https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgy78q/dr-oz-pee-drinking

  • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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    2 years ago

    It's honestly not. Doctors using their smell and taste to diagnose symptoms of medical conditions is a pretty well-established practice. The headline is good for a laugh, but its got absolutely nothing to do with sex.

    • dead [he/him]
      hexagon
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      2 years ago

      Do you think modern doctors are tasting their patients urine to diagnose them? Doctors tasting their patients to diagnose them was a well-established practice -- 200 years ago.

      We have lab equipment now. We have technology. Normal doctors aren't tasting piss. Normal people are not saying urine is like wine.

      • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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        2 years ago

        Do you think modern doctors are tasting their patients urine to diagnose them?

        I think modern doctors understand the symptoms and that many have a sense of humor about it.

        • dead [he/him]
          hexagon
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          2 years ago

          He says that he drank his own pee in the video. We all get that talking about what pee tastes like is funny. Many people on hexbear make pee jokes. The weird thing is that he is so descriptive about the flavor, describing it as similar to cherries. There is no consensus that urine tastes like cherries. That's his own opinion. Dr Oz formed the thought that urine tastes like cherries based on his own experience with tasting urine. If you google search urine cherries, there's not anyone else saying that urine tastes like cherries.

          • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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            2 years ago

            The weird thing is that he is so descriptive about the flavor, describing it as similar to cherries.

            Yes, that's the joke. Doctors recognizing symptoms by taste and smell, then regarding the conditions like a sommelier would describe wine.

            Dr Oz formed the thought that urine tastes like cherries based on his own experience with tasting urine.

            This is a joke a rich doctor would make to a bunch of wine snobs.