Surveys are indicating some pretty strong shifts in patient attitudes toward doctors and healthcare in general. Will doctors be able to respond to their needs or will they require the patient to conform to their outdated ways?

Why don’t doctors talk about prevention to their patients? Is it that they don’t have time, or don’t want to or is it that they don’t have the expertise? Doctors increasingly are coming under criticism for not advising their patients about “lifestyle” issues that are contributing to their illness. Yet, there is very little evidence that physicians are doing anything to respond to the criticism. Why is this? A new organization has emerged to help mainstream medicine get with it on this all-important healthcare issue.The American College of Lifestyle Medicine is a relatively new national, professional, membership society for those…