Dr. Phil is currently being broadcast, and I happen to have been watching him...
sort of the way you crane your neck and slow down to watch a car accident scene.
Just let me say as a mental health professional, that what Dr. Phil does is not ethically appropriate or acceptable in treating people.
And...
today Dr. Phil announced that
"...lupus is not life threatening."
He has a special on about Anna Nicole Smith, and as many of you in the lupus network know...
one of Anna Nicole's friends has disclosed that Anna reported she had lupus.
The friend was on Dr. Phil and stated that Anna had told him she had lupus, "a blood disease".
Dr. Phil also pronounced that lupus is not a blood disease.
Well...no... lupus IS an autoimmune disease
BUT...
vasculitis (a potentially life threatening blood disorder) is one of the major symptoms of lupus.
And regarding life threatening...
I would LOVE to have Dr. Phil sit in a room with all of those who had a loved one's life cut short by lupus... and have to listen to them.
Maybe he should just shut his mouth and work on that listening thing.
Please, folks...
DO NOT CONFUSE THIS MEDIA MONGER WITH A MENTAL HEALTH EXPERT!
2 comments:
My mother had Lupus -- it killed her at 41. "Dr. Phil" is talking out of his ass.
Wil,
I am so sorry.
This is the very reason that the Lupus Foundation of America and many, many of us with lupus have contacted Dr. Phil.
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