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  • Quinnipiac University Staff Visit CESI to Explore Training and Academic Opportunities

    Quinnipiac University Staff Visit CESI to Explore Training and Academic Opportunities

    Quinnipiac College faculty and personnel frequented the CESI (Center for Education and learning, Simulation and Innovation) Wednesday to find out more about what the middle offers, and brainstorm approaches students could advantage from the partnership that was introduced previously this calendar year with Hartford Health care.

    QU Visit

    In January, Hartford Health care and Quinnipiac University declared a partnership to build the workforce of tomorrow and improve pupil pipelines throughout a wide array of professions. This 7 days, leaders also reviewed investigate possibilities and how the two businesses can work together in those people endeavors.

    “This can be a large-ranging partnership and I see it creating as we go. It is amazingly exciting and we are tremendous fortuitous to be building this partnership jointly,” said Quinnipiac University Provost Debra Leibowitz.

    About 40 individuals attended the tour Wednesday, which involved an introduction about the diverse approaches CESI supports the health care market domestically, regionally and globally by way of partnerships with brands and vendors. CESI has a twin mission to support teach physicians and nurses though also supporting marketplace consumers with training.

    The tour broke into smaller groups to explore unique areas of the center, including the Da Vinci robotic method, laparoscopic surgical procedures schooling spot, SimMom supply room with SimMom, new child and toddler mannequins, a VR demonstration, the CESI studio, a demonstration of trauma mannequins, a technique room for intubation and central line exercise, and a model affected person area with a mannequin and monitors.

    The tour also incorporated non-professional medical college students, with discussions of how unique academic applications could target on diverse options – this kind of as no matter whether computer system programming college students could support with the virtual reality coding, or small business college students could work with billing computer software education or growth.

    Before the tour, a online video of the the latest Catastrophe Day training was shown, which could enable educate media students to take care of a crisis by environment a press conference, crafting push releases and monitoring social media posts. QU learners have been included as volunteer victims in the workout, which was teaching for Crisis Division interns to learn how to manage a mass casualty catastrophe, and also provided a simulated explosion and domestic dispute.

    Mike Midgley, an anatomy professor in the Division of Biology, stated the tour was really beneficial. “Our pupils want palms-on choices for mastering and all of this is pretty interactive,” he mentioned. “They can see treatment choices and see how it works.”

    QU Visit

    Stacy Spiro, the OBGYN Clerkship Director, explained there is a large amount of opportunity for resident or palms-on nursing schooling. Even though she had frequented the heart in the earlier, she hadn’t seen all the unique teaching rooms. “This will be these a good partnership, with possibilities for our college students to see much more, and be far more knowledgeable of unique work possibilities,” she claimed.

    Rocco Orlando, MD, FACS, chief academic officer for Hartford Healthcare, claimed the tour and brainstorming session supplied a myriad of alternatives. “It is almost nothing I did not anticipate, but there are big possibilities for matchmaking and expansion,” he explained.

    The partnership with Quinnipiac also consists of state-of-the-art, coordinated on-campus treatment by way of Hartford HealthCare’s Campus Care software. This will offer superior high quality health and fitness and wellness services to take care of students’ complete care wants, from physical and psychological effectively-being to athletic training for the university’s Division I athletes.


  • Elon University / Today at Elon / May 18 update from Vice President for Student Life Jon Dooley

    Elon University / Today at Elon / May 18 update from Vice President for Student Life Jon Dooley

    Vice President for Scholar Lifetime Jon Dooley is supplying typical electronic mail update messages to maintain college students and mothers and fathers informed about the initiatives for a healthier Spring Semester.

    Be aware: This is the ultimate weekly electronic mail update from Vice President of Pupil Life Jon Dooley of the 2021-22 tutorial year. 

    Dear Pupils, College, and Staff,

    Welcome to the closing weekly Healthier Elon email update for the tutorial calendar year.

    Summary of updates in this message

    • Standing updates
    • Graduation info
    • Healthy Elon insurance policies for spring and summer season
    • Vaccination and booster data

    Standing updates

    The college dashboard is up to date on the Nutritious Elon site each and every weekday morning.

    Graduation information

    Normal seating configurations will be used for indoor Graduation occasions this 7 days individuals with health and fitness considerations could wish to don a mask in these venues. Tonight’s graduate Graduation ceremony and Friday’s undergraduate Graduation ceremonies will also be accessible through livestream. The total schedule of Commencement 7 days activities is out there on the Graduation internet site.

