[quote]gremlin1267 wrote:
IMO this doctor was overreaching his bounds–taking his pHD
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I may be wrong, but I don’t think he has a PhD…he has an MD…I think…sorry…I have to speak up…it’s a problem I know, but I have to be right…it’s just in my nature.
[quote]DixiesFinest wrote:
[quote]goochadamg wrote:
Am I the only one who see’s nothing odd about this? He was there for a drug test, and the doctor asked if he had taken steroids. The majority (according to at least one documentary) of steroid users are recreational bodybuilders, and the OP made it known to the doctor he lifted. The OP fit the profile of someone who may use steroids and the question was appropriate given the nature of the visit.
Now, if you, OP, were a non weight lifter, and such was known to the doctor, who had a stretch mark at a non drug test related visit, and those stretch marks prompted him to ask if you took steroids (which, if it wasn’t clear, in your case it only prompted him to ask if you lifted. Big difference.), then yes… it was an odd question. But this wasn’t the case at all.
This thread annoys me. [/quote]
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I wish I had doctors who asked me things related to young healthy active men. It was a normal question, if you wanted to take offense you should be offended by the fact that he asked if you EVER used because that would mean you obviously don’t use now.
An average doctor’s knowledge of nutrition is pretty minimal, last weekend I was in the ER and had a doctor ask me how my blood lipid profile, as well as my heart rate and blood pressure was so low for someone of my size at 235 lbs. I have alot of respect for doctors, in my case I am alive because of them, but I had to nicely share that my opinion was that in the case of medical school, most doctors have not seen the body pushed regarding physical limits when trained hard and given adequate nutrition. I told him, take someone and train them hard with heavy weights and feed them more than 50 grams of protein a day, you won’t look like a walking cadaver.
[quote]goochadamg wrote:
Am I the only one who see’s nothing odd about this? He was there for a drug test, and the doctor asked if he had taken steroids. The majority (according to at least one documentary) of steroid users are recreational bodybuilders, and the OP made it known to the doctor he lifted. The OP fit the profile of someone who may use steroids and the question was appropriate given the nature of the visit.
Now, if you, OP, were a non weight lifter, and such was known to the doctor, who had a stretch mark at a non drug test related visit, and those stretch marks prompted him to ask if you took steroids (which, if it wasn’t clear, in your case it only prompted him to ask if you lifted. Big difference.), then yes… it was an odd question. But this wasn’t the case at all.
This thread annoys me. [/quote]
The doc asked me after my results came back clean. Why ask any drug related question after the fact? If he thought I did something shady why not retest me?
Maybe I wasn’t clear in my first post, the doc gave off an anti-muscle vibe. He was basically saying that only fools lift heavy weights because you WILL eventually injure yourself.
The steroid question came out of left field (he was walking out of the door) like he couldn’t believe that I maintained what muscle I do have without juicing. (I just got back into seriously lifting and I told him that).