Spyke
cm0002reply
lemmy.world

Right? This is an invalid graph without Dr. House.

I hope OP doesn't have lupus

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lemmy.zip

Somewhere between top-right and top-middle depending on how revoked his license is at the given moment and how much vicodin he is on.

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lemmy.ca

Does the amount of vicodin he's using put him higher or lower on the graph?

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lemmy.world

I cannot believe he survived the whole series, seems like someone who should have died near the end of s3 just to add to the atmosphere of desperation.

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lemmy.world

HOW DID HE EVEN GET CIGARETTES!!!

They are starving and eating paper but somehow they kept tobacco plants and all the mechanisms for drying and curing them, which would have taken enough resources to keep hundreds of people alive!?!?!

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A guy like Cottle buys cigarettes for a decade in advance.

Hell, even Col. Tigh was smoking rollies by the end of the series. Cottle was set for life.

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I always used to joke that one of the ships in the fleet was a cargo ship full of cigarettes.

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eightyreply
lemmy.one

Doctor House would be top right but partly because you wouldn't need to run very far.

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sh.itjust.works

I don't think McCoy is ever depicted as particularly brilliant. He's just a competent doctor from a time with more advanced technology.

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I don't know, he came up with novel cures for things multiple times on planets never before visited. He did it in Miri despite the virus being completely novel.

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Yeah Phil goes down and to the left. I’d say oz goes down a little bit too, but I’m glad the maker of this meme still put those guys in the right section.

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To be fair he said he didnt go to evil med school to be called mr evil. Keys eords being didnt go to med school

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lemmy.world

How in the heckin' is JD below a dwarf, a mad scientist tinkerer, and a random catchy band?

He is a caring, trained, and competent doctor who will put his pride and personal life aside to help a patient.

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lemmy.world

He arrived late to thank his trashmen, ended up letting a patient die.

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He wasn’t to blame, though he easily could’ve been. That was death was the radiologist’s fault though, IIRC.

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lemmy.world

Dr. Strange should have more formal training for his surgery specialty. Did JD specialize or did he just stay in internal medicine?

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lemmy.world

But that’s the Y axis. Training is on the X. As a neurosurgeon, he’s had at least 2 more years of training than JD, possibly a lot more.

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lemmy.world

Internal medicine, and then eventually started teaching medical school classes too. Yes, I did watch the shitty Scrubs final season reboot.

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lemmy.world

So Dr. Strange is trained in neurosurgery, which is a 7 year residency compared to 3-4 years for internal medicine. He may have also done a neurosurgery fellowship for 2 years.

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lemmy.world

He definitely should be higher than J.D. if we're going just by special issues. I would rather have him overseeing my brain surgery than J.D.

But if I was in the hospital for a more common ailment, I'll take an expert in internal medicine over a neurosurgeon.

In fact, if I was in the hospital for, for example, getting poisoned by something and no one can figure out what, I'd pick an expert in internal medicine over a neurosurgeon.

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lemmy.world

Oh yeah, Dr. Strange was literally one of the world's best surgeons, right?

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fedia.io

Yup, and Time Lords in general probably had several medical degrees worth of education.

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lemmy.zip

I vaguely remember from my Dr. Who phase one of the doctors confirming he did get an Earth M.D. at some point

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lemmy.world

Probably multiple, and can we include other planets? And does a future MD count for more than a past one?

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lemmy.world

The Doctor barely squeaked through his Time Lord training (I think the quote was "53% on his second try.")

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They still passed the academy, though. That's probably incredibly good by human standards, given that Time Lord studies encompasses literally everything.

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IninewCrowreply
lemmy.ca

They haven't eaten human liver or tried pan frying a piece of someone's brain .... but they're still a couple of idiots that shouldn't be trusted for medical advice

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They may not be cannibals, but I wouldn't put it past them to have devoured a number of souls....

