Should Dr Oz, a Prominent Surgeon, Be Fired for Quackery?

September 24, 2015

(Medscape) – Mehmet Oz, by most accounts, is a talented cardiothoracic surgeon on the faculty at Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York. But there is a very different Dr Oz, a TV personality with a huge following who endorses plant-based “magic” weight-loss cures; communicating with the dead to reduce stress; homeopathy; “miracle” appetite suppressants; using Reiki, or “healing energy,” to help patients survive risky surgery and many other “magic” remedies and “miracle” cures for which there isn’t much or any medical evidence.