him. It's maddening.