    Asymptomatic tests in the McCoy Commons (Oaks Neighborhood) will be readily available for pupils, school, and team for the duration of frequently scheduled hrs by Thursday, Could 19.

    Healthier Elon guidelines for spring and summer

    Make sure you browse the May 3 e mail announcement to the group from Dr. Jeff Stein and the Nutritious Elon Committee pertaining to latest campus protocols and procedures for masking, testing, and quarantine/isolation through Wednesday, Might 25.

    The Might 3 announcement also includes a quantity of specific alterations to campus procedures that will grow to be productive on Thursday, Could 26. Asymptomatic screening will be open in McCoy Commons for minimized hours through the summer.

    Vaccination and booster details

    Elon continues to have to have college students, and to strongly stimulate staff members, to get and post documentation of COVID-19 vaccination and booster. New and returning college students will be notified in early summer time through email about vaccination demands and documentation for future tutorial yr.

    Supplemental data

    The Infectious Sickness Response Group will continue to keep track of COVID-19 assistance from wellbeing industry experts and be completely ready to reinstate any important mitigation measures. We go on to establish suggestions, insurance policies and structures to aid college operations and community health and fitness, in gentle of lessons learned about the previous two a long time.

    On May well 26, the Healthful Elon internet site will be adjusted to a single webpage with essential information and announcements about COVID-19, along with inbound links to campus methods that are obtainable for health and wellness challenges. A url to the new webpage will be situated in the footer of all Elon College webpages.

    The Nutritious Elon facts line (336-278-2020) and the [email protected] and [email protected] email addresses will be suspended on May well 26 phone calls will be forwarded to the campus switchboard. College student Health Expert services and quite a few offices throughout campus, together with College student Care and Outreach, Mother or father Engagement, New Scholar Plans, and Human Methods will go on to serve as information and facts means for concerns.

    This is the last e mail update for the academic 12 months. Thank you for looking at these messages and being educated about the effects of the pandemic at Elon College. As necessary, you will acquire essential pandemic-connected information and facts by way of your Elon electronic mail account through the summer months. Make sure you verify your campus e mail frequently so you can be conscious of updates and information that may perhaps influence you.

    Ideal wishes for a harmless, healthy, and restful summer season.

    Dr. Jon Dooley

    Vice President for Student Everyday living

  • Columbia University finally cuts ties with America’s Quack Dr. Oz

    Columbia University finally cuts ties with America’s Quack Dr. Oz

    It’s never been a secret that we at SBM are not fans of Dr. Mehmet Oz. It’s hard not to have encountered him before, given his fame and now his full embrace of President Trump for his campaign to become the Republican nominee for the Senate from Pennsylvania. As you might recall, Dr. Oz was a young rising star in academic cardiothoracic surgery in the 1990s, and even I have to admit that his achievements back then were impressive. Then something happened. Dr. Oz embraced reiki, founded Columbia University’s integrative medicine program, and ultimately, after having met Oprah Winfrey and been featured on her show periodically as “America’s Doctor” (which led me to start referring to him as “America’s Quack” beginning years ago), hosted The Dr. Oz Show, which ran for nearly 13 seasons; that is, until Dr. Oz cut the last season short a few months ago and ended his show to run for the Senate for Pennsylvania. Of course, Dr. Oz being the long-time quack and grifter that he was, it didn’t faze him in the least that he had lived in New Jersey, not Pennsylvania, and worked in Manhattan for decades; he voted absentee in 2020 using his wife’s parents’ address in the Philadelphia suburbs. When last we discussed him on SBM, unsurprisingly Dr. Oz was pulling a common quack trick by challenging his critics (in this case, specifically Dr. Anthony Fauci) to a “debate”.

    Those of us who promote science-based medicine and try to counter quackery and antivaccine misinformation have long lamented how Dr. Oz, despite promoting misinformation about health for over a decade, maintained his positions at Columbia University as professor and vice-chair of surgery at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, as well as the medical director of the Integrative Medicine Program (i.e., Columbia’s quackademic medicine) program at New York-Presbyterian Hospital. It’s a lament that we tended to repeat almost any time Dr. Oz hit a new low in promoting quackery (which was depressingly not infrequent). We kept wondering why Columbia would continue to employ him in such high level leadership positions for so many years, despite his increasingly awful reputation in medicine for promoting quacks like Joe Mercola and even Mike Adams. That’s why a spate of stories that appeared over the last couple of days caught my eye:

    Given Dr. Oz’s history, I thought it would be interesting to discuss what happened in relation to his longstanding leadership positions at Columbia University, calls for Columbia to disassociate itself from him over the years, and his general history of having promoted dietary supplement scams, cell phone-cancer pseudoscience, homeopathy, psychic mediums, and other quackery going back decades.

