As far as my friend goes, he's doing better. He's taking baby steps toward adding truly healthy choices to his lifestyle. I won't even attempt to detoxify his off-kilter mindset bad medicals that places such ridiculous paradigms of health on a pedestal. As long as he's getting healthier, that's what matters most... for now.
An old man goes to a doctor for a thorough medical examination. After the examination medicals fake the doctor tells him that he has good as well as bad news for him. He asks the patient what he would like to hear first. The patient says he would want to hear the bad news first. The doctor says that you have cancer and you have only about two years. The old man becomes worried that his life will be over after two years. He asks the doctor for the good news. The doctor says that he has Alzheimer's and in about two months time he would have forgotten what the doctor has told him today.
Indeed, I was rather alarmed when I saw an Airborne tattoo insignia in a tattoo parlor with a price tag next to it of $100. Meaning that you would not have to prove that you're ever in the military just give them the $100, medicals bad and fake that was a little disconcerting. Of course, a tattoo parlor is under no legal obligation to check papers to make sure that they were actually in the military before they give them that tattoo.
This is the mindset... the paradigm. There's no need to "do" anything until there are test results that directly connect to a specific classification of drugs we can use to change the test result. These isolated tests are next-to-never combined to give a picture representative of overall physiological function... or health. They're simply snippets of a system here, an organ there... scattered bits of information.
It is a condition where the sugar level in your blood remains abnormally high. It happens for one of two reasons. Either your pancreas has lost the ability to produce enough insulin or your body has built defensive mechanisms that don't allow insulin to push sugar into your cells and out of the blood.
If you have one specific person helping out your patients, politely answering their queries, informing them in advance if it is going to take a little longer for them to see the doctor, basically, you have a personal relationship person whose only task is to put the patients at ease. Try this out and you will see a measurable difference in your business. Such personal service sets you apart from your competition.