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FWIW, Doctor Oz is actually an accomplished surgeon. But it's like how I wouldn't trust my gastroenterologist to diagnose why my back hurts, y'know? No one should trust whatever bullshit he spews outside his narrow scope of highly specialized knowledge.
His medical accomplishments are greatly inflated. All of his publications he is one of 20 middle authors that had little to do with the project. Journals stopped allowing this, but it's very common for MDs to put their names on papers they had no reason to be on. Oz tried to make "therapeutic touch" standard of care in his clinic.
Therapeutic touch was disproven by a 11 year old student at a US science fair.
In the end, Columbia medical staff signed the petition to cut him off from Columbia because of his historical quackery and medical misinformation.
TLDR he was a bad doctor.
Ben Carson was a brilliantly gifted neurosurgeon and a complete fucking idiot at the same time....
Just because someone has the word doctor in their name doesn't mean they know what the fuck they are talking about re: any other subject outside their field of expertise
Was. He’s a politician and media whore now. Genuine piece of shit.
I mean fair enough, but they don't take degrees away following a career change.
The point is not that he's not a real doctor, it's more that not all doctors are good people or deserving of trust just by title alone.
Someone who claims to be knowledgeable while speaking outside their area of expertise is more dangerous than a layman doing the same thing. They can abuse the credential to seem more like an authority figure than they are.