MSNBC's Dr. Nancy more audience-friendly than CNN's Dr. Gupta

[SuperTrouper]

She seems to be more down to earth and explains her topics and conducts her interviews so the Average American understands them. I do like Dr. Gupta but his reports are more complex and sophisticated that you need to have some understanding of medicine and/or biology to grasp the points that he is trying to make.

[rcrush]

1. Wasnt she the one talking about how weed destroys lives on her show yesterday?

Or was that some other daytime crapathon on some other 'news' channel?

[KharmaTrain]

5. She Was Faily Even Handed On The Topic

She loaded up the panel with the usual suspects. She tried to nail Barry McCaffrey on the friviolous sliming of medical marijuana...all but forcing McCaffrey to admit it did have medical purposes and saying it was the smoking that was dangerous, not the THC.

Compared to the poor offerings on the teevee (CNN is intolerable), she's the best of a bad lot.

[immoderate]

6. Yep. She was a wealth of misinformation.

She also advanced the myth that you couldn't get good weed in the 60s.

--imm

[Uzybone]

2. She has her own daily show, Gupta does not

it makes a difference when you have an hour to explain issues vs a segment.

[SuperTrouper]

3. Gupta has a show, too: Paging Dr. Gupta

[Uzybone]

4. is he on everyday?

[SuperTrouper]

8. No, I think it is on weekends. It is quite good and well researched but some information

may go over the heads of average Americans.

[Wapsie B]

10. He's on CNN Health network, which is on many Drs. waiting rooms

around the country.

[TheCoxwain]

7. I thought it is more a segment than a show

[SuperTrouper]

9. He has a segment and a show, too

[Metta]

11. She allowed guests to give false, scare mongering info re: marijuana, unchallenged.

yesterday. Full of inacuracies and fear mongering.

[dkf]

12. I guess all the pot advocates are unrecommending this.

funny.

[Robyn66]

13. I am no fan of Dr. Nancy

I saw her on Morning Joe one morning a few months ago (which I normally avoid) and she was talking about the reason health care was so high in this country. She said it was because doctors were ordering all these scans and biopsies when there was just a suspicion of something like cancer. She said that if there is no history in the family most of the time these aren't necessary.

I have news for her, I was diagnosed with breast cancer last year and there is no history of it in my family. I had not one, but THREE MRI's that were deemed medically necessary. I am blessed ot have very good health insurance.

In my opinion she is a heartless bitch.

[question everything]

14. Is this Dr. Nancy Snyderman?

She has been around for many years, started with either CBS or ABC morning show.

She is very knowledgeable and usually talks about topics that matter to families, rather than more research ones.

Several months ago, when the results came, that vaccinations do not cause autism, she was very emphatic about it. When the host - I think - was trying to interject about a "theory" she shot back - there is no "theory." Again and again.

[Robyn66]

15. Yes, I used to like her too

until she went on the rant about so called "un necessary" testing and malpractice insurance. I have agreed with a lot of what she has said in the past but to want people to be denied tests that could end up saving their lives is just wrong and heartless.

[question everything]

16. Are these tests that would save lives, or cover the rear of physicians?

There are too many tests that physicians prescribe to have them in case of yes, malpractice lawsuit and this is one cause of the increase in health costs well above inflation.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

17. She has been a corporate mouth piece for years. She worked for Johnson & Johnson, Disney and GE.

In Wikipedia I found a little tidbit about her violating insider trading rules.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Snyderman#Career
In 1999, Snyderman returned over $50,000 to DrKoop.com, a healthcare website based in Austin, Texas, after violating insider trading rules prohibiting corporate officers and directors from profiting from a stock sale within six months of buying shares. At the time, she was a director of DrKoop.com, founded by a former Surgeon General of the United States, C. Everett Koop. Her husband, an investment banker, bought 1,650 shares of DrKoop.com, during its initial public offering (IPO) for $9 a share, and sold it a month later at $41.27 a share.<3>