TY - JOUR T1 - Bad Medicine: A cure for type 2 diabetes JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 535 LP - 535 DO - 10.3399/bjgp18X699629 VL - 68 IS - 676 AU - Des Spence Y1 - 2018/11/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/68/676/535.abstract N2 - I don’t believe in: Santa, the Easter Bunny, that Pepsi tastes better than Coke, and that social media improves life, #getareallife. But I do believe that overdiagnosis and overtreatment are destroying billions of people’s lives. Antidepressants have marginal benefits and are grossly overprescribed; happiness is not in the gift of medication or medicine. Likewise, chronic pain is complex and often psychologically based, and the use of opioids and gabapentinoids does not work; it creates dependence and steals lives.The ‘science’ behind common treatments for risk factors like osteoporosis, hypertension, and cholesterol is grossly flawed. Less medicine is better medicine. I get tired of … ER -