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Trump’s Gorka pick met with outrage: he’s ‘as dangerous as he is unqualified’
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As much as I hate it, Dr. Oz is actually an extremely capable cardiothoracic surgeon. Like top of his field level. He just turned into a piece of shit grifter. Him being a capable physician makes him more dangerous IMHO, he can do a lot more damage with that knowledge.
Surgeons being skillful assholes isn't an uncommon thing.
They always think their expertise in one area makes them an expert at everything, when in reality they are below average.
Was. He let his license lapse over a decade ago and the last several years before that, he designed medical equipment and promoted snake oil on TV.
Like Ben Carson, Mehmet Oz might have been a great surgeon, but now he's a filthy rich net negative to society like most if not all of the other Trump picks.
And also like Ben Carson, he's living proof that you can be extremely well educated and skilled and still be a fucking idiot.
True, he is no longer a practicing surgeon. But I think it's disingenuous to not recognize the fact that he was an actual medical professional who was exceptionally good at what he did. It makes what he has been doing that much more evil. He knows exactly what he's peddling and just how much harm it is doing.
Except, being a surgeon, he hasn't had much to do with the medicinal side of things since med school. It was never his area of expertise.
Hell, I bet people still in training as a pharmacist know more about what drugs work and don't work than Mehmet ever did.
That's very true. Although he is more informed on the topic than your average person. In other words, he knows enough to know better, but fame and fortune are some powerful drugs.
He's also one of those hydroxychloriquine-cures-covid assholes, which should disqualify him alone imo.
He's been a snake oil salesman for at least a decade, perfect choice toanage medical bidgets