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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.

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.  

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

}}</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.

[https://www.youtube.com Youtube] maintains a very large collection of videos on a wide variety of subjects by and about Dr. Öz.  

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]].