TY - JOUR
T1 - The case of Dr. Oz
T2 - Ethics, evidence, and does professional self-regulation work?
AU - Tilburt, Jon C.
AU - Allyse, Megan
AU - Hafferty, Frederic W.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 American Medical Association. All rights reserved.
PY - 2017/2
Y1 - 2017/2
N2 - Dr. Mehmet Oz is widely known not just as a successful media personality donning the title “America's 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 profession's 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 profession's presumptive endorsement.
AB - Dr. Mehmet Oz is widely known not just as a successful media personality donning the title “America's 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 profession's 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 profession's presumptive endorsement.
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U2 - 10.1001/journalofethics.2017.19.2.msoc1-1702
DO - 10.1001/journalofethics.2017.19.2.msoc1-1702
M3 - Article
C2 - 28225701
AN - SCOPUS:85015604396
SN - 2376-6980
VL - 19
SP - 199
EP - 206
JO - AMA journal of ethics
JF - AMA journal of ethics
IS - 2
ER -