By Sarah / The Healthy Home Economist

There is clearly great value in a second opinion!

This article got its start last week via social media when I noticed that two parents had posted what a conventional health practitioner had suggested as ideal food for their children.

One mother said her nutritionist instructed her to feed her toddler salisbury steak frozen dinners as it “was complete nutrition”.  The second suggestion was from a pediatrician who recommended supermarket hot dogs as a first food for a weaning baby “because they are soft and easy to chew”.

I was so shocked by these comments that I started a Facebook thread asking people to post the most jaw dropping thing a doctor had ever said to them. The discussion quickly snowballed into a string of nearly 600 comments from folks who contributed their own outrageous stories which were so unbelievable that I felt the material deserved its own blog post.

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