    Dr. Oz and Columbia: What happened?

    The first story about this appears to have been the Huffington Post report, published in January:

    TV doctor-turned-politician Mehmet Oz has apparently retired from clinical practice and his faculty role at Columbia University since announcing his Senate run in Pennsylvania.

    Oz, who once served as vice chair of the surgery department, now holds the title of “professor emeritus of surgery” at the Ivy League school.

    The title reflects the fact that Oz, 61, no longer sees patients, according to a Columbia spokesperson, but it’s unclear how long he’s been retired from his clinical practice. Oz didn’t have the emeritus title as recently as last month, just after he launched his campaign.

    An emeritus status is conferred to retired professors and faculty members “in recognition of distinguished service to the university and eminence in their discipline,” according to the university.

    The university didn’t respond to questions about when the change took place or how involved Oz still is with its medical faculty. Oz is also now a special lecturer in the surgery department.

    More:

    Columbia University’s Irving Medical Center maintains a page for Oz, listing an office for him at its Washington Heights campus and noting that he specializes as a board-certified cardiac and thoracic surgeon.

    But as of early December, Oz was still listed as a professor of surgery and as director of the Integrative Medicine Center — a department that, according to its description, would combine traditional medicine with alternative practices such as acupuncture, meditation and yoga. It’s unclear what happened with that role.

    I was actually surprised at how long ago this news article was published, as I thought I had become a bit of an expert on Dr. Oz and his quackery. Yet, for some reason, before the more recent reports (the other three in the list, all of which were published over the weekend), I had never heard about the change in his status at Columbia University, nor had I known that he had stopped seeing patients at least a few years ago. Indeed, it made me wonder whether the very convenient resurrection of the Huffington Post story two weeks before the May 17 Pennsylvania primary election next week was the work of one of Oz’ Senate rivals. Whatever the reason the story resurfaced, I’ll mention again how I’ve often wondered how Dr. Oz could hold those leadership positions at Columbia and host a daily hourlong syndicated TV show with an insatiable maw for new material, and still maintain competence at a surgical specialty that, even among surgical specialties, is very technically demanding. It requires regular practice to be able to stay slick and smooth sewing those little blood vessels together so that the anastomosis stays open and doesn’t clot, for instance.

    It’s also interesting to note that if you click on the original Columbia webpage link for Dr. Oz mentioned in the HuffPo report, the page is no longer there, and the Wayback Machine at Archive.org gave me an error message searching for it. Interestingly, his former page at the Department of Surgery at Columbia returns an “access denied” message, but the Wayback Machine does return a version of it as late as December.

    As mentioned in the article, it would make sense if Dr. Oz had been kicked up to emeritus status, as that is frequently what happens when long time faculty members retire. It allows them to keep a title, continue to have access to university email and library services, while maintaining some connection to the university for teaching or part-time research. (Indeed, I hope that when I finally retire I can become an emeritus, as one of my partners did a couple of years ago.) However, apparently the HuffPo article got that part wrong. Although a January 26 addendum to the story states that Dr. Oz “became a professor emeritus and special lecturer in 2018,” the story in The Daily Beast notes:

    His name no longer appears in website searches for doctors with the school’s Irving Medical Center. A Columbia faculty listing still says Oz has an office, along with the role of special lecturer—though not “professor emeritus.” But as with a handful of other names on the list, Oz’s listing no longer links to his faculty page, as it did one week before he launched his campaign. (Nearly every other faculty member without a link is no longer affiliated with the medical center; one of them died last year.)

    The outgoing message on Oz’s voicemail for the listed number is quite dated, directing callers to medical services when Oz stopped taking patients four years ago. The message also advertises audience tickets to his now-extinct daytime TV show.

