dr. phil

I'm seeing a proliferation of online medical services, both physical and mental, and am, shall I say, skeptical about them? How does a doctor know when a patient isn't drug seeking or Munchausen? Can a real evaluation be done with no physical contact? I know there are situations, such as being...

It was on Friday. I was putzing around the house doing some manic cleaning, and after awhile I realized that a missing person/suspected homicide case was the topic of discussion. Being interested in crime topics, I paid more attention. OK, some FBI profilers weighed in. The family interviewed...

May 27, 2014 (Tuesday) Dr Phil Show 3:00 – 4:00 PM EDT "Family Dramas, Mysteries and Facing the Unknown" Dr. Phil taps into the spiritual world with help from the next generation of psychic mediums, Thomas John and Bill Philipps. When did they first realize they had psychic abilities? And, what...

From an open letter to Dr Phil by Douglas Mesner at Examiner: http://www.examiner.com/article/journalist-denounces-dr-phil-open-letter-a-public-mental-health-menace Just this week, Dr Phil was promoting the use of psychics in missing persons cases. Now this?! The man is a menace...

Hello, Some of you here may remember me. I run a nonprofit which assists family members of missing persons in the US, Project Jason. I also authored the blog series, "Psychics and Missing Persons" and was a speaker at TAM some years back. I used to be a fairly frequent poster, but my...

The "biggest douche in the universe" is going to be on the famed "doctor"'s show Tuesday. I'm not a regular watcher of his programs, but I've seen enough to know he comes down on the skeptical side of things when it comes to certain charlatans. However...I wonder how safe he's going to play it...

Rebecca Zahau died at the home of her boyfriend, a wealthy businessman, under unusual circumstances. She was found nude, with her hands and feet bound, hanging from a courtyard balcony with a rope around her neck. At the time of Zahau's death, her boyfriend's 6-year-old son was in a coma that...

The article below is mainly about Dr. Phil, but Miss Browne is mentioned a few times. Scammers prey on her fans, and she finds it "frustrating"? There's a tiny bit of irony in there somewhere. http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/4686277.html

I guess you can't really call this good news because there are apparently some scam artists here trying to pass themselves off as Dr. Phil and of course, The Claw. Obviously you can't be glad that some people are trying to scam Sylvia because it just makes her look like an innocent victim...

Today was a follow up show on the polygraph episode discussed here earier. All of a sudden Dr. Phil is saying things like : "The polygraph isn't fool proof, it's just an investigative tool', and has shifted his focus from the polygraph proving guilt, to the subject's admission of guilt after...

I just saw a commercial yesterday, I think it was, for an episode of the Dr. Phil show. The episode is about a teenage boy that the parents fear is potentially molesting his little sister. There are some emotional and dramatic clips in the commercial, but towards the end Phil tells the kid...

so Dr. Phil put out a diet book this week. It has shot up to no.1 on the bestsellers list. ok, so no big deal, we all know diet books are big sellers ...but has anyone seen Dr. Phil? Granted he's not obese but he's a burly man, certainly not thin, has a nice spare tire going. fat people...