The Wizard of Oz
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@horace said in The Wizard of Oz:
Glad to hear he's not a fraud
Well perhaps he's less of a fraud:
He excelled during his residency at Columbia University, receiving the Blakemore research prize for outstanding surgery resident four times.[19] Oz helped develop numerous devices and procedures related to heart surgery, including the MitraClip and the left ventricular assist device (LVAD), and by 2015 held 11 patents related to heart surgery.
In 2010, Oz joined Jeff Arnold as co-founder of Sharecare, Inc.
Oz has been a professor at the Department of Surgery at Columbia University since 2001.[31] He also directs the Integrative Medicine Center at Columbia University,[32] which he cofounded as the Cardiac Complementary Care Center in 1994
But...
Oz has faced criticism due to his tendency to promote pseudoscience. He has been supportive of homeopathy,[75] and is a proponent of alternative medicine.[50] Popular Science[76] and The New Yorker[34] have published critical articles on Oz for giving "non-scientific" advice.[34]
A 2014 study published in the British Medical Journal found that medical talk shows such as The Dr Oz Show and The Doctors often lack adequate information on the specific benefits or evidence of their claims. 40 episodes of each program from early 2013 were evaluated, determining that evidence supported 46 percent, contradicted 15 percent and was not found for 39 percent of the recommendations on The Dr Oz Show...
Oz has been awarded the James Randi Educational Foundation's Pigasus Award from 2009 to 2012 for his promotion of energy therapies, support of faith healing, psychic communication with the dead and "quack medical practices, paranormal belief, and pseudoscience".
For a while, I was getting a lot of spam on "anti-aging" which Oz was pushing with a guy named Mike Roizen. Roizen is an anesthesiologist who used to be at the University of Chicago, chairman. He came to my place back in 1984 (?) as a visiting professor. My encounter with him was not pleasant...
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Dr. Mehmet Oz, the celebrity heart surgeon best known as the host of TV’s Dr. Oz Show after rocketing to fame on Oprah Winfrey’s show, announced Tuesday that he is running for Pennsylvania’s open U.S. Senate seat as a Republican.
Oz — a longtime New Jersey resident — enters a Republican field that is resetting with an influx of candidates and a new opportunity to appeal to voters loyal to former President Donald Trump, now that the candidate endorsed by Trump has just exited the race.
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@george-k said in The Wizard of Oz:
Dr. Phil is a fraud.
Dr. Oz is a board-certified heart surgeon.Dr. Phil touches the parts of the heart that mere surgery cannot reach.
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Always remember, Operation Valkyrie was an act of sedition.
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@jolly said in The Wizard of Oz:
Isn't Phil a psychologist?
By training, yes. By licensure, no.
McGraw stopped renewing his Texas license to practice psychology in 2006.[48] The California Board of Psychology has determined that he does not need a license in that state because he does not practice psychology on his show.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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@george-k said in The Wizard of Oz:
@jolly said in The Wizard of Oz:
Isn't Phil a psychologist?
By training, yes. By licensure, no.
McGraw stopped renewing his Texas license to practice psychology in 2006.[48] The California Board of Psychology has determined that he does not need a license in that state because he does not practice psychology on his show.
As far as he's concerned, a distinction without a difference.
Always remember, Operation Valkyrie was an act of sedition.
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@jolly said in The Wizard of Oz:
As far as he's concerned, a distinction without a difference.
That's right, and he's making a TON more money doing what he's doing rather than practicing his trade (Just ask D2 what a doctorate in psychology earns).
If you don't have a license, you're not a doctor. You're just someone who's very well educated in a field.
It's really a distinction WITH a difference.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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@george-k said in The Wizard of Oz:
@jolly said in The Wizard of Oz:
As far as he's concerned, a distinction without a difference.
That's right, and he's making a TON more money doing what he's doing rather than practicing his trade (Just ask D2 what a doctorate in psychology earns).
If you don't have a license, you're not a doctor. You're just someone who's very well educated in a field.
It's really a distinction WITH a difference.
Well, not quite.
Whether you have a license to practice, you're still a doc. BTW, quit slacking, check to make sure your license is good and go terrorize some residents...
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I haven't been following the Pennsylvania senate race all that closely other than to be aware that the Democrat candidate (Fetterman) had a stroke a while ago, and at his last public appearance, he appeared, well, Biden-esque.
OTOH, I know little about Oz (R-Oprah) other than he
iswas a credible board-certified heart surgeon. His medical credentials seem solid and he has had multiple academic appointments.BUt...he's said some pretty strange things, which make me wonder.
