Dr. Oz Selling ‘Fairy Dust,’ Says Medical Ethicist

June 23, 2014

(CBC) – In an interview with CBC’s The Lang & O’Leary Exchange, Caplan said Dr. Oz was “getting too far down the road of non-traditional medicine, alternative medicine and then even further into unproven, even shyster medicine.” Caplan said the doctor, a reputable cardiothoracic surgeon, is raising the kinds of doubts among his peers that could tarnish his reputation. “He could have some legal troubles coming out of this, because if someone said, ‘I followed your advice, I used this and I had an adverse event or an untoward outcome,’ they might try to hold him liable for that,” Caplan said.