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lemmy.world

For reference on the no training side:

Dr. Dre and Dr. Venture: Both possess honorary doctorates. The former from UCLA, the latter from a Tijuana community college.
Dr. Pepper: Charles T. Pepper did have a medical doctorate. He is cited as a possible source of the name.
Dr. Evil: Evil medical school.
Zoidberg: Claims he lost it in a volcano, more likely a art history degree.
Dr. Horrible: Likely physics though he claims Horribleness (though it could be a catchphrase.)
Dr. Seuss: Intended to get a Doctorate of Philosophy, got an honorary doctorate of Humane Letters.
The Doctor: Per This - While pretending to be the Doctor in an effort to save herself from an army of Cybermen, one of the planet’s deadliest enemies, in Death in Heaven, Clara said: ‘I don’t even really have a doctorate. Well Glasgow University, but then I accidentally graduated in the wrong century.’
Doc: Does become a doctor at Storybrooke hospital in a live action show, "Once Upon a Time", apparently not a surgeon though.
Spin Doctors: No doctors.

I feel like a fair amount of those on the trained side aren't medical doctors (Phil, Ock, Robotnik, Lector, Honeydew) or at the very least, aren't folks you'd want around for your heart attack.

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Skuareply
kbin.earth

Dr Strange being a professional surgeon and barely making it past the neutral mark on the qualification axis seems, well, a bit strange

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I'd put Strange ahead of McCoy. What is McCoy going to do without his Tricorder? He'd rant,

"They used to hand-cut and sew people like garments. Needles and sutures."

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I agree he should be a little farther right, but his origin story is all about how his injury specifically prevented him from doing surgery anymore. Plus some iterations of him with the time stone might not have thought about medicine in hundreds of years. His magic also seems to not be healing focused. So I kinda get why he is under qualified comparatively

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"It's the MLK Jr. of beverages!"

(FBI agents hate it.)

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Seriously....him and Dr. Strange alone would all but garuentee your safety.

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Skullgridreply
lemmy.world

yes, but his hands broke in an accident. Not sure how good he is with his hands on medical equipment/psychically controlling medical tools

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The meme references training, not physical ability. Strange should arguably be overlaid on Bones.

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lemmy.world

I thought he willed himself back to full dexterity, but I also didn’t really pay attention to the movie, to be fair.

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He learned to magic because he thought it would let him fix his hands. Instead he learned the guy who he thought fixed his legs with magic just uses magic to control his non-functional legs.

So he probably could do surgery but he’d probably magically control the needle instead of holding it or something. Maybe.

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fedia.io

Some unsolicited comments on this:

  • I would absolutely trade Dr. Bunsen Honeydew with Dr. Mario.
  • The Dr. Pepper position is just pure slander.
  • Dr. Horrible and Doogie Howser, MD is the true duality of humanity.
  • Zoidberg is suspiciously much higher along the Y-axis than I would personally prefer.
  • Dr. Dre, like I would forget, is absolutely a quadrant II candidate. There's just no way I'd put Spin Doctors high along the Y-axis than Dre.
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WolfLinkreply
sh.itjust.works

Dr. Strange is a fully trained surgeon. He should be farther to the right!

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Agrivarreply
lemmy.world

Not just fully trained, but at the top of his field and possessing an MD and a PhD! He should be at the far right edge!

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phxreply
lemmy.ca

But he also refused a lot of patients because he really only wanted "sure things" and not something that might damage his reputation.

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Also... I think he brought some mother fuckers back from the dead. And he helped reverse the snap.

That sounds like he's probably got a solid defense against any complaints made to the state board.

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I’m glad you didn’t forget about Dre… or Double-Doctor E as we call him in the hospital.

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Dr Oz and Dr Phil are not doctors and should be to the left and south of Dr Pepper. Neither has a license and both are so full of shit their advice has probably killed people.

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chatokunreply
lemmy.dbzer0.com

Oz is a Doctor, and was a very good one who got corrupted in his aim for fame and fortune. Part of his tragedy is that if he'd shut up and just do his actual doctor work only he'd be a benefit to society, not the detriment he is now. It's important to know that he's worse because he had actual skill as a heart surgeon. Quoting wiki:

In 1982, he received his undergraduate degree in biology magna cum laude[3] at Harvard University.[31] ... In 1986, he obtained MD and MBA degrees from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine[30] and Penn's Wharton School.[34][35]

Edit: also, as far as I can tell, still performing heart surgeries, so should still be licensed. Still a piece of shit who should stick to surgeries. Lots of people good at 1 thing think they're geniuses at everything.

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After hearing the pure stupidity that comes out of his mouth I wouldn't let that fruitcake supplement salesman near me.

