Dispelling health myths, fads, exaggerations and misconceptions.
I wrote a book dispelling health myths called HYPE: A Doctor’s Guide to Medical Myths, Exaggerated Claims and Bad Advice– How to Tell What’s Real and What’s Not, to stop our heads from spinning from overwhelming rapid-fire health information.I’m the Director of Pediatric Otolaryngology and Professor of Head and Neck Surgery at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. I’ve been in academic medicine for over two decades, setting the record straight about the latest health fads and misconceptions. As someone who’s had their feet firmly planted in both clinical and academic work, I help patients and families make decisions every day about their health. Living in times filled with suspicion, I find myself dispelling a lot of myths in response to swarms of information triggering fear or unnecessarily pushing us to change our habits overnight.