About Suneel
Bio
Hi, I’m Dr. Suneel Dhand! I am a medical doctor specializing in Internal Medicine and Metabolic Health. I was born in London, grew up in Berkshire, England, and went to medical school at Cardiff University. I then hopped across the pond, doing my medical residency in Baltimore, Maryland. I’ve since worked up and down the east coast, in a number of different healthcare environments and settings. Along the way, I also started a popular healthcare blog, YouTube Channel, and wrote 3 well-being books.
I am passionate about educating on the science of metabolic health and lifestyle-related illnesses. We have gone badly wrong over the last few decades, and today we find ourselves in a position where healthcare and medicine is not only frequently being led down an incorrect path, but has also become very corrupted by financial conflicts of interest and other agendas. It’s a disgrace!
I am vigorously pro-real Science, and anti-Censorship in Medicine, Science and Society (we see a lot of the latter conducted by the negative forces that dominate today)
My thoughts, writings and videos have been widely published online, and can be found in a number of different publications.
I have been extensively involved in medical education and previously held faculty positions at two major Massachusetts medical schools as Clinical Assistant Professor. I have authored articles in clinical medicine that have been published in leading medical journals, covering a range of specialty areas. I’ve also authored chapters in the “5-Minute Clinical Consult” medical textbook. My interest in well-being led me to writing High Percentage Wellness Steps, and the historical fiction book, Thomas Jefferson: Lessons from a Secret Buddha.
Before coming to the United States, I worked in the United Kingdom’s National Health Service, and undertook an elective experience in Australia where I worked with the Royal Flying Doctor Service, flying on airborne missions to the Australian Outback.
When I’m not working, my main hobbies are traveling the world and exercise/fitness. I’m also a certified personal trainer, and need a gym near me anywhere I go…
Dr Dhand’s Real Public Health US/UK
10-point Manifesto
1. Real health is a state of physical and mental well-being, with a healthy lifestyle being the core fundamental building block
2. We have completely lost our way in healthcare and medicine
3. Honest and transparent frontline practicing clinicians must always be leading healthcare, not bureaucrats or politicians. Healthcare must be accessible and affordable for anyone who needs it
4. Our system has become corrupted by financial conflicts of interest and alternative agendas. Big Pharma, Industry, or other political agendas must not corrupt medicine
5. Our leading academic medical centers have become infiltrated by financial and political agendas. Many spend almost as much time attempting to turn their students into political activists, than turning them into true non-judgmental and wise physicians
6. Bodily autonomy, informed consent, and medical ethics must be respected and practiced by all clinicians. Physicians must be critical thinkers who rigorously look at all data objectively and fairly to practice real evidence-based medicine, apply common sense and ethics to all medical decisions, show compassion and empathy, and passionately stand up for their patients’ health and well-being. These values must be taught in medical school
7. Primary care is the cornerstone of healthcare and we have a desperate shortage of primary care doctors. When you do get to see a doctor, you are afforded hardly any time with them, and too much of their time is spent staring at a screen (due to bureaucratic requirements). This has to change, and all clinicians need to get back to their patients and excessively bloated bureaucracy must be reduced
8. We are in the midst of a metabolic health crisis, brought about by a combination of a lack of understanding and awareness of nutritional health science, absence of any societal focus, and complete neglect by our public health authorities (who frequently have financial interests in keeping people sick). This colossal pandemic needs to be addressed urgently
9. Chronic reversible lifestyle-related diseases are soaring, causing immeasurable suffering and escalating healthcare costs. We need immediate national policy proposals to address this
10. The doctor-patient relationship is sacred in healthcare and must be preserved