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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhat is the procedure to contest Mehmet Oz's medical license.
After his advocacy allowing millions of school children to die, he should not have his license.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,576 posts)to that state's medical board.
Amazingly, he's on the faculty at Columbia University, and other doctors have been trying to get him fired. In April 2015, a group of ten physicians from prestigious institutions called for Columbia University to part ways with Oz, who was the vice chair of the Department of Surgery. More than 1,300 doctors signed a letter sent to the university. After reading this I'm surprised he has a license at all (evidently NY), let alone a job teaching surgery. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehmet_Oz
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Roland99
(53,342 posts)1. Obtaining the license fraudulently;
2. Practicing the profession fraudulently or beyond its authorized
scope;
3. Practicing the profession with negligence on more than one
occasion;
4. Practicing the profession with gross negligence on a particular
occasion;
5. Practicing the profession with incompetence on more than one
occasion;
6. Practicing the profession with gross incompetence;
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)or, really, any of those other things.
You know, it's been tried with more effort than anyone on DU is willing to put to it...
https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/case-dr-oz-ethics-evidence-and-does-professional-self-regulation-work/2017-02
Dr. Mehmet Oz is widely known not just as a successful media personality donning the title Americas Doctor®, but, we suggest, also as a physician visibly out of step with his profession. A recent, unsuccessful attempt to censure Dr. Oz raises the issue of whether the medical profession can effectively self-regulate at all. It also raises concern that the medical professions self-regulation might be selectively activated, perhaps only when the subject of professional censure has achieved a level of public visibility. We argue here that the medical profession must look at itself with a healthy dose of self-doubt about whether it has sufficient knowledge of or handle on the less visible Dr. Ozes quietly operating under the professions presumptive endorsement.
Roland99
(53,342 posts)SunSeeker
(51,504 posts)Oz directs the Cardiovascular Institute and Complementary Medicine Program at New York-Presbyterian Hospital.
Oz has also been a professor at the Department of Surgery at Columbia University since 2001.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Why Dr. Oz can say anything and keep his medical license
https://www.vox.com/2014/6/24/5838690/why-is-dr-oz-still-a-doctor
Enjoy.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,576 posts)tenured faculty members are almost as hard to get rid of as doctors who advocate for medical bullshit.
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jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Oz is a licensed medical doctor.
You have the wrong information.
GWC58
(2,678 posts)straight up QUACKERY! A snake oil salesmen, nothing more!!
TeamPooka
(24,204 posts)Igel
(35,270 posts)Moreover, he was apparently discussing https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanchi/article/PIIS2352-4642(20)30105-X/fulltext
It's worth reading. Once for understanding and evaluating their claim. And then perhaps a second time with a view of saying how wrong it is. It's impossible to do both at once--just badmouthing something while claiming to be open-minded and understand it aren't compatible. I don't know that I agree with it--and, in any event, in most places this has been decided based on what's best for the next 6 weeks. Avoiding possible future agony isn't worth the annoyance of present discomfort.
The strongest argument for school closures is limiting transmission--and while they address that, it turns out their arguments are weak. Mostly because the arguments for it are fairly incomplete. For instance, closing schools should block transmission--but it's noted that kids increase their out-of-school contacts. Where I live schools are closed--and the neighbors have their kids friends from their old neighborhood and from this neighborhood over. If one person in this neighborhood gets it and transfers it to one of their kids, the neighborhood's infected. Not quite the same risk as wearing masks in school, but I don't think either's been quantified.
Given current rates, by the way, for 1 million American school kids to die we'd expect something like at least 800 million dead American adults. (Of course, most of those would be 70+, so only 160 million or so dead from ages 18-55.)