But talking with patients is a vital part of being a doctor, says Roberts.
Anyone taking the product should stop immediately and contact a doctor, it says.
And in this economy some patients are consulting their pharmacists for advice instead of spending money to see a doctor, Owen says.
"Absolutely these diets must be done under the care of a doctor, " says CNNHealth.com's diet and fitness expert, Dr. Melina Jampolis, a physician nutrition specialist.
One client, who is divorcing a rich doctor, says she signed on with BBL only after maxing out her credit cards and selling jewelry to pay the bills, but she's since referred the firm to seven prospective divorcees friends who don't have the cash to end their bad marriages.
"The integration would not be a picnic, " says Ken Doctor, a media analyst with media market tracker Outsell.
But the "too limited selection" at launch could be a big problem for Ongo, says Ken Doctor, a media analyst.
"It has a lot of health implications, " says Flavier, a doctor and public health specialist.
"Don't go to a doctor just because everyone says he's so good, " cautions rahul Parikh, M.
"In a word, it's a great medication, " says Jed Black, a doctor at Stanford University's Center for Narcolepsy.
At 30, she met and married a German doctor but left him, amicably she says, to become a Buddhist nun and pursue enlightenment in India.
"One doesn't know, but with our business model one feels that at least you have a decent shot on goal, " says Jeff Calcagno , a medical doctor who now serves as chief financial officer of Vela Pharmaceuticals .
But former Wales skipper Jones, a doctor based in Cardiff, says the prognosis is good.
Olive Vitrogonskaya(ph), a doctor like her husband, says bribery is an inescapable part of life.
"You might be there for a cough, but the doctor says, 'Let's talk about this, ' " Lanier says.
Pro "athletes might be scared off or intimidated by antidoping organizations from working with such a suspended doctor, " he says.
Connie says at one point a complete stranger offered Kevin a part of his liver, not knowing Kevin needed a whole organ, and one doctor, she says, "showed genuine emotion" after a liver earmarked for Kevin turned out to be HIV positive.
Despite being a natural comedian, Moosa says he always wanted to be a doctor.
"He was displayed the way you'd see a skeleton in a doctor's office, " says Marie Galbraith, the museum's executive director.
Medicaid and Medicare patients are going to find it increasingly difficult to find a doctor regardless of what President Obama says to the contrary.
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In another Brazilian case a doctor is suing Ranbaxy because she says its version of Roche's acne medicine Accutane caused her son to have a stroke.
Most homeless kids are not immunized nor ever seen by a doctor except in an emergency, says Chad Audi, president of Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries, which provides meals and housing.
David Aronson, an attorney in Manhattan, says he represented a doctor who had just finished a gut renovation of his new Park Avenue apartment when he and his wife decided to separate.
As Goran Sjonell, Sweden's most distinguished family doctor, says, a system in which a third party the council pays hospitals per treatment risks stimulating over-production and raising costs, which is why caps have been imposed on hospital revenues.
Gregg Bloche, a lawyer and doctor at Georgetown and Johns Hopkins, says he expects that this could be the start of a trend.
"It's a little bit of detective work, " says Charles Cutler, a primary-care doctor in Norristown, Pa.
"The best we can offer them now is having them practice looking at a spot on the wall while shaking their heads, " says Della Santina, who is also a doctor.
But there is a wider and more complex issue to address than counting units, says former GP Ian Banks, now a doctor in accident and emergency in Belfast.
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