Opportunistic "expertise"
I don't know what's worse, a medical doctor dispensing pat advice in a magazine column, or a quack therapist making over people's emotional lives in ten-minute television segments.
The medical doctor has credibility. She has also taken an oath to do no harm. So where does she get off, diagnosing a patient she's never met in 100 words or less?
The quack therapist is an opportunistic jerk out to make a buck. Maybe he really believes that what turned his life around actually applies to everybody else. But that doesn't make his capitalizing on the misfortunes of others any easier for me to swallow. What happens a month after the show, when the advice hasn't worked and the person is worse off for having failed?
I saw a magazine today in which a doctor/columnist diagnosed a woman's dizziness as BPPV. I've had BPPV. The symptoms are pretty specific, and this woman's symptoms didn't sound like the ones I experienced at all. There is a specific, very quick test to diagnose BPPV. That woman could have anything from low blood sugar to a brain tumor, and this magazine doctor is telling her to lie on a pillow and turn her head from side to side. In the mean time, if she does have a serious condition, it is worsening.
I also had the misfortune to watch Oprah tell a fat woman that she didn't love herself. Will she have that poor woman back on the show, do you think, the next time Oprah's in a porcine state? I'll bet she'd have some really choice advice for that TV bee-yatch. Now that would be advice worth watching.
The medical doctor has credibility. She has also taken an oath to do no harm. So where does she get off, diagnosing a patient she's never met in 100 words or less?
The quack therapist is an opportunistic jerk out to make a buck. Maybe he really believes that what turned his life around actually applies to everybody else. But that doesn't make his capitalizing on the misfortunes of others any easier for me to swallow. What happens a month after the show, when the advice hasn't worked and the person is worse off for having failed?
I saw a magazine today in which a doctor/columnist diagnosed a woman's dizziness as BPPV. I've had BPPV. The symptoms are pretty specific, and this woman's symptoms didn't sound like the ones I experienced at all. There is a specific, very quick test to diagnose BPPV. That woman could have anything from low blood sugar to a brain tumor, and this magazine doctor is telling her to lie on a pillow and turn her head from side to side. In the mean time, if she does have a serious condition, it is worsening.
I also had the misfortune to watch Oprah tell a fat woman that she didn't love herself. Will she have that poor woman back on the show, do you think, the next time Oprah's in a porcine state? I'll bet she'd have some really choice advice for that TV bee-yatch. Now that would be advice worth watching.
posted by Maggie at 6/09/2005 08:20:00 PM
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Doesn't matter who's worse. They're all going to Hell...the level where you have to do headstands in poop piled one foot deep.
And you have to do those headstands while Dr. Phil is telling you why you and your family are doomed to be fat and miserable forever.
Tom Cruise is an actor.
Why is anyone asking his advice or opinion on anything? That was the first mistake.
Not to disparage all actors, but they are not endowed with special insight any more than are plumbers, engineers, hairdressers or proctologists.
But at least a proctologist can recognize an ass.
Mr. Cruise has drunk his own Kool Aid and L.Ron Hubbard's.
Potion Miscibility!
00 You and everything around you explode in a giant fireball doing 20d6 damage!
If only.
And Dr. Phil can't dispense the advice until his coffee break is over. Then he has to stand on his head like the rest of them.
Actually James, actors can save the world and blow up terrorists...they just have to be able to out act Alec Baldwin- umm, I mean, "Areck Bowrdrin".
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