Mehmet Oz

Entertainer

59 Quotes

In Turkey, you're not allowed to be left alone in the hospital. The nurse teaches the family how to do things, and somebody is always there with the patient.

What happens when you have great grief in your life is the arteries of that heart begins to spasms down, just literally squeezes down like this because you're feeling the tension of your life and then the heart muscle itself will also begin - to get stressed out.

Food is no longer sacred to us: in becoming too efficient we've changed its nature.

Your genetics load the gun. Your lifestyle pulls the trigger.

Unfortunately, several companies are attempting to deceive consumers through the unauthorized use of my image or my name, and my attorneys are pursuing those making these false claims.

Most food you drop is still perfectly edible. If it was in your eyesight the whole time, you can pick it up and eat it.

You learn how to take care of people from the women in your life.

Medicine has always been my calling.

I've always felt that, when I looked at my tombstone, it shouldn't say, 'Mehmet Oz banged out 10,000 open-heart operations.' I've probably done 5,000. Am I any better at it than 10,000? He shook his head. It's just a different number on the tombstone.

I like shows that have some level of intelligence to them. When it's not as predictable, when you don't know what's coming at you.

The opposite of anger is not calmness, its empathy.

What we have now is doctors who are actually better technically at what they're doing in their specialty than 30 or 40 years ago, but we lost the relationship, when the doctor would look people in the eye and say, 'I care about you. We can do this together.'

The biggest mistake people make is to try to lose too much weight too fast.

In my business, if I get too close to you and you die, it hurts me. And so you develop a natural inclination not to be close to the patient, so that if things don't work out ideally, you can still get up the next day and care for the next patient.

We don't walk. We overeat because we've made it easy to overeat. We have fast-food joints on every corner. By the way, the 'we' is all of us. It's not the government. It's all of us doing this together.

We are spending most of our time in American health care fixing the mistakes that either we in the profession are causing or our patients are, without recognizing it, causing to themselves.

I saw many people who had advanced heart disease and I was so frustrated because I knew if they just knew how to do the right thing, simple lifestyle and diet steps, that the entire trajectory of their life and health would have been different.

Medicine grounds me, it centers me, that's why I continue to do it.

I meditate and I'm passionate about it.

I get up at the same time every morning.

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