Shameful Anti-Doctor Ad Campaign Exposed 

These grifters always use this tactic, someone ought to sue them

I believe the vast majority of doctors have the patients' best interests at heart. I'm much less convinced about insurance companies. With pharmaceuticals, at least we have government organizations like the FDA, but insurance companies are given the power to override and deny doctors' advice when those companies are primarily dedicated to making a profit. That's not a healthy model.

I have said for a long time that if you have to bash someone else's services or products to make yours look good there is something wrong with you or your products. If it's not good enough to sell on it's own merits, it's not good enough to sell at all. Period.

As a resident I can say that we are already too busy; we don't need to withold medication to get more patients, we already have too many thanks

As a person with a migraine disorder along with Trigeminal Autonomic Cephalgia and Trigeminal Neuralgia, that homeopathic stuff does not work. I do use some non-medication methods such as mindfulness and meditation to help control the severity of the pain. The only thing that has ever worked for me is actual medication along with non-medication tools. I hate when grifters use these tactics to peddle their snake oil. They just make it harder on migraine sufferers, because we will try ANYTHING to make it stop. They are selling hope to people who feel hopeless, and cause more harm than good.

"...this device is not going to be covered by your insurance..." Bold of you to assume that I have insurance.

Some people still seem to think a doctor's revenue is based on the number of prescriptions we write...

Its a very common myth that for some reason many find convincing. I guess your average person thinks that doctors are desperate for patients because there just isn't enough disease out there already lol

My mom and my stepmom both believe stuff like this. Unfortunately I have a number of chronic illnesses and thus take a number of medications to manage them. So I get to hear my mom snark, "Why don't you go take another pill!" when I say I'm not feeling well, or my stepmom 'subtly' talk about how modern medicine is poison and everything can be healed by eating well and taking a walk. Just... no.

One of the main issues with the idea that doctors don't want you to know "the truth" is that it assumes that doctors would have no work if "the truth" was widespread. Even if that miracle cure would work, there's still gonna be people with different problems that will still make doctors' roles relevant. Really, I'm sure most doctors wish these miracle cures worked to lighten their loads.

If there's anything I've learned from my exposure to medicine as a patient and a pre-med student, it's that health doesn't always mean your life will be exactly the same as someone who never got sick or injured in the first place. It's hard knowing that in order to be healthy, I have to put in the work and meet my doctor in the middle, and that they can only do so much, while other people just live lives of perfect health. But that doesn't mean it's okay to lash out at doctors and claim that all but your favorite ones from social media are out to get people, and it's certainly wrong to use that sentiment to scam people. Thanks for being a voice of reason, doc.

My neurologist fought my insurance for 2 years to get me on Emgality so I would stop having crippling migraines almost every day. Emgality works great for me. Part of my issue is I have migraines that are secondary to other conditions (MCAS and POTS in my case) and I didn’t get full relief until I got the POTS diagnosed and treated.

As a RN, I've been saying this for years. Unfortunately, some nurses even fall into crazy treatments (ionic foot bath, salt lamp therapy, essential oils, etc). We should know better!

It is probably just caffeine

As a migraine sufferer, I was looking into a daith piercing. There are reports that it may help with frequency and/or severity. I asked my doctor, who said that there isn’t any real research (or wasn’t at the time we discussed it), but even if it’s a placebo effect, placebo effects are symptom relief. Since I know that my headaches aren’t brain cancer, symptom relief is a valid outcome. I got the piercing, and it has definitely helped. I still get migraines, but not nearly as frequently. My point is, even though my doctor knew that there wasn’t any research supporting this action, they acknowledged that it wouldn’t be harmful, and symptom relief was the best outcome I could obtain, and with no side effects. Worst-case scenario would be some pretty jewelry.

My wife has fallen for these scams before. We got into a big argument once when she wanted to spend $800 for some device that used red lasers to cure you and I said I could find no research that says it works nor could I think of any plausible reason why it would work better than just standing in the sun. I gave in and we bought it and it didn’t work. But I can’t very well run it in like I told ya so. It’s just sad. It is about desperation and a willingness to try anything that might work.

Corporations that practice medicine without a license should have everyone in charge jailed, not be allowed to insult the people they're abusing.

It's sick, the huge numbers of people trying to profit off of the gullibility or desperation of suffering people.

