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Why Oprah Needs To Condemn Dr. Oz

For all our sakes

Ezinne Ukoha
7 min readDec 6, 2021

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I’ve been very vocal about my utter disdain for the deplorable trinity of faux-doctors who weaponize their powered statuses at the expense of vulnerable followers falling for the okey-doke. These televised scams have made these sinister characters with questionable credentials very wealthy celebrities with bloated egos.

These three scammers have profited from the dangerous habit of practicing medicine on television, thereby endangering the dispositions of fragile victims of real-life trauma who are tricked into selling their viable pain and suffering to the highest bidder.

It’s no coincidence that these over-exposed media personalities have been embroiled in a slew of controversies that serve as further proof of why the concept of doling out unverified medical advice to boost network ratings is a terrible idea.

The most recent scandal was activated after all three doctors negligently shared dangerously misleading contributions to the heightened climate of fear and confusion during the early days of the coronavirus.

In April 2020, Dr. Phil, one of Oprah’s notable mentees, made an infamous appearance on Laura Ingraham’s primetime show on Fox News, where he negligently criticized the nationwide mandates of social distancing. The talk show host was adamantly…

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