Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Bullshit: The Ultimate in Patient-Based Medicine

"Medicine hasn't figured out how to weed out the fringe operators, and celebrities haven't figured out that it isn't good for their health to have a doctor who simply caters to their whims."
-- Arthur Caplan, director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania, on the recurring relationship between quacks and celebrities - because no professional will just do whatever a famous believer asks - complying with the star's requests until they eventually end up disfigured, demoralized, and/or dead, in TIME.

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