Trouble in Oz: Some docs want him out

Candace Stuart | | Cardiovascular Business | Structural Heart Disease

More popularly known as the TV personality Dr. Oz, Mehmet Oz, MD, a cardiothoracic surgery professor at Columbia University in New York City, responded to critics calling for his ouster from the school. Ten physicians sent a letter to the medical school’s dean citing his “lack of integrity,” among other things, the Washington Post reported.

Dr. Oz responds after prominent physicians call for his firing from Columbia Un…

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