PRIMETIME PHYSICIAN
As a boy, Mehmet Oz watched his father perform painful procedures on sick patients who later thanked him for saving their lives. These events set the stage for the medical career of the Turkish-American cardiothoracic surgeon cum media star. “Dad changed the lives of those around him,” Oz says of his mentor, who died in February at age 93. “Because of his work, I fell in love with medicine.”
During the years Oz served as a health expert on The Oprah Winfrey Show, he developed a tremendous audience that followed him to
