Someone needs to teach Dave Holmes about the quiet car http://fortune.com/2014/09/17/amt…

I think people are confused. Black and brown Americans are upset at what happened with Mike Brown, and Tamir Rice, and Eric Garner, and John Crawford (who really are just symbols for a larger problem), not because of the individual cops who killed them, because the process of justice illustrated that it's broken.…

I've been at a *lot* of the NYC protests and never heard that chant. I'm not saying no one ever uttered those words, but I've seriously never heard it.

Rene Zellweger's role in Cold Mountain was actually biracial in the book and the central conceit of the book was that Inman deserts in part because believes that the war is about letting rich whites keep their slaves but the movie focuses exclusively on his love for Ada, and casts almost no black characters.

You're not actually responding to what I wrote, but reacting to your own past.

Except that I clearly laid out that I found good ones. And my examples weren't all about me...

Thanks! I'll check it out.

Fair point, but I think (in my country) if the quality of care wasn't frequently so inhumane, and if doctors didn't position themselves as all knowing, but rather as relationship partners in your health, people would be less inclined to trust tv quacks.

Fair. But it mostly seems like he dispenses advice that won't actually help.

I'm in NYC. Without detailing every doctor I've listed (and some I don't know because they weren't my doctor) I can say that both the neurologist who said it was in my head and the one who identified the problem were part of NYU Langone a nationally ranked healthcare network.

Sorry, this guy is too anti-acupuncture for my tastes. Acupuncture/Trigger point dry needling where the only things that got my Myofascial trigger point to release enough to where physical therapy and the muscle relaxants I was on actually worked. If not for a throwaway comment from my Physical Therapist that they…

My point is that Dr. Oz is at the level of his profession:

I wasn't the OP so I never said I had celiac's or couldn't tolerate gluten... I was pointing out that your snarky comment was kind of off base.

I live in NYC and all of my doctors but one have been part of respected networks. Ironically the 'good' neurologist is in the same network as the 'bad' one. I can't speak to the quality of everyone else's doctors, but all of mine were generally considered 'experts.' I think the issue is that doctors rarely get…

I have a legit medically verified histamine allergy (not intolerance - allergy), but I don't get seasonal allergies. And it's not mild. Yet I can eat lots of histamine rich foods - wine, salami, sausage. But if I bite into an eggplant it's like biting into 1000 needles, and while I can eat early summer tomatoes in…

As someone who has had some pretty awful interactions with medical practitioners, including semi-invasive procedures that required sedation despite the fact that my symptoms didn't totally fit (yes, this is after the second opinion) who aren't on TV, I'm going to say straight up that Dr. Oz isn't that bad.

If you think about the resources and people it takes to farm cotton, harvest it, spin it into thread, dye it, weave that into fabric, design it, cut it, assemble, and sew it, and ship it to you, you cannot reasonably think that it only costs $20 bucks to bring that to you. Someone (more than someone) is getting…

In NYC a lot of fast food type places do free samples. And my favorite restaurant gives you wine while you wait (no reservations).

Bloodletting is back! Well sort of, more like leeches: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/bl…

A lot of countries don't fluoridate their water. Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Scotland Iceland, and Italy.