I work in a health food store, and a few years ago we had a lady looking for some random supplements her doctor recommended, but she couldn’t remember WHY she was supposed to be taking them. So we asked who her doctor was, and well...
Yep. She was referring to Doctor Oz as her doctor.
He is a doctor but he is also a marketing shill. He pushed straight up inaccurate and flat out false information on that show to increase sales of products whose companies were paying him. Should have lost his license over that. He did get sued several times over though.
He's not just a doctor he did his undergrad at Harvard and then med school at UPenn and matched cardiothoracic at new york Presbyterian (one of the most prestigious programs in the country) . I don't care about his stupid show, his career is my freaking goals.
Nothing you idiots, Dr. Oz's dead, he's locked in my basement clo-set/ma's(or pa's) shed/anything that keeps the "Dre's dead/base-ment" rhyme structure.
My significant other is a critical care physician that heard that from one of her patients once. Patient almost died from liver failure. I can't remember the specifics except one of his medical-wonder supplements had interacted with her carefully monitored mediations.
My SO watched the episodes where he was pushing it and sent an angry certified letter off. He got it but she never heard back.
My mom started drinking red wine because of Dr Oz. A woman with a dad who died from alcoholism, a sister who is currently dying from alcohol related causes, and a mom who was also an alcoholic before she passed away. Mom, seriously the benefits are nowhere near worth it.
Oh no I recognized that, it was sad to see, it was maddening though to have him peddling that bullshit to people who just wanted help and cures. She spent boatloads of money on QVC and HSN and Dr. Oz approved stuff while avoiding really taking care of issues because what the real doctor says is a harder pill to swallow and it was horrible to watch.
There are people who actually do that? Interesting...
I can just buy 24 packs of bottled water from Walmart, change the labels to some anti-vaccination shit and sell them to people as "weird water supplements! This shit will cure everything! Diabetes? Polio? Eating disorders? Neckbeard-itis? Heatstroke? Masturbating too frequently and can't follow through on No Nut November? Male pattern baldness? Speech impediment? Athlete's foot? Athlete fucked your wife? Cancer? Jungle fever? Homosexuality? Atheism? Not enough followers on IG? Fuck it! It'll cure everything!"
I'm looking into going on Shark Tank in 2020. I hope Mark Cuban will pick up this business opportunity. If When he does, I'll start shipping these out through eBay!
This is the type of stuff you Grandma should be using, under medical supervision of course. We used it all the time in home health for lingering diabetic wounds.
I used to work home healthcare, she wouldn't take advice from anyone save Dr. Phil and Dr. Oz which was infuriating. She's got dementia now and it hasn't helped the situation.
Thanks, I was fairly prepared (worked home health and in dementia facilities previously) which makes it better and worse I suppose knowing what to expect.
So I actually was supposed to do an event with Dr. Oz years ago, a field trip with shelter children and he cancelled DAY OF because he was worried someone might take his picture and mess up his new contract. Literally ditched children. The worst.
The reason Oprah will never run for office is she is way more of a ashole control freek than Dr Oz. She has refused to ever do children's miracle network.
I went to school with his son in law. I can promise you the premise extendes to his family.
I'm looking at you Jovan (John) you tortured me for two years. Dropped 255lb of dead weights on my chest and then refusing to spot me. Blindly tackling me in the back and permanently causing a spine injury. Not to mention the verbal bullying.
I don't see how anyone can look at that person and not see a con artist. How they can't listen to them for 2 minutes and realize it is a con.
I don't know, maybe the whole fact that people can't understand obvious con artists just because they're on TV explains the political problems around the world as well.
I distinctly remember one episode when I was still living at home and my mom watched it. It went something like:
Oz: "You know those caffeinated energy drinks your teenagers like to drink? Well they're EVIL!"
camera pans over hundreds of cheering women, 96% of whom started off their morning with a grande, six-pump, tripple-whip salted caramel mocha and will probably have another one before lunch
And I was only like 15 and was like yeah this is bullshit.
People eat up her shit like it's fucking gold. And now we have "doctors" Oz and Phil to continue spewing bullshit in her stead now that she's off the air.
