Doing research for a booklet about ten years ago, official stats from AMA revealed that the life expectancy for MDs was 70.8 years. Note that this is approximately 10% less than the general population. So why should we unquestionably take advice from the run of the mill MD? Obviously they know little if anything about nutrition, health and the causes of disease. As Dr. Wakefield intimates, they run a symptom management business model.