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by jrh3 450 days ago
Thank you for sharing this side of the story so well. The truth is that the AMA keeps the quacks out and standards high.
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Dr. Oz is a huge quack but also a very accomplished doctor, how did he get past the AMA?

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6167233/

I don't know if I would go that far. Every time my wife goes to a specialist, they just declare her a medical mystery and move on. Our primary care doctor is awesome though.

My wife spent years going to different doctors trying to figure out what was going on with her back. For years, different doctors would just tell her, "you must just be starting your period or something." 5 years of that, she finally found a doctor who actually looked at her and listened to her, did some testing and came back with an answer that she has some arthritis.