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lemmy.world

There is no way Dr. Mario has any training. He just throws random pills at the problems hoping that they line up and do something other than cause an overdose.

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Bruh… that’s literally what doctoring is now. Got the hurt? Pain pills. Got the sad? SSRIs. Got two, three, four sets of titties? Ozempic!

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Doctor Evil didn't go to Evil Medical School for six years to be put in the section with no training, thank you very much!

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lemm.ee

Why is Doctor Strange to the left of JD from Scrubs? Isn't he a world renown surgeon or something? Does that count for less because he hasn't had medical practice lately?

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lemmy.world

Not to mention less formal training than Dr. Quinn? At least he’s studied modern medicine and has specialty years after surgery residency.

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lemm.ee

I'll be honest, I don't recognize that character. What are they from?

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If I had to guess it's because JD is more of a general physician. Strange was a neurosurgeon before the accident that crippled his hands and led him to study the Mystic Arts. So not only can he not perform surgery anymore without magic but if he was working on you, then you were pretty much in life or death territory anyway.

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Dr. Strange had his injury in 1963, he probably went through medical school in the 1950's and has been studying magic, not medicine ever since. His techniques and knowledge are extremely out of date.

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Probably the same reason Zoidberg is considered to be on the same level of medical competence as Dr. Dre (Zoidberg literally doesn't know human anatomy), and a higher one than Dr. Pepper (Which is genuinely responsible for less death than Zoidberg is), and Dr. Evil (Went to Evil Medical School)

And even then all of these people are probably better doctors than Doc, the dwarf who lived back in the days when washing your hands was considered a "Rookie mistake no self-respecting gentleman in the medical profession would ever make"

And the Medical Profession consisted of people wearing scary crow masks who just spread disease around and kill people, fully believing that disease was caused by not saying "Bless you" when someone sneezes

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lemmy.world

Dr. Zoidberg is a fully-qualified medical doctor, though, and a good one at that. Just not for humans. Even so, he's quite good, given that he hasn't killed any of his human patients, though they may come out a little different.

As is Doctor Who, who has high qualifications in literally everything. It took them a few goes, but they got there in the end.

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Didn't Zoidberg once successfully attach Fry's head to Amy's body (or something like that)? Not sure any of the others on that chart have done something that impressive.

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That said, how much do you trust your life with Dr. Who? I've seen many characters die while trusting him, and that's just the ones on screen.

I'm not saying he is a bad doctor, but he was caught on film losing several sidekicks/ allies. If you're caught on film doing something, you probably do it a lot.

"If you get caught doing crack on the news, you are a crackhead. It's not like a "oh this was just the one time" situation. You do it enough you get caught on the news doing it." -Josh Johnson

Edit: just looked for an answer of what the mortality rate is for the Doctor and it's 42% according to a reddit question. At some point the authorities would be called in because 42% is more than just a "licence revoked" number.

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lemmy.world

Having The Doctor at the top is a little strange, because hanging with the doctor could very well mean your death, but it will be worth it.

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lemmy.world

And does he actually have no formal training? You’d think at some stretch of his life he actually became accredited somewhere. Possible on multiple planets.

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aussie.zone

It's a tad out of date, but the Second Doctor claims he received a medical degree after studying under Joseph Lister in 1888.

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lemmy.world

I would put him the same level as an abusive husband he will probably protect you with his life but you will suffer every moment you are with him and he will eventually be the cause of your death.

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Minarblereply
aussie.zone

Yes but your death will also result in The Doctor saving a highly populated and benevolent spaceship/city/country/civilisation/planet/solar system/multi system commonwealth/galactic empire/inter galactic multi reality or indeed the whole Universe both multiversal and singular.

Or your death will result in The Doctor defeating a malevolent spaceship/city/country/civilisation/planet/solar system/multi system commonwealth/galactic empire/inter galactic multi reality or indeed the whole Universe both multiversal and singular.

So worth it really.

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lemmy.world

Dr. Robotnik is more trustworthy than Phil tbh, but I suppose context matters.

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phxreply

He'll amputate your limbs but replace them with fairly functional robot parts?