The best evidence against these sorts of "doctors only care about the money" claims is to just point at public healthcare systems. In a public healthcare system it's cheaper to treat the cause and get rid of the problem than it is to use ongoing symptom control because the more someone comes back the more it costs the system (famously, opponents of public healthcare keep pushing conspiracies that public healthcare will try and avoid treating anything at all because it costs money, ignoring when insurance companies in the US do exactly what they accuse other systems of). Despite this, the specific choices of medical treatment in the US are broadly similar to public systems, almost as if treatments are based on efficacy instead of profit when it comes to what the doctor recommends.* *Obviously there will be individual doctors who seek profit, that's the case with any field, but profit seeking only causes relatively small shifts in practice in most cases (like choosing a new patented drug over a similarly effective generic - still works to treat the condition just fine) because blatant malpractice is, well, blatantly obvious and people will see the specialists and generalists who actually successfully treat conditions instead.

Well spoken sir

Oh, the irony of watching this while in my neurologists infusion center getting a treatment that is highly effective at knocking down my pain level. Are some doctors awful? Duh, but so are some people of every profession.

My Lieutenant in the Army was a Physician before joining to be an infantry officer and he and my neurologist told me caffeine helps my cluster headaches. The neurologist recommended riboflavin and magnesium It does help but the Maxsalt and Elavil works best. It took over a decade to get diagnosed with cluster headaches but both neurologists were really helpful. Unfortunately some things take a while to diagnose. I’m so grateful to the neurologist who diagnosed me thanks to her I have something that can actually help when I’m in pain. First cluster headache I ever got was in 2008 at 10 and I wasn’t diagnosed until I was around 21. Medicine has gotten so much better than it was in 2008.

Thank you for this thoughtful response video

The low man on the totem pole is generally the most important and respected.

Nah, of course they don’t WANT us to suffer. Most of the primaries and internists I’ve been to have just been incompetent, dogmatic, and employ very poor listening and observation skills. And some are arrogant and think they know me in ten minutes better than I know myself.

I've been dealing with migraines my whole life had many doctors some who listened and tried to help some who didn't but I would never claim they were intentionally withholding treatment for money the things they tried just didn't work for me

I have chronic migraines, and I know that my Doctor has never given up on me. These 'cures' actually frustrate the suffering and it should be illegal.

First thing my neurologist did was take me off of all triptans, painkillers, NSAIDs and analgesics for three weeks while keeping up with the preventative. Then I had to watch my own sleep and eating timings, making sure I was active, etc. I didn't like the preventative because it made me feel loopy - so I started on riboflavin, which has been slightly less effective but with far less side effects. I now can take pain meds as needed, but I know when I have a migraine, it's usually due to a combo of hormones, weather and bad sleep.

I don't have migraines, I have gut dysbiosis; but throughout my twenty years of dealing with skin issues and various doctors, it is clear that there are Doctors that don't care about you. Its naive to believe that all doctors care. I had doctor's prescribe me topical steroids for years, making it stronger and stronger so I would think I was getting better.

That need to be said 👏

So true..I do not understand why people are so eager to bash healthcare specialists just to market their own alternative products.we gain more when a patient is treated quickly in terms of fame and reputation and job satisfaction. It is like your plumber /mechanic is deliberately destroying your pipelines/cars every time you go for a service

What are you supposed to do when there aren’t that many gastroenterologists in my area and the physicians that are in my area are employed by the two hospitals…so they are employees of the hospital (gastroenterologists) and their office doesn’t return phone calls. My internal medicine doctor is treating my gastroenterology issues, thankfully!

Unfortunately, there are doctors who prescribe medications or treatments that actively hurt their patients. A former pain management doctor of mine is currently in prison for prescribing scores of patients with excessive new, high potency opioids in return for kickbacks from the pharmaceutical companies. I almost died from an overdose when taking just the prescribed amount.

Patients not having their headaches go away gives _us_ headaches. So, no, we don't benefit from witholding treatment.

It's modern day snake oil and instead of traveling medicine shows, there's the internet.

Anti-medicalism is arguably an extremely predictable and tragic consequence of our current healthcare system unfortunately. It makes sense that people would buy this grift when theyre regularly expected to cough up an arm and a leg for medical treatment :(

I take for granted that as a canadian I have literally never had that thought.

Thanks for this!

Thanks for speaking!!

Well said! I could not agree more!

