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'''{{FULLPAGENAME}}''', M.D.{{MD}}, ({{LifeData|birth=1960-06-11|birthplace=Cleveland, Ohio|birthcountry=[[USA]]|death=|deathplace=|deathcountry=}}) was born in the [[United States]] to Turkish Muslim immigrant parents. As one would expect, he likely was [[circumcised]] as a child in accordance with Turkish and Muslim practice. He is fluent in both Turkish and English. Öz has dual citizenship in both Turkey and the United States.
He is a physician and heart surgeon, but retired to become a television personality after an appearance on the Oprah Winfrey show and had his own daytime television show for many years. His show was called [[Dr. Oz]]. It had to be cancelled when he entered politics.
Mehmet Öz is classified as a [[circumcised doctors| circumcised doctor]]. It is typical for circumcised doctors to have little knowledge or understanding of the [[foreskinned]] [[penis]] — a normal body part.
==Politics==
Dr. Öz entered politics in 2022 when he ran as a Republican in Pennsylvania for the United States Senate. He lost to Democrat John Fetterman.
==Nomination==
President-elect Donald J. Trump has nominated Öz to head the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.<ref>{{REFnews
|quote=
}}</ref> If his nomination is approved by the United States Senate, then he would report to Secretary of Health and Human Services [[Robert Francis Kennedy, Jr.]]
==Conflicts of interest==
National Public Radio (NPR) reported that Dr. Öz., who is quite wealthy, has "invested a substantial part of his wealth in health care and food firms", which may give him a conflict-of interest.<ref>{{REFnews
|quote=Oz recently held investments, some shared with family, in health care, pharmaceutical firms and tech companies with business in the health care sector, such as Amazon.
}}</ref>
==Views on child circumcision==
Mehmet Öz collaborated with Michael F. Roizen to write a book about having a baby. In that book they stated with regard to [[circumcision]] of newborn infant boys:
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The comments on [[circumcision]] by Drs. Roizen & Öz are illustrative of a problem that plagues American pediatric medicine. American males have been largely [[circumcised]] at birth for several generations so when they became medical doctors they also become [[circumcised doctors]], who usually are completely ignorant of the sixteen functions of the human [[foreskin]],<ref>{{REFweb
|url=http://www.savingsons.org/2015/09/foreskin-and-its-16-functions-not-just.html
|title=Foreskin and its 16+ Functions: Not 'Just Skin'
|last=Anonymous
|first=
|init=
|author-link=
|publisher=Saving our Sons
|date=2024
|accessdate=2024-11-24
}}</ref> Roizen & Öz make no mention of the extreme [[pain]], the physical and psychic [[trauma]], the possible [[risks_and_complications]] of surgery, the violation of [[human rights]] of the child, or the medical ethics of amputating a normal, healthy body part from a fellow human being without consent of the patient.<ref>{{REFweb
|url=https://intactamerica.org/arguments-against-circumcision/
|title=Cutting Through the Myths: 5 Compelling Arguments Against Circumcision
|last=-Kristel
|first=Alissa
|init=
|author-link=
|publisher=Intact America
|date=2024-11-19
|accessdate=2024-11-25
}}</ref> Goldman (2004) argued that there is much inappropriate [[bias]] in favor of child [[circumcision]] among American health care professionals.<ref>{{REFjournal
|last=Goldman
|first=
|init=R
|author-link=
|etal=no
|title=Circumcision Policy: A Psychosocial Perspective
|trans-title=
|language=
|journal=Paediatr Child Health
|location=
|date=2004-11
|season=
|volume=9
|issue=9
|article=
|page=
|pages=630-3
|url=https://www.circumcision.org/wp-content/docs/CircumcisionPolicy_A_Psychosocial_Perspective.pdf
|archived=
|quote=
|pubmedID=19675851
|pubmedCID=2724127
|DOI=10.1093/pch/9.9.630
|accessdate=2024-11-24
}}</ref> that certainly applies to the work of Roizen & Öz.
==Video==
[https://www.youtube.com Youtube] maintains a very large collection of videos on a wide variety of subjects by and about Dr. Öz.
{{PUB}}
A search at PUBMED found 372 articles of which Dr. Öz was a listed author. All are in area the field of the cardiovascular medical science. Dr. Öz has not published regarding the [[foreskin]], [[circumcision]], or [[genital integrity]].
{{SEEALSO}}
* [[Circumcised]]
* [[Islam]]
* [[United States of America]]
{{LINKS}}
* {{URLwebsite|https://www.doctoroz.com|2024-11-21}}
* {{URLwikipedia|Mehmet_Oz|Mehmet Oz}}
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{{REF}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Oez, Mehmet Cengiz}}
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