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

  • 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.