    The timeline I’m getting here is that four years ago Dr. Oz’s position at Columbia changed. Whether he stepped down or was pushed out, apparently he no longer had a leadership position at the medical school, nor did he even (again, apparently) continue to have a position as a full professor in the department of surgery there. What truly happened in 2018 is likely known only to Columbia University administration and Dr. Oz himself. What these reports do reveal is that, whatever happened, both the university and Dr. Oz kept it on the down-low, which led to the headline of The Daily Beast story on Saturday, ‘Chickenshit’ Move: Columbia Quietly Cuts Ties With Dr. Oz:

    Dr. Daniel Summers, a Boston-area pediatrician and writer, called Columbia’s stealth purge a “chickenshit” move.

    “Their handling of his status there is a massive blot on their reputation. What a chickenshit thing to do,” Summers told The Daily Beast.

    Dr. Summers is not wrong, of course. It was a rather cowardly way of cutting ties with Dr. Oz after he had been there for more than three decades, during most of which he promoted his brand and quackery. However, even after that, Dr. Oz remained a presence on the Columbia website. Knowing how university websites tend to work the way that I do, I rather suspect that the usual slow (or nonexistent) process of updating Columbia’s website to reflect Dr. Oz’s true status ran headlong into the news coverage of Dr. Oz’s impending Senate campaign that began in late 2021, leading to a panicked scrubbing of the website. In other words, it’s unlikely that the most recent scrubbing was anything nefarious, but Dr. Summers does have a point that, if Columbia and Dr. Oz severed ties four years ago, it was rather slimy to have done it so secretly that no one really noticed until Dr. Oz decided to run for the Senate. That, of course, assumes that this severance occurred in 2018 and not a few months ago.

    As bioethicist Art Caplan notes in a story from The Guardian yesterday:

    The prominent medical ethicist Dr Arthur Caplan, who in 2014 accused Oz of “promoting fairy dust”, told the Guardian he was not surprised Columbia had “quietly eliminated” Oz.

    “They won’t have a press conference in the middle of this guy running for the Senate saying they were throwing him out … it could be seen as trying to influence an election, it could be risking bad blood should he become a senator,” said Caplan, professor and founding head of the Grossman School of Medicine Division of Medical Ethics at New York University.

    “My question becomes, ‘What took so long?’ He’s been a huge danger to public health in the US and around the world for a long time with respect to quack cures for Covid and touting quackery to treat diseases.

    “I was among the voices saying he had to be removed years ago. And I still think it’s the right thing to do because he really has forfeited credibility as a doctor. Whether that will matter in terms of the election, we shall see.

    “I think it should, I doubt it will.”

    All of this is true but assumes that this severance occurred a few months ago, when Dr. Oz first decided to run for the Senate. If it happened in 2018 and the Columbia website just never reflected it until now, then the reasons mentioned by Dr. Caplan don’t apply. Whatever happened, though, I think it’s useful to relate Dr. Oz’s history at Columbia and wonder why Columbia defended him and maintained him in multiple leadership positions at its medical school for so long. I also can’t help but briefly relate an incident very much like what Dr. Caplan described from years ago when a group of doctors did try to shame Columbia into doing something about Dr. Oz, an effort that backfired spectacularly.

    The long and quacky road of Dr. Oz

    As I said at the beginning of this post, I’ve long been extremely critical of Dr. Oz, even having coined the term “America’s Quack” to describe him, an obvious riff on Oprah’s name for him, “America’s Doctor.” Of course, Dr. Oz didn’t catch Oprah’s eye for just being a rising star in academic surgery in the 1990s. Rather, long before Oprah ever noticed him, Dr. Oz had made a name for himself by embracing pseudoscience and mysticism in the form of reiki. However, his embrace of pseudoscience goes back to long before even the 1990s, back to his childhood, as related by Julia Belluz at Vox in 2015, in which she noted the disconnect between his promising start and what he had become:

    Oz has achieved some of the greatest scientific accomplishments of his career at Columbia. While a resident there, he was the four-time winner of the prestigious Blakemore research prize, which goes to the most outstanding surgery resident. He now holds 11 patents for inventing methods and devices involved in heart surgeries and transplants. This includes helping to research and develop the left ventricular assist device, or LVAD, which helps keep people alive while they’re awaiting a heart transplant. Oz had a hand in turning the hospital’s LVAD program into one of the biggest and most active in the world.

