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Apr 28, 2015 · Mehmet Oz, the popular television doctor known as Dr Oz and who has been dubbed “America’s Doctor” by the television personality Oprah Winfrey, has said that he will not be silenced by critics who have alleged that he misleads the public, promoting miracle cures of no proven value.
- Michael McCarthy
- 2015
Dec 17, 2014 · According to the analysis, Dr. Oz offers an average of 12 recommendations per show. The authors' findings, and to the BMJ’s credit, the ensuing BMJ discussion, point out what glass houses we all live in.
Dec 20, 2014 · Critics of Dr. Mehmet Oz, an accomplished cardiac surgeon with degrees from two Ivy League universities, complain that his show is little more than an hour-long infomercial for weight-loss fads...
- Introduction
- Dr. Oz and The Problems of Self-Regulation
- The Boundaries of Legitimacy
- Conclusion
Dr. Mehmet Oz’s surgical credentials including expertise in minimally invasive, heart transplant, and heart valve surgery are impeccable . But when Dr. Oz walks onto the stage of The Dr. Oz Show, he’s not just a well-trained heart surgeon, he becomes “America’s Doctor®.” The Dr. Oz Showaverages nearly four million daily viewers and has won two Emmy...
The profession of medicine in its modern conceptualization includes self-regulation. By upholding quality of care and dealing proactively with those who are dangerously out of step with their colleagues, self-regulation in turn gives medicine a degree of protection and autonomy from government procedural rule . Self-regulation is a hallmark of impl...
The second and perhaps more perplexing irony of the Dr. Oz case turns the spotlight of attention back on the profession itself. That Dr. Oz has been singled out as the target of professional angst to the exclusion of other questionable “professionals” also deserves our reflection. There have always been disreputable physicians on the fringe of medi...
The case of Dr. Oz forces us to own our own contemporary moment, rebooting doubt on how we know what we know and whose opinion counts. In this sense, Dr. Oz and all that he represents is a mirror on the medical profession in late modernity. While medical boards and licensing persist, they arguably persist as weak vestiges of a robust ideal that see...
- Jon C. Tilburt, Megan Allyse, Frederic W. Hafferty
- 2017
Apr 23, 2015 · Dr. Oz has come under heavy criticism in recent months for promoting junk science on his widely watched television show. He’s been lambasted by experts, by fellow doctors, even by the federal...
May 7, 2018 · Researchers have tallied up the "scientific" advice offered by popular US TV programs The Dr Oz Show and The Doctors, and found that half of it was blatantly wrong or had no evidence behind it. This guy was just nominated to Trump's health council.
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Jan 1, 2013 · A seemingly benevolent health website has helped line Oz’s pockets through behind-the-scenes links to industry—and has Oz acolytes unwittingly handing over their personal health information to...
