Everyone to their own opinion. In my in-home visits they got my height off by an inch more or less every year. I was told repeatedly what to eat or drink and one practitioner reported to my doctor that I "was prone to falls." The drawing of hands on a clock would baffle millennials but the real purpose of it is to see if you are mentally OK or starting to get Oldtimers disease. I do not appreciate any of that, especially because I work professionally for a large corporation. In one such home visit I had a doctor who scolded me saying I could not drink a certain Mexican soda I had stocked because I am a type 2 diabetic. Surprise! I also drink German beer, eat lots of foods high in potassium, and I drink milk and eat peanut butter. If my lifestyle causes heart attacks, so does living itself. Why is my attitude sad? My next door neighbor must be equally as sad. It's true that I cannot tell when I am full and eat too often and my main doctor thinks I might have been better off if I had never have stopped lifting weights.

What I find sad here is the attitude of the medical profession whose main objective is making money from everyone young and old. Then they pass it on to you that this is all about your own precious health. In the case of my older daughter they left a cancer the size of a grain of rice in her breast for a year while they treated her with chemo and radiation. It should have been removed and then the radiation and chemo. Now the claim is that the cancer "escaped" and she is forever stage 4 metastatic and even ended up with a brain tumor because of this. OK today, but at what cost. This was all about making money more than it was about her. Medicine is a money making practice today more than it ever was. My neighbor needs an operation but she smokes and they say all traces of nicotine has to be absent from her body for 160 days or no operation. Life and death happens to all of us but modern medicine seems to be run by the same group that wants to deny women's healthcare after Roe v. Wade was struck down. All of that is what is really sad.

@DenoPenno no ''doctor'' comes to your house on these calls, it is a nurse, and they work off a set list of things to check and warn you about, (like a tendency to fall) which IMO you should be grateful for...a broken hip can completely ruin your life in one second....it sure did for my Mom.
And nothing they say has any power over you whatsoever........i fail to see why you think it does.....

@AnneWimsey In the case I refer to it was a doctor who came. Usually they are a nurse but I did have a real doctor here once. She had a practice in Fenton but it must have been slow. She signed up to do this. As for the "tendency to fall" this came from a story I was telling and it was reported wrongly to my primary doctor. Her and I both got a giggle out of it later.

I'm sorry to hear that your mom broke her hip. This is always a very serious situation and it hard to recover from. My stepdad broke his hip and never recovered. In my workplace I have 2 people who have had hip replacements. I think their situations were from the hip just wearing out. I certainly would not want to go through this.

I'm sure you think I am set in my ways but there is more to my post that is not commented on. My neighbor for one and then my oldest daughter and her cancer. Both of these are about making of money rather than real healthcare.