- Posted by: Spicy
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- Jan 10, 2008
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- 4 Smack Talkers
Penn, of Penn & Teller, unleashed on Dr. Phil calling him cynical, cold and a scumbag in this online video post he did on Crackle.com. Penn calls it like it is – Dr. Phil got called out – and that’s why he canceled his ‘Britney Intervention’ show.
I totally agree with him. Dr. Phil should be embarrassed. I know Britney asks for a lot of what she gets, but at some point you have to feel sorry for her. I mean, is there anybody she can actually trust? It’s sad, really.
*Sidenote: Check out Penn’s video posts at least 4x a week on Crackle.com.
If you don’t want people to know what is going on then don’t ask a VERY public Pyschiatrist to come see you!! What the F___ do you expect? If you want privacy, get advice/help from someone with a PRIVATE practice. Also, let’s look at Dr.Phil’s track record compared to the Spears over in Camp Crazy….do you really think he would speak out of line? I was surprised to hear that he was involved or making any kind of comment which leads me to believe that at the very least he was lead to believe he was at liberty to comment.
I agree with JB: The fact that Dr. Phil was even talking about this suggests that he had some sort of permission to do so. Say what you will about him, his ethics around the issue of confidentiality are solid.
“Dr.” Phil is not a real doctor, an M.D. or Medical Doctor. M.D.’s are state licensed health care professionals with years of training at A.M.A. accredited institutions who have passed stringent exams and have earned the legal ability to write prescriptions and to specialize in a particular area of medicine, like Psychiatry. In contrast, Dr. Phil is just some jerk with a Ph.D. An insensitive, emotionally destructive, loudmouth dummy who, by virtue of obtaining a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from North Texas State University, can, technically and by custom, use the title “Dr.”
Only M.D.’s can be Psychiatrists, so please don’t refer to him as such. He deserves that accolade about as much as I deserve the Nobel Prize in Economics because I balanced my checkbook this month.
If he was a real doctor, federal and state privacy laws regarding confidentiality of patient information would have required him to keep his friggin’ trap shut. In that aspect, it’s too bad he’s not a real doctor because it would have saved us all from his moronic commentary.
Um, no offense to Mr Opinionator, but:
Real doctor means PhD. All the others are medical practitioners. It is a peculiarity of the English language (and only a few others) that the name for the profession is “doctor”, whereas in other languages the confusion is not there because they are referred to as the local equivalent of “physician”. If you don’t have a university doctorate, then you ain’t no “doctor”. So Dr. Phil is a “real” doctor.
However, (1) Dr Phil sux. (2) nobody would assume that he is entitled to pronounce on anybody’s health or otherwise – that’s what you go to an M/psychiatrist/psychologist for, not the host of a daytime TV show [DUH!].
I mean – shit – the guy is about catering to the lowest common denominator. Then again, a lot of dumb people watch Oprah and Dr Phil and all that daytime shit, so maybe these people really don’t have a clue. Whoever invited Dr Phil to talk to Britney obviously didn;t have their head screwed together the right way either. A private practitioner would have made a lot more sense.
Anyhow, I worked my guts out for my PhD, and I am a real doctor, and I want to reiterate how offended I feel when medical practitioners are refered to as “doctors” when they are not. That’s why I usually refer to my medical practitioners by first name – one of the whole things about living in a society as informal as Australia is that you can call everyone by their first name, except maybe the PM, the Governor-General and the Chief Justice.
Oh, my renal surgeon has a Ph.D., so he IS a real doctor. So is my orthopaedic surgeon. I go to practitioners who are on top of the latest research, not those who are 10 years behind it.
Just my $0.2 worth.