I am not a fan of Mehmet Oz, it goes without saying, but even I didn’t think that he was this strange.
In the clip you will see below, he talks about drinking urine. He mentions color, taste, he only stops short at telling you what gourmet foods your pi$$ will pair with, optimally speaking.
Should I put a ****TRIGGER WARNING****** on this? Yeah, I will. This is perverse and off the walls enough to where it merits that. Again, please, oh ye muses and Olympian gods of politics, remove this clown from the public arena, at least as a candidate for office. And please, Pennsylvania voters, save yourselves and in doing so, have mercy on the rest of the country. Vote this bum into oblivion. Let Oz go on talk shows and talk about pi$$ popsicles, whatever appeals to him, but not in the context of being a candidate for the United States Senate.
Um..nope. Nope. Nopedy Nope. “Taste your own urine day” is definitely not a thing in any medical school curriculum. https://t.co/lHJQcxx7xh
— Nick Mark MD (@nickmmark) October 15, 2022
I didn’t think that doctors had to taste their own urine. I know that doctors are tortured plenty in other ways, they pull incredibly long shifts, back to back. Believe me, I have heard stories. But drinking one’s urine is limited to the pages of sci fi, basically. Unless you’re Mehmet Oz, of course.
Oh, excuse me, tasting one’s urine. He didn’t say he drank it, he said he tasted it. But: like everything else in life, where is the line drawn? When does tasting turn into drinking? And when, dear God, does drinking turn into one pi$$ over the line, Sweet Jesus?
And what amount of urine drinking is too much? Will we have UA, Urine Anonymous meetings?
— Ursula Faw (@ursulafaw56) October 16, 2022
As you see, friends, I am getting on top of the Urine Wave, immediately. (Great image, eh what?) It isn’t often that one finds oneself at the forefront of a cutting new sociological phenomenon, but thanks to Count Quackula, Mehmet Oz, here, that’s where I am.
I have two lovely wine goblets, that were a gift, and you use them to swirl wine, so that you can savor the bouquet, before drinking it. Do you think that will become the next big thing in haute cuisine, savoring a nice glass of pi$$? Or, will it be more like beer, where you chill it down and then have a nice, hearty pint of it to cool off?
Pi$$ on draft, maybe?
This is getting carried away. I think I better lie down. Somebody else take over in the threads. I’m not feeling so well. (Do not suggest I take two aspirin with a urine chaser or I’ll ban you.)
maybe in Turkey they did that….
Frankly, I’m surprised Oz isn’t trying to sell it as a magic elixir.
God. The republican party is a bona fide looney bin.
Can we just skip ahead to the part where everybody is laughing at Jason Bateman’s portrayal of that time the TV quack ran for a Senate seat? Or do we have to wait until technology has advanced sufficiently for Pixar to give him the eyebrows he’ll need to pull it off?
Trump probably asked him what Russian hooker pee tastes like!
I think Herschel needs to give Oz a breathalyzer test before he puts his Dollar General badge away. It’s going to get even weirder.
To be fair, this was actually done in a medical school. I even saw it for myself.
Of course, it was a MOVIE and it turned out to be a practical joke being played on a fresh bunch of interns by one of their supervisors. The movie was “Young Doctors in Love” with some pretty decent stars in the cast but the one that pulled the gag was played by Harry Dean Stanton. His character, Dr Ludwig, claimed in front of the interns to have “proudly tasted all of [the over 20 bodily fluids present].” What he did then was to stick a finger into a beaker filled with what was supposed to be urine, pulled his finger out and proceeded to stick his finger in his mouth, eliciting groans of disgust from the interns. One of the interns (played by Michael McKean, best known at the time for being Lenny on “Laverne & Shirley”) then went in front of the class and did the same thing. Finally, another intern (played by Sean Young–who was also on the big screen at the time in “Blade Runner”) got up and started to do the same thing until McKean’s character stopped her, showing how neither Ludwig nor he had actually performed the gross action. It was basically sleight-of-hand–sticking one finger into the beaker then sticking a different finger into their mouth, but keeping the fingers and the beaker strategically placed so the audience didn’t see the “switch.”
(The action has been done in other shows and movies but usually the taster wasn’t exactly human–or, at least, not someone you would want to emulate, much less elect to public office–so they might “actually” taste the urine. But most people recoil from even the mere consideration of tasting urine–as Stan did in the “South Park” episode, “Pee,” before he ended up doing so. Even on survival shows, when the subject of urine comes up, there’s always a level of disgust by the non-professional types, whether it’s human or not or whether it’s been properly filtered or not.)
Oh dear Oz.
Now, on top of everything else.
Urine trouble.
Actually, going back to ancient Greek medicine practice and up into the middle ages, examining urine for color, smell, and taste was done routinely. https://www.ancient-origins.net/weird-facts/urine-0017165 . This article illustrates a chart relating color to diagnosis. Bernard Cornwell describes its use in his book The Archer’s Tale, set in the mid-1300’s in England and France.
As to modern practice, which backward hinterlands does Dr. Oz hail from, that results in his being so familiar with this test?