- Born
- Birth nameMehmet Cengiz Oz
- Nickname
- America's Doctor
- Height6′ 0½″ (1.84 m)
- Mehmet Oz was born on June 11, 1960 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Mom and Dad (2017), John Q (2002) and The Dr. Oz Show (2009). He has been married to Lisa Oz since June 29, 1985. They have four children.
- He's an American citizen since he's born in the US and he earned his Turkish citizenship after completing the mandatory military service which is required for all healthy Turkish men once they are 19 years old. This also means if there was a war before 2001 (before he turned 41), he could have been called for duty.
- Received his undergraduate degree (BS) in biology from Harvard University (1982).
- Is the Irving Associate Professor of Cardiac Surgery at Columbia University.
- Is Turkish-American.
- Received his dual degrees (MD and MBA) from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and Wharton Business School (1986).
- There's a strange, discordant pathology to the state of being stuck. Nobody who starts smoking plans to be hooked for life. Nobody who's obese secretly wants to stay that way. When a doctor or family member pleads with us to make lifesaving changes, we mean it when we say, 'I know, I know, I should, I will'. What's left unsaid is the killer caveat: 'Just not today'. Over the years, I have had more conversations like this with patients than I can count, so many that the phrase 'I know I should' has become a red flag - a sad predictor that I will probably one day crack open those patients' sternums in the operating room, trying to undo the damage that poor choices and unhealthy lifestyles have done to their hearts.
- To [doctors] life is never static. Everything is either growing or dying. When you delay your diet until tomorrow or wait to quit smoking until your next birthday, you are choosing, in a day-to-day way, to follow the route of dying.
- if you take responsibility for saving a life, then you have to take the blame for losing life
- surgery is ultimately controlled arrogance.
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