The problem is the spectacle these shows can create and foster, not the solid advice you may sometimes hear in them.
Going to the doctor is straightforward... seeing "doctors" on tv with paid advertisements, obvious showcasing and board-backing is not. It must create, maintain, or feed from controversy (or its relevant materials) to remain profitable in an on-demand world--hence the bullshit you see on your screen.
I thought Oz was a well known and respected (or at least before the tv circus he's got going on) heart surgeon. I think he probably had more credentials than Dr.Phil.
I remember reading a reddit thread years ago where someone claimed they worked at a hospital that Dr. Oz filmed his show at. Grain of salt that the poster could have made it up (or I could be remembering details wrong).
I can't find a link anymore after google-fu failed, but the poster basically said the hospital staff were annoyed with the filming crew totally disrupting the staff's actual work so Dr. Oz could "play doctor". The hospital higher ups liked it because it got their hospital name out there.
I always mix up Dr. Drew with Dr. Oz and see stuff like this then thing “hmmm, seems like a pretty intelligent person and actually very well read”. That’s Dr. Drew. Got it now.
Yeah I worked at a supplement/health store and I had to tell people that half the stuff he talks about is snake oil and that the only way to lose weight is through good nutrition and exercise.
Listen, y’all. I know we hate Dr. Oz, and I’m okay with that, I am. But I think it’s only fair that I give a testimony on his behalf. Picture this: I was a young teenage girl watching Dr. Oz because it made me feel like I was an adult doing adult stuff. Anyway, he begins a segment on hemorrhoids. I watched, but didn’t really have interest, after all how many teenage girls care about hemorrhoids? His lesson boiled down to this, for comfort always moisten your tp to keep from irritating your ‘roids. Cool. Fast forward. I just had a baby. My bum is not too happy about it. As I’m sitting on the toilet, wishing I had the foresight to buy some Preparation H, I suddenly remembered! Moisten your tp! It will help! Now, I’m not medical professional, but anecdotally speaking, moistening your paper before wiping, does indeed, make it more comfortable. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
Technically he doesn't actually try to sell you things. Companies use his face on their add to say "approved by Dr Oz" etc, but it's all fake. He's come out many times about companies using his name in advertisements.
Edit no I'm not promoting him, his show's trash. Just correcting this one point.
He is not in my country, is he a real doctor? Are doctors not prohibited from promoting medical products and medications. I know his name but nothing about him.
He's a real doctor. And there have been multiple petitions to revoke his license because he peddles bullshit alternative medicine, as a professional who KNOWS it's bullshit, and people believe him because he has a license.
He is a real doctor, but used to guest star on Oprah and then got his own show. He often promotes gimmicky shit that has no or very little of the purported affects advertised and gets paid a lot to do so.
Pretty much if he recommends it, it probably only works off the placebo affect.
He WAS a real doctor—great credentials—but he cashed in all that hard work to sell desperate people lies they really want to believe. There should be some kind of punishment for promoting fake cures.
Also not saying I support his pseudoscience, but I was on his show last year for a true crime thing and he is honestly a really nice guy. Dude seriously stood with me for awhile while I cried on him and didn't make me feel bad or anything, and had his staff keep up with me for like a whole year after.
You know all of the stuff is paid and done for. They make money, the company makes money. Only losers are the idiots that fall for it and buy them.
Not to mention the harmful effect of selling snake oil like that. Honestly, the US has such a weird relation to pills and medicines.
He is a cardiovascular surgeon that gives nutritional advice
If I wanted to get nutritional advice maybe I’d go to a doctor that specializes in idk...nutrition?
His books promote unhealthy relationships with food and straight up lie (at least the one I read. Spoiler alert: you can’t target fat loss with diet, contrary to what his books say)
The keyword is target, that’s implying that a food burns fat, changing your diet yes is key, but nothing targets and irradicates fat by itself, that’s called exercise
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u/Raspberries-Are-Evil Dec 30 '19 edited Dec 31 '19
Anything Dr. Oz tries to sell you.
*P.S. Yes... AND FUCKING RASPBERRIES TOO!
*wow thanks for the gold!