    Dr. Oz has been a rare beast on one respect. It’s pretty uncommon these days for an academic physician or surgeon to spend his entire career after medical school at one institution, but that’s what Dr. Oz appears to have done, starting with his residency, after which he became junior faculty and made his way up the academic ranks. Whatever the shape of his career, I always imagine what could have been if Dr. Oz had not been seduced by the siren call of quackery. Can you imagine the scientific and surgical accomplishments that he might have made in an alternate timeline in which, instead of embracing reiki and then other forms of nonsense, he had stuck to science-based medicine and research? Unfortunately, though, as Belluz notes, the “roots of Oz’s experimentation with alternative techniques go all the way back to his childhood, and that his departures from evidence-based medicine have gotten more extreme as he’s become more famous”. Although he had had exposure to quackery as a child in Turkey, his turn to the dark side appears to have really accelerated after he met his wife:

    There was another influence, too. While he was studying for his medical degree and MBA at the University of Pennsylvania, Oz met his wife, the actress Lisa (then Lemole). Lisa’s dad was also a cardiothoracic surgeon who embraced alternative medicine and Eastern mysticism, and, according to a profile in the New York Times, her mother “believed fervently” in homeopathy.

    In 1994, Oz launched the Cardiac Complementary Care Center at Columbia-Presbyterian with a certified perfusionist and registered nurse, Jery Whitworth. The center, one of the first of its kind in the nation, was “created, in part, as a response to consumer demand for comprehensive care,” Oz and Whitworth wrote in a 1998 scholarly article.

    I also note that Lisa Oz herself became a reiki master, and later in the 1990s:

    They also used audiotapes to try to subconsciously relax patients before surgery and brought reiki — or “energy medicine” — into the operating room. Reiki, an ancient Japanese healing art, has never been shown in scientific studies to alter the outcomes of patients. One high-quality study on the effect of reiki on pain in women after C-sections showed that it had no effect. Science-based thinkers have wondered whether it’s ethical to continue studying reiki, given that we know it works no better than a placebo and we may be diverting funds from treatments that could actually help people.

    Oz’s work with the center drew critics. One Mount Sinai physician told the New York Times in 1995: “I call practitioners of fraud practitioners of fraud. It’s my feeling that the [center] has been promoting fraudulent alternatives as genuine.”

    I can’t help but note that Belluz cited an article by Steve Novella and me that questioned whether clinical trials of “magic” (like reiki and homeopathy) could ever be ethical. (Spoiler alert: We concluded that the answer was—and is—no.) I also can’t help but note that the problem of academic medical centers legitimizing quackery under the guise of “complementary and alternative medicine” (CAM) or “integrative medicine” is nowhere near unique to Columbia, although Columbia’s integrative medicine center under Dr. Oz’s leadership was one of the “pioneers” (if you can call it that) of “integrating” quackery into medicine. Just look at the examples of the Cleveland Clinic, UC-Irvine, UCSF, Georgetown, the University of Michigan, and many others, if you don’t believe me. Dr. Oz, unfortunately, is merely the most famous example (among the general public, at least) of physicians “integrating” mysticism, pseudoscience, quackery, and just plain grift into medicine.

    In any event, instead of Dr. Oz continuing his research prowess to provide actual advancements in cardiothoracic surgery and cardiology, instead we got the huckster Oz, America’s Quack. But why? Michael Specter once noted in 2013, quoting Dr. Oz:

    “I would take us all back a thousand years, when our ancestors lived in small villages and there was always a healer in that village—and his job wasn’t to give you heart surgery or medication but to help find a safe place for conversation.”

    Oz went on, “Western medicine has a firm belief that studying human beings is like studying bacteria in petri dishes. Doctors do not want questions from their patients; it’s easier to tell them what to do than to listen to what they say. But people are on a serpentine path through life, and that is the way it is supposed to be. All I am trying to do is put a couple of road signs out there. I sit on that set every day, and that is what I am focussing on. The road signs.”

    As I’ve long noted since I read that article, back when our ancestors lived in small villages, medicine consisted of shamans, priests, and magicians who couldn’t actually do much for anything other than relatively minor physical injuries, for which they could bind up wounds, sew up lacerations, and splint fractures. Then, they could do little or nothing to treat serious infections and other diseases. If people got better, it was usually because the disease was self-limited or the victims were fortunate. Oz also appears to buy into the false dichotomy that drives me crazy whenever I hear it: Namely that in order to be a good “holistic” doctor, you have to embrace the quackery that is much of what is now referred to as CAM or “integrative medicine”. My retort is always that you don’t have to become a quack to be “holistic”. I also question Oz’s romantic view of these “healers”. It sounds all too much like the “noble savage” myth, a case of Oz falling for romantic primitivism, which he seems to want to fuse with modern medicine.