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No but he would try to scam and gaslight me or exploit me in some other manner. If the setting is a regular checkup I'll trust Robotnik more. Ah, but the chart explicitly says trusting life with and not livelihood so I guess you've got me there.

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decerianreply
lemmy.world

Nonsense! Zoidberg's a fine physician. For Aliens. Your mistake is being human!

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lemmy.world

I would trust J.D. with my life way over Dr. Seuss.

J.D. is a fool, but he's also a really good doctor.

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mipadaitureply
lemmy.world

Depends on which season. Are you extrapolating current JD? Or can we pick season 1 JD, where he has a lot of knowledge, but very little experience, and wasn't a very good doctor yet?

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Of course not! He's Vanilla Bear to Turk's Chocolate Bear!

^(We^ ^don't^ ^discuss^ ^Caramel^ ^Bear.)^

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Nonsense! He's been taking humans apart for years. He can rearrange your body parts into any order you want.

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wtf i looked 3 times and didnt see him, i thought you were joking. this meme was a fun idea but the execution sucks

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  1. Dr. Phil has training that's a shock?
  2. Bro I'd trust Dr. Pepper more than a lot of people on this list
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The more anyone looks at this, the worse it gets.

Someone needs to fix this. But not me, I don't have my doctorate in memeology yet.

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lemmy.ca

NPH making the list TWICE!? Truly we live in the best timeline.

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phx
lemmy.ca

Trying to figure out where Dr Doom would fit. Supposedly he does have a doctorate but it came from Latveria so could be a bit... biased

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THANK YOU. Why is Dr. Pepper the absolute lowest you can go on this chart, lower than Dr. Evil lol

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I don't even like Dr Pepper and I'd rather drink a six pack than watch either of those assholes.

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lemmynsfw.com

The Doctor is only on “TRUST WITH YOUR LIFE” as long as you aren't messing with (or have ever attempted to mess with) humans or other people they care about... otherwise they're on “RUN, RUN VERY FAR”.

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You also don't want to be his companion...you're best off jumping to a different reality and getting far away from London.

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Technically zoidberg should be further right on the training axis than everyone else on it combined, He's literally the best doctor in the universe for every single species other than humans.

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Yes even though Zoidberg is a fictional doctor he is ten times the doctor as that quack phil.

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feddit.nl

You're missing Dr. Zhivago, Dr. Kevorkian and Dr. Shipman.

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prolereply
lemmy.blahaj.zone

Kevorkian wouldn't have dreamt of hurting a person who he hadn't made 100% sure was a candidate for assisted suicide. And that was not an easy thing for him to decide.

He seemed like an extremely principled man.

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Excuse me! Dr Pepper should be an absolute top left corner candidate.

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lemmy.world

I'm just happy to see someone remembers the Spin Doctors.

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One...two princes kneel before you.

One has diamonds in his pockets and never lies. The other wants to buy you rockets and never tells the truth.

What is the one question you could ask of only one of the princes to learn what a prince and lover ought to be so that your father won't eat his hat and disown you?

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I'm curious what the rankings of all the star trek doctors would be.

Like for competence, would Flox (sp?) or EMH top the list?

Or for charisma, would it be Flox or Bashir?

For not taking shit EMH or Bones?

Closest with the captain, Bones or Crusher?

Most victim of the writers, Pulaski or Fitzgerald? (First one at least got a season but the second one didn't even get an actor)

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chiliedoggreply
lemmy.world

The scale goes from "No professional training" to "Doctorate in Medicine."

So to be on the far right you need to be an MD, but having a different doctorate will still be above "no professional training"

It's a weird scale.

Also, it's wrong. Dr Horrible has a PhD in Horribleness, and Doctor Zoidberg has a doctorate in Art History.

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No he has a doctorate in mechanical engineering and a masters in cloning. I dont know if this is true but it fits.

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Dwarf Doc isn't a medical doctor, that's just his nickname. He's a drug connection.

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lemmy.world

Adding Dr. Lizardo to the missing doctors list.

Laugh while you can, monkey boy.

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Comment105reply
lemm.ee

I feel like Dre is a smart guy, he could figure out how to do a tracheotomy.

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Oh wait...Dr. Oz, I don't trust him.

He let his license lapse several years ago, though, and the last decade or so before that, he didn't even practice. He just went on TV to hawk snake oil and designed equipment.

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