The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee What Doctors Aren't Taught Is Killing Us | Dr. Kim Scheuer
Mar 26, 2026
Dr. Kim Scheuer, a board-certified family physician turned lifestyle medicine practitioner who reversed her own health with whole-food, plant-based living. She discusses nutrition gaps in medical training. She describes living off the grid, pantry raids, ultra-processed foods in hospitals, movement as daily life, deprescribing meds, and running lifestyle-focused telemedicine and community programs.
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Doctor's Midlife Green Smoothie Wake-Up
- Kim Scheuer transformed her health at 47 after reading The China Study and Forks Over Knives and trying a daily green smoothie.
- Weight, cholesterol and energy dropped rapidly, prompting her to pursue lifestyle medicine and change her practice approach.
Hospitals Serving The Foods That Made Patients Sick
- Ultra-processed foods are ubiquitous, even inside hospitals, which undermines recovery and prevention.
- Kim describes resistance when she tried to remove fast food from hospital cafeterias and argues health institutions should not serve known harmful options.
Medical School Neglects Preventive Nutrition
- Medical training focuses on technical nutrition like IV feeds, not prevention through food, leaving physicians underprepared to counsel patients on diet.
- Kim calls this a systemic gap: physicians learn clinical procedures but rarely the impact of fuel quality on long-term health.
