Comments on: How should Oprah handle medical issues? http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2009/06/how-should-oprah-handle-medical-issues.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:04:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Nancy Leigh Noffsingerhttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2009/06/how-should-oprah-handle-medical-issues.html#comment-92977 Nancy Leigh Noffsinger Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:39:49 +0000 http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/?p=35204#comment-92977 Whatever. I come from a large family. Each one of them has a different ailment, and they have told me each one, the last one being a relative who is having a hysterectomy any day now. The family thinks I understand, but not until one yelled in my ear and said on Sunday.....blah, blah, blah, ......for the first time did I even believe the family's secret or secret black sheep. I am doing well to understand any of this in doublespeak. Don't make fun of me. I want to know the truth. Just like after one of them had eye surgery, he couldn't find out without much work what the followup instructions were. The family thinks everyone understands. One doesn't. Why does the One not get any say in anything????? Whatever. I come from a large family. Each one of them has
a different ailment, and they have told me each one, the last one being a relative who is having a hysterectomy any day now. The family thinks I understand, but not until one yelled in my ear and said on Sunday…..blah, blah, blah, ……for the first time did I even believe the family’s secret or secret black sheep.
I am doing well to understand any of this in doublespeak.
Don’t make fun of me. I want to know the truth. Just like after one of them had eye surgery, he couldn’t find out without much work what the followup instructions were.
The family thinks everyone understands. One doesn’t.
Why does the One not get any say in anything?????

]]> By: amarhttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2009/06/how-should-oprah-handle-medical-issues.html#comment-92950 amar Thu, 18 Jun 2009 07:32:33 +0000 http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/?p=35204#comment-92950 She shouldn't. She should only provide qualified resources. She shouldn’t. She should only provide qualified resources.

]]> By: family practitionerhttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2009/06/how-should-oprah-handle-medical-issues.html#comment-92351 family practitioner Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:25:43 +0000 http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/?p=35204#comment-92351 Dr. Oz is as big a part of the problem. I'm sure he is a fine surgeon, so he should be quiet and just be a surgeon. Instead, he is a self-appointed expert on everything and Oprah behaves like a groupie with him. Meanwhile, he makes life more difficult for us pcps in the trenches. Dr. Oz is as big a part of the problem.
I’m sure he is a fine surgeon, so he should be quiet and just be a surgeon.
Instead, he is a self-appointed expert on everything and Oprah behaves like a groupie with him.
Meanwhile, he makes life more difficult for us pcps in the trenches.

]]> By: Dr_Mnemonichttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2009/06/how-should-oprah-handle-medical-issues.html#comment-92335 Dr_Mnemonic Mon, 15 Jun 2009 04:19:59 +0000 http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/?p=35204#comment-92335 Oprah has to be the poster-woman for paternalism with her "do as we do" attitude and now, when she comes under fire she wants to put the burden on the part-time, minimum wage, retired and soccer mom crowd that make up most of her audience? Sorry if that's a bit harsh, but for her to blame "the masses" that made her who she is, will, I can only hope, backfire as badly as any serious look at Suzanne Sommers' longevity regimen...She ceased to be a newswoman almost as long ago as most news shows ceased to carry actual news... and people wonder why talk radio and blogging are the fastest growing "media outlets" in the world. Oprah has to be the poster-woman for paternalism with her “do as we do” attitude and now, when she comes under fire she wants to put the burden on the part-time, minimum wage, retired and soccer mom crowd that make up most of her audience? Sorry if that’s a bit harsh, but for her to blame “the masses” that made her who she is, will, I can only hope, backfire as badly as any serious look at Suzanne Sommers’ longevity regimen…

She ceased to be a newswoman almost as long ago as most news shows ceased to carry actual news… and people wonder why talk radio and blogging are the fastest growing “media outlets” in the world.

]]> By: Internal Medicinehttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2009/06/how-should-oprah-handle-medical-issues.html#comment-92333 Internal Medicine Mon, 15 Jun 2009 02:49:29 +0000 http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/?p=35204#comment-92333 She has to much authority to speak about medicine. She needs a medical license to be able to do that. Could even be some legal ramifications to influencing someone's medical decisions. On the other hand, I am sure someone like Oprah has a top notch legal team observing every word/episode. She has to much authority to speak about medicine. She needs a medical license to be able to do that. Could even be some legal ramifications to influencing someone’s medical decisions. On the other hand, I am sure someone like Oprah has a top notch legal team observing every word/episode.

]]> By: Rogue Medichttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2009/06/how-should-oprah-handle-medical-issues.html#comment-92332 Rogue Medic Mon, 15 Jun 2009 02:36:46 +0000 http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/?p=35204#comment-92332 If she is going to give medical advice, and she is giving medical advice, and she is going to focus on giving advice contrary to the guidelines of reputable medical organizations, maybe some of her viewers need to start suing her for the bad medical advice.I am guessing that she would seek the services of a real lawyer to deal with problems that come from promoting Dr. Jenny McCarthy, Dr. Jim Carrey, and the rest of the medical fringe. While there is much to be improved in medicine, the answer is not to come to the conclusion that the crazies in tinfoil hats have any kind of a clue.Poeple are dying because of this bad medical advice. Oprah should be ashamed. If she is going to give medical advice, and she is giving medical advice, and she is going to focus on giving advice contrary to the guidelines of reputable medical organizations, maybe some of her viewers need to start suing her for the bad medical advice.

I am guessing that she would seek the services of a real lawyer to deal with problems that come from promoting Dr. Jenny McCarthy, Dr. Jim Carrey, and the rest of the medical fringe. While there is much to be improved in medicine, the answer is not to come to the conclusion that the crazies in tinfoil hats have any kind of a clue.

Poeple are dying because of this bad medical advice. Oprah should be ashamed.

]]> By: buckeye surgeonhttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2009/06/how-should-oprah-handle-medical-issues.html#comment-92325 buckeye surgeon Sun, 14 Jun 2009 23:34:42 +0000 http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/?p=35204#comment-92325 I would suggest that Oprah handle her health care credibility problem by sticking to shows about hair loss options and how to handle your divorce and Tom Cruise jumping off couches and having the entire cast of Spamalot gab about how much they love each other off the set and hawking overrated novels about late thirties female ad execs who have one last chance at love and find themselves falling for the sweet, goodnatured and incredibly hot barista at their favorite coffee shoppe around the corner who secretly writes long epic poems a la the Song of Roland. She's an entertainer, for god's sake. You don't get to be the richest female entertainer in the world by having PBS-esque panels of experts from opposing viewpoints with regards to the relative merits of vaccines. Ignore her. That's what I tell my mom, anyway. I would suggest that Oprah handle her health care credibility problem by sticking to shows about hair loss options and how to handle your divorce and Tom Cruise jumping off couches and having the entire cast of Spamalot gab about how much they love each other off the set and hawking overrated novels about late thirties female ad execs who have one last chance at love and find themselves falling for the sweet, goodnatured and incredibly hot barista at their favorite coffee shoppe around the corner who secretly writes long epic poems a la the Song of Roland. She’s an entertainer, for god’s sake. You don’t get to be the richest female entertainer in the world by having PBS-esque panels of experts from opposing viewpoints with regards to the relative merits of vaccines. Ignore her. That’s what I tell my mom, anyway.

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