Hey, my name is Dr. Benoit Tano, M.D., Ph.D., and I almost didn't go to school ...
I AM FRENCH SPEAKING TRANSFORMED INTO ENGLISH SPEAKER ...
"A mind is a terrible thing to waste ..." By Arthur Fletcher.
I grew up in Assumé, a small town three kilometers north of Agnibilékrou in Eastern Côte d'Ivoire. In the 1960s and 1970s, we sprayed DDT on coffee before harvesting it to avoid ants’ bites. I still remember my father carrying the DDT spraying machine on his back, and we all inhaled the smoke. My dear adoptive mother died of lymphoma (I know this because I looked back at all the premature deaths in our family to understand the causes of these deaths). My mother had enlarged lymph nodes on both sides of her neck and died in 1970 at 37. What caused this lymphoma?...
The probability of escaping from Assuamé and the farm was slim, yet I got a scholarship from the Ivorian government to pursue higher education in the United States. I received my Ph.D. in economics from SUNY-Albany, in Albany, NY, in 1988 and taught economics at the University of Toledo for seven years before entering medical school in the mid-90s. I graduated from the medical college in Ohio in 1999, completed my internal medicine residency at the Ohio State University Medical Center (OSUMC) in 2002, and became Board Certified in Internal Medicine. I then spent two years in Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes research fellowship sponsored by GlaxoSmithKline, the pharmaceutical company.
In 2004, I started training in allergy and clinical immunology at the Johns Hopkins Asthma and Allergy Center in Baltimore, and I completed this fellowship in 2006 and became Board Certified.
I thought I was ready to get into medical practice, make my patients happy, and change the world. After all, I had one of the best medical training in the United States. I started my practice as an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center in Tyler, Texas (UTHSCT). I did a great job teaching the medical students and taking care of my patients until I attended a conference in Dallas in March 2007 and realized that I was not equipped to deal with the chronic health problems of the 21st century that I encountered daily in the clinic. This conference changed my life and the course of my medical career for the better, and I will share this with you later ...
When I first saw obese patients with multiple co-morbidities, including allergies in adults, I told them to lose weight. Many patients took offense at raising their weight problems because many other practitioners made them feel that their weight gain came from overeating and a sedentary lifestyle. After all, that's what we learned in medical school. We are led to believe that obesity is a calorie-in, calorie-out problem.
Did you know that obesity is not uniform in the United States? If it were a question of calories in and calories out, the rate of obesity would be the same in the United States. We have never been taught anything about environmental toxins, their link to hormonal imbalance, and the impact of hormonal imbalance on chronic diseases, including obesity, allergies, and anxiety/depression (I have now written four books on these issues).
Is your medical training different from physicians reading this? The exact 19th and 20th-century medical curriculum is taught in the United States and worldwide. We are well-trained in the art of differential diagnostics and pharmacology adapted to each diagnosis. We are never taught to examine the environment's and nutrition's impact on health. How many hours of nutrition did you get in medical school? How many hours of environmental medicine did you get in medical school? How many of us know the obesity and pesticide maps and the history behind these maps? How many of us know about the CDC biomonitoring and the CDC's fourth report? How many of us understand why we are told to avoid plastics? How many of us know why there is an essential warning about everyday brand toothpaste? How many of us understand why so many children react to peanuts, soy, dairy products, eggs, and
nuts ... and why cancer is rising? Do environmental toxins play a role in these allergic reactions and chronic diseases? Even as an allergist and clinical immunologist, I was never taught anything about the environment. I know that pollens, dust, mold, and pet dander ... cause allergic rhinitis, conjunctivitis, and asthma ... I learned that many foods and dietary proteins cause food allergies. Today, when I go to conferences, there needs to be more information on why different food proteins suddenly become monsters attacking humans.
When I think about it, many of our practices don't add up. Since the mid-1990s, allergies of all kinds have become epidemic. On the treatment side, we invent machine guns to kill small birds that BB guns are perfectly capable of killing if we understand why BB guns do not work ...
We have lost our way because we completely ignore the toxic environmental factors that play a significant role in all the complex chronic diseases of the 21st century. We can no longer use 19th or 20th-century diagnostics and treatment protocols to fight 21st-century chronic environmental disorders. There is a disconnect between the diagnoses and treatment of environmental health problems, which is the reason for the poor health outcomes. Poor health outcomes cause frustration for patients and practitioners. We are all patients!
The advent of the Internet has begun to bridge the information gap between healthcare professionals and educated and uneducated patients, and the patients are unhappy. They demand more education and better treatment protocols that practitioners do not have. Let's face it, how many of us would like to live with one or more chronic illnesses and take medication for the rest of our lives? If most of us do not complete an antibiotic treatment, how many of us can comply with taking medication every day for the rest of our lives? And yet, that is what we ask many of our patients to do. They complain about this mistreatment, and many vote with their feet looking for alternatives.
Some groups, such as functional medicine groups, are created to fill the void. Still, many healthcare professionals have heard of these groups and thought they were outliers of quackery and did not want to associate with them. Other practitioners need more time to take additional training and retraining to acquire the skills necessary to practice safely in the 21st century. Many health professionals are lost and do not understand why their patients give up and disrespect them.
On the organizational level, there are many undue demands on the practitioner to be more efficient, to work faster, and to stack several patients to generate income. The leaders of medical organizations equate patient dissatisfaction with a lack of medical knowledge and force their members to undergo archaic and inadequate examinations every ten years to prove they are intellectually capable.
All kinds of cockroaches have infiltrated the system to take advantage and are all there to advance these absurd requests ...
Many practitioners are exhausted with all the disrespect, performance requirements, and incomes that are not commensurate with the efforts. Any solutions? Not really. Practitioners express their frustrations on forums such as Doximity but offer no solutions. The WHO (World Health Organization) has had a practitioner "burnout" diagnosis, but what is the therapy?
In response to the poor adaptation of current medical practice to the sources of chronic disease, I created a course called INTEGRATED IMMUNE TRAINING (MENTORSHIP) PROGRAM for healthcare professionals. The system is based on the four books I wrote to elucidate the QUADPANDEMICS (Estrogen-Obesity-Allergy / Immune Complex-Anxiety /depression pandemics) ...
WHAT YOU HAVE JUST READ ABOVE REPRESENTS A FRACTION OF MY ACTIVITIES AS A MEDICAL DOCTOR, RESEARCHER, AND ECONOMIST.
I tell you all this because of my transformation from French to English education ... Despite the language barrier, I could master the English language to study and obtain two doctorate degrees. Not only that,
I HAVE WRITTEN AND CONTINUE TO WRITE BOOKS AND EDUCATE HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS IN ENGLISH AND FRENCH.
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