Season 2 Episode 13

No Free Lunch

Air date: Feb 26, 1990

Medical Cases in This Episode

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1 case identified

Case 1

Quack Powder-Diet Treatment

Mike refuses to share airtime with a quack doctor promoting a powder-diet treatment.

Episode shows: Mike refuses to share airtime with a quack doctor promoting a powder-diet treatment.
Clinical takeaway: Quack Powder-Diet Treatment is included because the episode summary supports a concrete Doctor Doctor clinical or patient-safety issue rather than only general interpersonal plot.

Accuracy 3.5/5quack-powder-diet-treatmentfad-dietmedical-misinformation

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