Dr. Oz is running for #PA senate.
Dr. Oz is a quack doctor. A fraud.
What's up with that? What IS a quack doctor?
An educational thread.
#MedEd #medtwitter
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So I decided to look into this whole "quack doctor" thing.
Comes from old Dutch word QUACKSALVER, meaning "hawker of ointment".
Now it means someone who sells bogus cures.
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Turns out, quack doctors have been around a long long time. They are con artists who know what people want from medicines.
We all want to:
lose weight
be younger
be smarter
have more energy
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Quack doctors also know we are afraid - afraid of epidemics we don't understand.
Every plague brought miracle cures. Sound familiar?
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Which brings us to the modern time.... and this guy.
Dr. Oz.
Who has hawked diet meds, vitamins, and all sorts of cures.
He was even hauled in front of Congress in 2016, and grilled for his false claims.
Didn't stop him. And why should it? He was making bank.
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So the questions are:
* shouldn't medical boards and orgs protect the public?
* why don't people like this lose their licenses and get tossed out?
Oz still has title of "professor emeritus" at Columbia Univ; why?
turns out, we're lousy at self policing in medicine.
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Unless the House of Medicine starts to take these quacks seriously & sanction them....
... we will keep having more quacks.
I helped prove hydroxychloroquine doesn't prevent #COVID19 in a randomized trial, but quacks still push the stuff.
For personal profit. Grrr.
/fin
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