Posted on 08/06/2014 10:09:38 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
The career path of Dr. Mehmet Oz is most puzzling. Boasting a fine education (Tower Hill prep; Harvard undergrad; Penn med school; and Wharton), Oz did his residency at New York’s Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, and is now an attending surgeon at the same hospital. He also holds various academic appointments at Columbia’s med school. His name appears on more than 150 research papers, and he has published over 20 books—most of which have “You” in the title.
Oprah called him “America’s doctor” in 2004, and following more appearances on her program, the TV Queen gave him his own show on her network in 2009. It quickly became popular, and almost from the beginning Oz expressed his appreciation of so-called alternative medicine. Technically, “alternative medicine” refers to any of various systems of healing or treating disease (as homeopathy, chiropractic, naturopathy, Ayurveda, or faith healing) that are not included in the traditional curricula taught in medical schools of the United States and Britain. [Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged. 2014].
Fanboys of traditional allopathic medicine will argue that “alternative” really means that the therapy has not been proven scientifically, conveniently ignoring the sad reality that a considerable amount of traditional medicine has little or no scientific basis either. Moreover, there are glaring examples of supposedly proven concepts, such as the lipid/cholesterol theory of coronary heart disease, that have simply never passed scientific muster, yet remain part of traditional medicine.
Likewise, there are any number of spectacular failures of “scientifically-proven” and FDA-approved drugs and...
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When he grabs some lady from the audience and hands her a pair of gloves, I know I am about to be grossed out.
My chiropractor has worked miracles with me. Traditional medicine could do nothing for me, other than offer a nice prescription drug addiction.
Already posted -> http://www.healthnewsdigest.com/news/contributing%20columnist0/The-Merry-Old-Land-Of-Oz.shtml
There are some good chiropractors, most of whom are usually affliated with a medical group, but unfortunately a large proportion of them are quacks and scam artists, claiming to cure everything from baldness to prostate cancer.
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