{"id":16922,"date":"2024-11-20T20:11:35","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T21:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=16922"},"modified":"2024-11-20T21:24:49","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T21:24:49","slug":"dr-oz-has-a-checkered-health-care-record-what-to-know-about-key-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=16922","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Oz Has a Checkered Health Care Record: What to Know About Key Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The heart surgeon turned TV star has championed healthy lifestyle habits. But he\u2019s also promoted sham diet pills and ineffective Covid-19 treatments.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAmerica\u2019s doctor\u201d could soon have an even bigger hand in shaping health care in the United States.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, President-elect Donald J. Trump announced that he would nominate Dr. Mehmet Oz, a longtime TV personality, to run the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, a powerful role that would give him control over a more than $1 trillion budget and influence over drug price negotiations, medication coverage decisions, the Affordable Care Act and more.<\/p>\n

Dr. Oz, a heart surgeon by training, first gained fame with appearances on \u201cThe Oprah Winfrey Show\u201d and shot to stardom with the debut of his own daytime program, \u201cThe Dr. Oz Show,\u201d in 2009. On and off the screen, he has used his influence as one of the nation\u2019s most recognizable doctors to champion healthy habits like a nutritious diet. But he has also sown misinformation \u2014 about Covid treatments, weight loss hacks and unproven supplements. He has invested in drug companies, even as he has publicly taken aim at Big Pharma, and has profited from a medical device that he helped invent but that has been subject to several recalls.<\/p>\n

Over roughly two decades in the public eye, Dr. Oz has drawn the ire of medical experts, members of Congress and even his own peers, including a group of 10 doctors who called for him to be fired from a faculty position at Columbia University, arguing he had shown a \u201cdisdain for science<\/a>.\u201d (The university appeared to quietly cut its public ties<\/a> with the physician in 2022.)<\/p>\n

Dr. Oz did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

His nomination has alarmed some doctors and those who work in public health. \u201cI just don\u2019t know what side of Dr. Oz we\u2019re going to see,\u201d said Dr. Pieter Cohen, a physician and associate professor at Harvard Medical School who studies supplements. \u201cI hope we see the meticulous cardiothoracic surgeon, and I hope we don\u2019t see the promoter of unproven botanicals.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Here are five key areas of Dr. Oz\u2019s track record on health.<\/p>\n