    If you want to know why Dr. Oz promotes so much quackery, I’ll refer back to Specter, who explained it by letting Dr. Oz speak for himself and asking Oz how he can feature on his show people like Joe Mercola, who are anathema to science and promote pure quackery. This passage is what I view as the central exchange in Specter’s entire article, as to me it revealed exactly why Dr. Oz has been the way he is and why he promotes the quackery he promotes:

    “I’m usually earnestly honest and modest about what I think we’ve accomplished,” Oz told me when we discussed his choice of guests. “If I don’t have Mercola on my show, I have thrown away the biggest opportunity that I have been given.”

    I had no idea what he meant. How was it Oz’s “biggest opportunity” to introduce a guest who explicitly rejects the tenets of science? “The fact that I am a professor—one of the youngest professors ever—at Columbia, and that I earned my stripes writing hundreds of papers in peer-reviewed journals,” Oz began. “I know the system. I’ve been on those panels. I’m one of those guys who could talk about Mercola and not lose everybody. And so if I don’t talk to him I have abdicated my responsibility, because the currency that I deal in is trust, and it is trust that has been given to me by Oprah and by Columbia University, and by an audience that has watched over six hundred shows.”

    I was still puzzled. “Either data works or it doesn’t,” I said. “Science is supposed to answer, or at least address, those questions. Surely you don’t think that all information is created equal?”

    Oz sighed. “Medicine is a very religious experience,” he said. “I have my religion and you have yours. It becomes difficult for us to agree on what we think works, since so much of it is in the eye of the beholder. Data is rarely clean.” All facts come with a point of view. But his spin on it—that one can simply choose those which make sense, rather than data that happen to be true—was chilling. “You find the arguments that support your data,” he said, “and it’s my fact versus your fact.”

    The problem, of course, is that Mercola was overjoyed to be on The Dr. Oz Show, recognizing it correctly as a great opportunity to promote his brand. Did Dr. Oz point out all the quackery that Mercola promotes? (I think you know the answer to that one.) Worse, it’s clear that Dr. Oz bought into what has become known as the “post-truth” narrative, in which science is just another way of knowing, another religion so to speak—before the term “post-truth” was coined. Sadly, it was all of a piece with Oz’s other stated desires in the article, namely to have healers the way we used to hundreds or thousands of years ago. Many of those healers were shamans or priests, and much of what they did was little more than placebo medicine and faith healing. So for Dr. Oz to pine for a return to that time made perfect sense in the context of his other activities. Of course, I’m sure that Dr. Oz has always imagined that he will “integrate” those ancient healing practices with modern medicine. That’s what “integrative medicine” is, after all.

    The Teflon doctor

    It’s long been clear that Dr. Oz is a huckster, dedicated to being a showman more than he was ever dedicated to science—or even being a “shaman-healer”. That’s why one consistent thread throughout Dr. Oz’s career going back 30 years (at least) is his uncanny ability to promote his brand while defending it quite effectively from attack. Julia Belluz noted that in her article:

    Monique Class, a family nurse practitioner and another former employee of the center, said the media attention negatively affected their work. “It became about Oz. Not about the project. Not about the patients. Not about the work. That all became secondary to his rise to the top.”

    It wasn’t uncommon, Class said, for Oz to say some version of the following to her or to the other employees: “Give me a patient because the cameras are coming in, and tell me what I need to know.”

    Class said, “He was always acting. He didn’t know this patient. He was not connected to this patient. We’d give him a two- or three-minute sound bite and he’d sit there in front of the cameras like he’d done this work and had this deep connection.”

    Which is actually exactly the opposite of what shaman-healers did and also an indication that it’s not about the patients but rather about Dr. Oz and his brand. Shamans actually tried to form attachments to their patients based on their long history of living in the same villages and communities, of which patients and shamans were both part. In contrast, Dr. Oz has long used his patients as steppingstones to become famous, which he justified to Michael Specter thusly:

    One day, I asked Oz whether he minded that many of his medical peers criticized him for following the dictates of daytime television more than the demands of scientific truth. “I have always played offense,” he responded. “So I don’t care what people call me. I used to. I felt that to say I was an entertainer was dismissive. But it is part of what I have to do. I want to get my message across to people who are not going to get it in other ways. And I can’t do that if I am not palatable to the people who watch the show.”

