Scary headline, huh?
Alternative MD Andrew Weil was criticised with that line in a national business publication.
“Beware of doctors who sell what they recommend.”
“BUYER BEWARE? The highly respected ‘Nutrition Action Healthletter’, a publication put out by the Center for Science in the Public Interest, in January published a scathing critique of Weil. The writer noted that Weil’s Web site provides “personalized” recommendations for nutritional supplements, yet, “No matter how we tried, we couldn’t get the Advisor to stop recommending that we buy supplements galore” — supplements from Weil’s line, of course.”
– Business Week:
So what’s the big problem here? This: No discrimination. Selling everything to everyone.
The other? Not telling up front that he makes a profit from the stuff he recommends.
You don’t do that to your friends, do you?
Dr. Weil has been doing this for a long time. It is about time he was brought up short. If he had said that he was selling his own products, he might have slipped by. However, recommending his own and selling them – well he finally got caught.
More evidence that the New School way of network marketing is essential. Thanks for the tools.
It seems like this problem is intertwined everywhere. I was just at a Medical Conference where they had speakers talk on the latest and greatest in one particular area (no names to protect the guilty) where in order to be up on the podium speaking most of the presenters had to pay $20,000. So what we were hearing was the info from those who had the biggest bankroll this year.
There was a panel discussion where one of the participants mentioned that you should look for something with “lots of research” and the next participant quietly pointed out that the first gentleman was paid by companies to do research so of course he would think it was essential.
They then mentioned that as they were being paid by companies to represent their products that we should “take everything said here with a grain of salt.”
There have been restrictions on the amount of funding that can come from big companies and each doctor must disclose his financial ties to the lecture material they are presenting even when they are being paid for the research.
I am so proud to be doing business in a way that discloses at the beginning. It feels really good! So I highly recommend NMC and Kim’s training programs.
As long as people are up front about the relationship they have with the product they are telling me about – I’m fine – it’s the ones who talk as if they are independent of the company/research/product that annoy me….
I assume the highly paid TV and radio personalities who hawk products would never use those products if they were not being paid to do the ads…same sort of “lack of truth in advertising” that is going on….
We all have learned form Kim to be honest about the fact that we are selling…”I market products for…..” says it right up front….
We are the pioneers of a new way to be honest in sales…a strange concept for some out there
Lynn
http://growolderbetter.com
I went to Dr. Weil’s site a long time ago and how can he tell what supplements you need by the questions he ask, I don’t know.Its
like a doctor prescribing over the internet. I’m just happy I found an alternative and NMC.
Before I even got into the marketing products I found it strange for a DR to suggest something. Then as I learned he was getting my insurance payment and a cut from the products it makes you look at them differant. There are Dr’s around this area that are selling more product than prescriptions (well maybe not quiet that much)
My wife is a nurse practitioner and runs a specialty weight loss and natural hormone balancing clinic in Utah. We have our product’s logo right on our door sign. Their products are part and parcel of our overall treatment plan for weight loss, and there’s never a hidden agenda. The products are displayed prominently at the front counter. It’s a fee-for-service clinic, so we’re not beholden to any insurance companies, and my wife tells her patients up front that she has a relationship with our company. She’s seen hundreds of patients, and _very_ few have ever had an issue with her protocols.