Well said 👏

Very apt and eloquent rebuttal

Pt: "I've been going to my doctor for years and he hasn't made my migraines any better." Me: "Is your doctor an internist or a neurologist?" Pt.: "I guess so, he's a chiropractor. That's the same kind of 'doctor', right? Maybe I should try my neighbor's naturopath instead. They're neurologists, right?"

So sadistic pieces of s#it don't jump through hurdles to make others just as miserable and insane as they are? Doesn't happen? A world like that doesn't exist?

Seen a bunch of these ads. Some of them claiming to have “medical degrees”. No way to report ads.

I take propranolol for long term care and sumatriptan for acute onset. My use of sumatriptan has dropped from two or three days per week to about once per two months! Give me the doctor's treatment every time!!

My doctor doesn't want me to be sick, but he does want to get paid, and so does the for profit system he works for. Until doctors/healthcare are paid to prevent and cure disease, they continue to give lip service to prevention and cures while cashing in on treatments for the chronic ill. That is simply the business model for about 75% of healthcare/pharma, which is a pillar of the US economy. Unfortunately in the US doctors/healthcare are often financially penalized if they do a good job with prevention or cure things, and while most genuinely want to help people, almost all primarily want to pay the bills first.

It's sickening that people would be self-serving and greedy, even after going through extensive education? Yeah, okay. Listen, doctors are people. Some are greedy assholes, some are wonderful saints.

It's protocol, pharma, and conflict of interest in the govt...not the dr.s themselves when this occurs ( i.e - ivermectin).

Good point

It’s ridiculous YT let’s this shht be pushed to people. Medical misinformation needs to be taken seriously.

Migraines have been around for centuries. They used to throw heavy painkillers at it

Lovely!

Drugs for crushing MS fatigue withheld for 6 months. To rule out sleep aphina which the drug was labeled to treat!

Who do you report a doctor to?

WORD!!!!!! (Do the kids still say this 🤔)

In my admittedly limited experience, the best alternative medicines dont feel the need to actively bash the medical profession in order to sell their product. No reason both sides of that issue can't work together for the best possible treatment for every patient (except insurance companies... but I digress).

Migraines are going to be so susceptible to this. There isn't a cure. Some people are able to prevent or avoid migraines effectively, but it's a chronic condition. We all want a cure.

Pardon that this is completely tangential, but "four years of college, four years of medical school"? Is the education really that convoluted in the US? Here people just apply to/enter medical fresh from high school...

But how do you really feel? 😊😊😊

Well, they can't jolly well promote their cure by evidence because they don't have any. These ads are just a modern version of the old story of a king who promises to marry his daughter to the one who has invented the best soap to get the whitest face of all competitors. The hero of the story just watches the others scrub their faces and when they are all done, takes out a pot of tar and a brush, and paints everyone's face black just before the time is up. Being a hero, he, of course, gets the princess .

I've had crap doctors. I've had crap alternatives. Use what works and won't cause bizarre and/or deadly side effects. Don't treatment-shame others to sell your own stuff. Fearmongering is bs, regardless of reasons.

I have this problem with many patients in pakistan too.....patient only want to hear shortcuts ....😂😂

Awww Dr. you were angrrryyy 😮😅

I was suffering for at least a decade. And I do mean suffering. Like sometimes I would wish I could just die in my sleep. My doctors did NOT care. (Well actually, PAs. I don't ever see an actual doctor, just a string of PAs) But anyway ... To them I'm just a lab result and someone to write prescriptions for. I finally figured out how to heal my own self and am no longer suffering. The doctors also don't care either way that I'm better. They also didn't care when I lost 50 lbs, or when I quit a 25-year heavy smoking habit. I'm still just a lab result to them. They literally only care about what my labs say. It doesn't matter at all what I say about how I'm feeling.

15 years of doctors telling me that my gut pain and puking was anxiety! It took me being almost 40 before a doctor suggested prilosec and it worked wonders. Medical negligence is something a lot of people have experienced so it's not that hard for some to believe that they just wait around for you to feel bad enough to see them and pay them money to be told you're making stuff up. I HAD given up on my digestive issues being cured. I mentioned it while getting a refill for my adhd meds. Before then, I hadn't gone more than 2 weeks without being awake all night puking and screaming in pain. Now I know what it feels like to actually sleep all night regularly. Doctors never cared.