    I’m sure he tells himself the same thing about his decision to become a carpetbagger from New Jersey running for Senate in Pennsylvania, just as he did when he invited Donald Trump to appear on his show before the 2016 election. I’m equally sure that he told himself the same thing back when he started promoting hydroxychloroquine and other unproven treatments for COVID-19 two years ago, when the pandemic was new.

    The perfect example of Dr. Oz’s uncanny ability to defend his brand occurred in 2015, when a group of ten doctors led by Dr. Henry Miller wrote a letter to the Dean of the Faculties of Health Sciences and Medicine at Columbia University arguing that Dr. Mehmet Oz shouldn’t be on the faculty at Columbia University because of his “disdain for science and for evidence-based medicine, as well as baseless and relentless opposition to the genetic engineering of food crops” and “an egregious lack of integrity by promoting quack treatments and cures in the interest of personal financial gain”. The letter produced a fair amount of media attention at the time, but I predicted that it would backfire for a simple reason, which I’ll briefly explain now.

    Of the ten signatories, two were from the Hoover Institution, a conservative think tank based at Stanford University whose fellows tend to be climate change denialists. In other words, it’s an institution whose commitment to science is highly questionable to nonexistent in one area, and it’s attacking Oz for pseudoscience? Two others are affiliated with the American Council on Science and Health (ACSH), a group that is pro-science when that science aligns with industry interests, particularly the pesticide industry. ACSH’s late president Elizabeth Whelan was known for dismissing any concerns about various chemicals as potential health hazards as “chemophobia” and even referring to “chemophobia” as an “emotional, psychiatric problem,” which is not very skeptical at all. Indeed, as I’ve mentioned before, a few years ago, when ACSH invited me to be on its board of advisors, I turned it down because I perceive ACSH as going too far in the other direction (not to mention the problem of its behaving largely like an industry shill) to the point that it takes the germ of a reasonable idea (that there’s too much fear mongering about “chemicals”) and takes a despicable turn with it by implicitly likening concerns about chemical pollutants and other chemicals that might cause health problems to mental illness by labeling them “chemophobia”. More recently, ACSH demolished whatever credibility it might have had as being about science more than politics when a week after President Trump’s inauguration ACSH President Hank Campbell published an article on its website heartily endorsing Trump’s picks for key science and medical posts. (I note that the article is no longer there, producing an Error 503 message of “This article is temporarily unavailable. Please check back in a few days,” but thankfully the almighty Wayback Machine at Archive.org has preserved it.)

    I bet you can see where this went. Dr. Oz is nothing if not masterful at propaganda. He struck back on his show, sighing heavily about “ten mysterious doctors” with industry ties to for trying to shut him up because he criticized genetically modified organisms (GMOs), before predictably attacking the ACSH using predictable lines of attack, many summarized in a TIME interview with Dr. Oz that was so pro-Oz that I thought someone from his staff had written it:

    With a few clicks and some simple searches, a remarkable web of intrigue emerged—one that the mainstream media has completely missed. The lead author, Henry I. Miller, appears to have a history as a pro-biotech scientist, and was mentioned in early tobacco-industry litigation as a potential ally to industry. He also furthered the battle in California to block GMO labeling—a cause that I have been vocal about supporting. Another of the letter signees, Gilbert Ross, was found guilty after trial of 13 counts of fraud related to Medicaid. He is now executive director of American Council on Science and Health, a group that has reportedly received donations from big tobacco and food and agribusiness companies, among others. Another four of the 10 authors are also linked to this organization.

    The attacks were particularly devastating, as cheesy as they were on his show, because they were mostly true. ACSH is basically an astroturf organization that represents industry interests, particularly for the food and pesticide industries. Its stances on vaccines, alternative medicine, and GMOs do align largely with those of SBM, but also largely for the wrong reasons (particularly GMOs and pesticides). Basically, the stunt resulted in a lot of attention from the press on ACSH’s more unsavory elements and history, to the point that even Ross himself regretted signing the document, saying in an interview:

    “Given the mistake I made more than 20 years ago, I now recognize that I should not have added my name to (the) letter,” Dr Ross is quoted as saying. “Even though I believed in the letter’s content — to focus attention on the often-questionable medical advice Dr Oz dispenses on TV — I see that by doing so it only opened me up to personal criticism. It also diverted necessary attention away from challenging many of Dr Oz’s unscientific claims. My involvement was solely based on trying to protect America’s public health.”

    Ya think?

