Posted April 17, 2015 7:27 PM ET; Last updated April 18, 2015 7:58 PM ET
Embattled TV and Columbia University Physician
[From article]
‘I bring the public information that will help them on their path to be their best selves,’ Oz said in a statement released through a representative of The Dr. Oz Show, according to USA Today.
He continued: ‘We provide multiple points of view, including mine, which is offered without conflict of interest. That doesn't sit well with certain agendas which distort the facts.'
He continued: ‘We provide multiple points of view, including mine, which is offered without conflict of interest. That doesn't sit well with certain agendas which distort the facts.'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3044457/Dr-Oz-hits-doctors-campaigning-booted-Columbia-University-faculty-lack-integrity-quack-treatments.html
Dr Oz hits back at doctors campaigning to get him booted from Columbia University faculty because of his 'lack of integrity' and 'quack treatments'
Dr Mehmet Oz is vice chairman at Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons and is a professor of surgery
He said in a statement that his show provides 'multiple points of view', including his, 'which is offered without conflict of interest'
Comes after ten top doctors sent letter to school urging for Oz's dismissal
Said there's no scientific proof his 'miracle' weight-loss supplements work
Columbia said it 'is committed to the principle of academic freedom'
University has not removed TV celebrity doctor from his faculty position
By KELLY MCLAUGHLIN and EVAN BLEIER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 23:35 EST, 17 April 2015 | UPDATED: 08:39 EST, 18 April 2015
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From left to right, Dr Phil McGraw, financial advisor Suze Orman, host Oprah Winfrey, Dr Mehmet Oz and interior designer Nate Berkus participate in The Oprah Winfrey Show live from Radio City Music Hall in 2010.
[From article]
The group of nationally known doctors, in a lacerating letter to his boss, called for the TV doctor’s dismissal from the prestigious post of vice chairman of Columbia University’s department of surgery.
“He’s a quack and a fake and a charlatan,” said Dr. Henry Miller of Stanford, the first person to sign the poison-pen letter.
[. . .]
“I think I know the motivation at Columbia,” he continued. “They’re star-struck, and like having on their faculty the best-known doctor in the country. But the fact is that his advice endangers patients, and this doesn’t seem to faze them. Whether they’re hoping Oprah will come and endow a center for homeopathic medicine, I don't know.”
The one-page letter was also signed by Dr. Gilbert Ross, executive director of the American Council on Science and Health.
[. . .]
The pull-no-punches attack on the surgeon was sent to Dr. Lee Goldman, dean of faculties for Health Sciences and Medicine at the Ivy League school.
“Dr. Oz is guilty of either outrageous conflicts of interest or flawed judgments about what constitutes appropriate medical treatments, or both,” the letter concluded.
“Whatever the nature of his pathology, members of the public are being misled and endangered, which makes Dr. Oz’s presence on the faculty of a prestigious medical institution unacceptable.”
Although his television duties forced Oz to cut back on his hours, he remains a presence at Columbia as a researcher, teacher and physician.
[. . .]
It’s not the first time the 54-year-old Oz has come under fire for his on-air persona. At a Washington appearance in June 2014, a Senate panel blasted Ozfor his endorsement of “miracle” weight loss products that didn’t work.
http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/doctors-dr-oz-removed-columbia-faculty-article-1.2187815
'A fake and a charlatan': Doctors call for Dr. Oz to be dismissed from Columbia surgery faculty over alleged quack science
BY LARRY MCSHANE
Dr Oz hits back at doctors campaigning to get him booted from Columbia University faculty because of his 'lack of integrity' and 'quack treatments'
Dr Mehmet Oz is vice chairman at Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons and is a professor of surgery
He said in a statement that his show provides 'multiple points of view', including his, 'which is offered without conflict of interest'
Comes after ten top doctors sent letter to school urging for Oz's dismissal
Said there's no scientific proof his 'miracle' weight-loss supplements work
Columbia said it 'is committed to the principle of academic freedom'
University has not removed TV celebrity doctor from his faculty position
By KELLY MCLAUGHLIN and EVAN BLEIER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 23:35 EST, 17 April 2015 | UPDATED: 08:39 EST, 18 April 2015
* * *
From left to right, Dr Phil McGraw, financial advisor Suze Orman, host Oprah Winfrey, Dr Mehmet Oz and interior designer Nate Berkus participate in The Oprah Winfrey Show live from Radio City Music Hall in 2010.
[From article]
The group of nationally known doctors, in a lacerating letter to his boss, called for the TV doctor’s dismissal from the prestigious post of vice chairman of Columbia University’s department of surgery.
“He’s a quack and a fake and a charlatan,” said Dr. Henry Miller of Stanford, the first person to sign the poison-pen letter.
[. . .]
“I think I know the motivation at Columbia,” he continued. “They’re star-struck, and like having on their faculty the best-known doctor in the country. But the fact is that his advice endangers patients, and this doesn’t seem to faze them. Whether they’re hoping Oprah will come and endow a center for homeopathic medicine, I don't know.”
The one-page letter was also signed by Dr. Gilbert Ross, executive director of the American Council on Science and Health.
[. . .]
The pull-no-punches attack on the surgeon was sent to Dr. Lee Goldman, dean of faculties for Health Sciences and Medicine at the Ivy League school.
“Dr. Oz is guilty of either outrageous conflicts of interest or flawed judgments about what constitutes appropriate medical treatments, or both,” the letter concluded.
“Whatever the nature of his pathology, members of the public are being misled and endangered, which makes Dr. Oz’s presence on the faculty of a prestigious medical institution unacceptable.”
Although his television duties forced Oz to cut back on his hours, he remains a presence at Columbia as a researcher, teacher and physician.
[. . .]
It’s not the first time the 54-year-old Oz has come under fire for his on-air persona. At a Washington appearance in June 2014, a Senate panel blasted Ozfor his endorsement of “miracle” weight loss products that didn’t work.
http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/doctors-dr-oz-removed-columbia-faculty-article-1.2187815
'A fake and a charlatan': Doctors call for Dr. Oz to be dismissed from Columbia surgery faculty over alleged quack science
BY LARRY MCSHANE
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Published: Thursday, April 16, 2015, 2:29 PM Updated: Friday, April 17, 2015, 4:39 PM
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