Dr. Mehmet Oz, heart surgeon, is now in his third season as a talk show host. It began airing on 13WHAM in September.
His is a demanding schedule-- even for a fast talking, multi-tasking guy, but Dr. oz has no plans to give anything up.
During a visit to set of the Dr. Oz show in New York, he told 13WHAM’s Ginny Ryan, "My culture, my heritage, what grounds me is medicine. Practiced in the hospital like it's always been practiced-when you look patients in the eye-there's something pure and authentic about that".
People open up to Dr. oz on television, not unlike patients might in the privacy of his office. It's as trust he's worked hard to achieve and the personal exchange is not a one way street.
In this month's Shape magazine-- Oz and his wife give intimate details of their 26 year marriage. He says he thinks people are curious about how he faces the same problems they face.
The biggest secret he's learned about marriage? Dr. Oz says, "You marry a woman as a man she's exactly the one you want to marry and she changes.
Women marry the guy they know he can become and doesn't want to change so from day one-you're heading in different directions". To stay together-- Dr. Oz recommends reconnecting in every relationship every 7 years.
He credits, wife Lisa, and the mother of their four children-- for encouraging him to do a television show, an effort he says keep people **out of operating rooms.
Now, Oz has the best of both worlds: going into hospital rooms and living rooms every day.
He has found a way to do both jobs and hopefully-- the TV job will make all doctors' jobs easier. "For me the biggest barometer of success is that everyday I wake up and know I'm doing the right thing.
Something that takes advantage of all the skills I have but also serves others", says Oz.
Ginny Ryan, Anchor