    I also can’t help but note that one of the signatories of the article is someone who’s become rather famous since the pandemic hit, Dr. Scott Atlas, the neuroradiologist with no expertise in infectious disease, epidemiology, or public health and was associated with the conservative Hoover Institution think tank who headed up President Trump’s coronavirus task force in 2020. He was known for advocating for fewer interventions to slow the spread of the virus, consistent with his admiration for the Great Barrington Declaration and it’s “let COVID rip” strategy to achieve “natural herd immunity”.

    Currently, the polls that I’ve seen show the contest for the GOP nomination for Pennsylvania Senate to be close, with some polls showing Oz leading and others showing him behind, but none by that much and the overall trend being that Dr. Oz is slightly behind. It’s still possible that Oz could win the primary.

    Still, if politics is the reason that Columbia finally severed ties with Dr. Oz (or at least led them to finally fire him from his leadership positions), all I can say is that it’s sad that it took politics, rather than Dr. Oz’s long promotion of quackery and pseudoscience to motivate the administration there to do the right thing, something that should have been done at least a decade ago. Unfortunately, if Dr. Oz overcomes the odds and becomes the next Senator from Pennsylvania, he’ll be more powerful than he’s ever been and able to influence health care policy in a major way. Even if he loses (as I suspect that he will), I’d be willing to bet that it won’t be long before he resurfaces to quack again.

  • Nursing students promote healthy lifestyle at FIT Camp: Indiana University Kokomo

    Nursing students promote healthy lifestyle at FIT Camp: Indiana University Kokomo

    KOKOMO, Ind. — A healthful way of life begins with healthier habits – no issue the age.

    That is what Match Camp is all about this summer time – selling overall health and wellness among young children ages 6 to 10.

    College and college students at Indiana College Kokomo will produce a enjoyment and instructional ambiance during the weeklong day camp that teaches about physical fitness and good diet. College student-athletes will provide as mentors, sharing expertise and presenting up some substantial-fives. The camp is arranged by the University of Nursing and Allied Wellness Professions.

    “In health and fitness care, we’re looking for means to be proactive in advertising nutritious living and wellness, fairly than just reacting in dealing with illnesses,” said Samantha Fouts, clinical assistant professor of nursing, who is leading this year’s camp.

    The camp will take position from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. starting Monday, June 13, by way of Friday, June 17, with drop off at the Kelley College student Center on the IU Kokomo campus. Price tag is $40 for the 7 days, with economic help out there via camperships. On the net registration can be discovered at go.iu.edu/4ltg.

    “Knowing that diabetes and coronary heart disease and hypertension are some of the frequent continual circumstances we see in our grownup inhabitants, if we can access the children previously and educate them superior means to boost wellbeing in their personal lives, hopefully above time we can decrease some of the wellness complications we see in our adult populations,” Fouts explained.

    The camp has experienced an influence, with far more than 6,700 children attending given that it was started in 1997 as an educational application for people with asthma and/or diabetes. It later on expanded to include things like healthful living, and wholly shifted aim to wellness and wellness in 2017. Extra than 300 nursing learners have served as camp counselors.

    Fouts noted that CDC information displays advancement — Indiana used to have nearly 37 p.c of children considered to be overweight or chubby, based mostly on excess weight and top. At the moment, 30 p.c are in that selection.

    “There are advancements staying designed, but we even now have quite a bit of perform to do,” she mentioned.

    Pupils in a summer time pediatric nursing course will produce diet classes primarily based on the My Plate program, to educate how to choose wholesome foodstuff for a well balanced eating plan. There will also be a great deal of bodily exercise. IU Kokomo pupil athletes will guide game titles and drills for the campers for 90 minutes to two hrs of every working day.

    “I know our athletes will appear in with a target on educating their activity, but it even even more boosts the camp by just giving the young ones a probability to interact with them,” she extra.

    A reward to the method is that individuals can positively affect their family members by having residence what they’ve realized — maybe suggesting a household stroll to get anyone active or inquiring for fruits and veggies they’ve tried at camp.

    The nursing pupils who guide camp also benefit, learning how to advocate for wellness and use their competencies to gain some others.

    “It’s crucial that our faculty has a voice in the local community,” she claimed. “We have a great deal of understanding and expertise we can share. It’s vital that our pupils get out there and use the awareness and capabilities they’ve learned in college to positively aid and encourage health in our group.”

    For far more facts, check out iuk.edu/nursing-allied-health/summer season-camp or get in touch with Fouts at 765-455-9307.

    Education is Crucial at Indiana University Kokomo.

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