Why Your Doctor Is Thinking About Getting an MBA
By DAVID SHAYWITZ, MD
To understand why so many medical students (and pre-meds) (and doctors) contemplate business training, let’s consider two real-life examples: Dr. Bob Kocher and Dr. Bijan Salehizadeh. Both trained as physicians, both are currently healthcare investors, and both shared their stories with Lisa Suennen and me on our Tech Tonics podcast. (Kocher’s interview can be found here; Salehizadeh’s will available at the end of the month.)
(My usual disclosure: I work at a cloud genomics company in Silicon Valley; neither my company nor I have a financial relationship with Kocher, Salehizadeh, or their firms....
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 26, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: THCB Source Type: blogs
Has Dr. Oz become antivaccine?
When last we left “America’s doctor,” Dr. Mehmet Oz, in June, he was having his posterior handed to him by Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO) in a Senate hearing about the deceptive marketing of supplements in which his over-the-top promotion of supplements like Garcinia gambogia, green coffee bean extract, and raspberry ketone. It was an unexpected… (Source: Respectful Insolence)
Source: Respectful Insolence - September 12, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Antivaccine nonsense Complementary and alternative medicine Pseudoscience Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking Jr. Mark Hyman Mehmet Oz Robert F. Kennedy The Dr. Oz Show thimerosal Source Type: blogs
After serious self-reflection, is there redemption for Dr. Oz?
Recently, Dr. Oz has come under scrutiny for his information on a number supplements that he alleges help with weight loss. Over the past 2 years, he has presented information about 3 diet supplements: green coffee extract, raspberry ketones and garcinia cambogia. After reviewing the available information, I can not agree that there is compelling scientific information to recommend these products. I am a bit bewildered that Mehmet Oz, a very well trained cardiothoracic surgeon, currently a professor of surgery and former full-time academic physician at Columbia University, would repeatedly go out on such a limb.
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Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - July 30, 2014 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Harry A. Oken, MD Tags: Physician Mainstream media Source Type: blogs
Make Use of the Effective Weight Management On Your Obesity Related Issues
Due to the various possibilities most of the people are affected from the universal disorder obesity. On having such disorder, obesity people are facing many issues in their valuable life. Moreover such persons are not only facing many physical issues over disorder but also they are physiologically facing many issues. In fact if they don’t properly act toward to their disorder, it will cause severe effects to them. Being the abnormal body weight is considered as the key factor of all hazards diseases, like heart diseases, liver disorder, cholesterol, blood pressure, diabetic II and other related diseases. So it is ve...
Source: Mental Nurse - December 30, 2013 Category: Nurses Authors: Iqcguest Tags: Health ketones Obesity Weight Management Source Type: blogs
Does Raspberry Ketone Promote Weight Loss?
Raspberry ketone is an aromatic compound found in red raspberries. It's extracted and used in perfumes and cosmetics and it's also used as a flavoring agent in some fruit-flavored foods. ...Read Full Post (Source: About.com Nutrition)
Source: About.com Nutrition - February 13, 2013 Category: Nutritionists and Food Scientists Source Type: blogs
Dr. Oz's Problem
Red palm oil. Green coffee beans. Raspberry ketone. Some of you are wondering what the heck I'm making for dinner, but some of you will recognize the common characteristic: all of these have been promoted by Dr. Mehmet Oz, the most famous physician in the country.
I'm prompted to write about him by this New Yorker profile, which is excellent reading. It author, Michael Specter, tries his best to figure out why a talented, well-trained cardiac surgeon is sitting down on his own television show with psychic healers, fad-diet pushers, and the likes of Joseph Mercola. (In case you haven't run across him, consider yourself for...
Source: In the Pipeline - January 29, 2013 Category: Chemists Tags: Snake Oil Source Type: blogs
