Dr. Mehmet Oz, the ubiquitous TV doctor with 4 million viewers, is now directly in the cross-hairs of at least one ambitious medical student, who told Vox that he’s increasingly concerned with the level of “pseudo health advice.”
Benjamin Mazer, a third-year medical student at the University of Rochester, is now looking to enlist state and national medical associations to combat any of the potential negative impacts on public health.
In Mazer’s mind, just how bad is it?
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“Dr. Oz has something like 4-million viewers a day,” Mazer told Vox. “The average physician doesn’t see a million patients in their lifetime. That’s why organized medicine should be taking action.”
So Mazer has now taken his efforts to the Medical Society of the State of New York, where Dr. Oz is licensed, and is requesting “that they consider regulating the advice of famous physicians in the media.”
In Mazer’s view, TV health advice should be treated the same way expert testimony is treated – with a firm establishment of truthfulness in place of what he bluntly called “medical quackery,” specifically with Dr. Oz in mind.
Check out the full Q&A by Vox – Mazer is on a mission. What say you, Dr. Oz? And what say you, non-TV physicians?