If docs made money from giving inappropriate medication‘s to patients, we’d all retire by the age of 50 with three Porsches and a multi million dollar house.

Unfortunately, some use this for business cause, to keep the patient return back or visit other clinics, this happens sadly The worst thing honest people who work hard for the People dont get the attention

I think it's funny he brings up migraines - a disease that is poorly understood and treatments are hit or miss.

Some doctors could since they are more likely to be psychopaths

Well some research is dodgy and some studies are dodgy. I think people try to make numbers and data confirm what they expect to see. Medicine and pharmaceuticals do rely heavily on such systems and the funding could involve some level of corruption sometimes. Drs tolerate this and their education does preference chemical solutions in combination with surgical interventions etc. So the hawker is tapping into this narrative to posit his product as a potential alternative option. By mentioning insurance you're reinforcing his point about how it's all tied in and about generating money and wealth. Yes he's potentially no better and may have similar motives to earn money. Drs may recommend green exercise prescription interventions but are heavily resistant to things not proven effective through research. Research is tainted by bias. Bias is rife. Research may not be as reliable as we hope even if hunches about certain things like HIV drugs and chemotherapy do the trick. When they're now figuring out how to personalise treatments and tailor them to individual differences this is certainly promising. However i accept there's likely unexplored territory that doesn't hit the benchmarks for medicine that could be better ways of doing things. Values factor in when it's things like viruses spreading around in terms of preventing deaths. He's selling people on a given perspective and yes that can be dangerous. However communication in medical settings (in my part of the world) can be poor quality and if the community gets on the case of medical people to voice this dissatisfaction then it could serve to help Drs realise enough's enough and they need to lift their game and become more appreciative of the wealth of knowledge around communication and borrow from other disciplines. We get generalised advice instead of personalised care in many settings. So great for those with high cholesterol etc not so great for those who don't fit the mould and have slightly different issues not best addressed by general advice you could've found yourself online. Poor communication influences treatment. Uptake and "compliance" could be poor as a result of insensitive communication. Persuasiveness may be ineffectual owing to poor communication. Comprehension may be poor owing to poor communication. Etc Recent examples of bias potentially impacting data (at the point of collection): Example One: Person assessing eyesight for driver test gives "pass" with no glasses if your vision is borderline but you went in with prescription sunglasses (removed for assessment). Gives "fail" if the glasses you removed were more in the style of typical spectacles and laughs as though it was silly of you to try to read it without your glasses even though there's no change in vision and licence never required that condition before. Can squint and read fine as only one eye is slightly "bad". She mixed up "columns" and "rows" in her instructions so should have laughed at her own incompetence. Example Two: Not sure on this one completely but blood pressure reader expects "obese" person to have high blood pressure and seemed to re-inflate the cuff to cause a spike perhaps? As she looked puzzled at the reading on the machine . I know factors can influence blood pressure but if it's the only time a high reading like that was ever achieved it may have had something to do with her "technique" and expectations? Given weight loss and blood donations should have reduced it if anything and obese strong, active people aren't the same as other forms of obesity. And it was late in the day so there were so many reasons why her interpretation of the automated machine seemed off. Another applied a cuff too tightly i believe as it caused physical injury. But i don't know if she was striving for feedback to reinforce her discriminatory bias. It's sad because a low score would be highly motivating and plateaus in health gains can dissuade efforts to persist with a healthier lifestyle. Some people who make considerable efforts with fitness and health can be difficult for some to distinguish from obese people who aren't very active or health conscious. Example Three: Teachers want to believe attendance is linked to marks and ignore those who do very well at school (like even first place in class or near there) despite having greater than 50% of the year in absences and late days too. They promote results that say what they want it to say and it's even okay to remove and ignore outliers? Example Four: At a volunteer blood donor centre: swapping digits from a good hb (hemoglobin) reading to bp (blood pressure) to make bp look slightly worse than 120/80 and make hb look slightly lower than what was displayed.

I have found your videos to be funny and informative, HOWEVER I strongly disagree with your OPINION on this one 0:25 Insurance DR's that went through all that training OFTEN (don't authorize) effective treatments for patients, which PROVES that OPINION is factually wrong. I trust it will be rescinded or at least changed to say "most/many" doctors don't do this, otherwise I will have to seriously reconsider my support for this channel. 😞

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