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As A Surgeon You Have To Have A Controlled Arrogance. If It's Uncontrolled, You Kill People, But You Have To Be Pretty Arrogant To Saw Through A Person's Chest, Take Out Their Heart And Believe You Can Fix It. Then, When You Succeed And The Patient Survives, You Pray, Because It's Only By The Grace Of God That You Get There.

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.

You Learn How To Take Care Of People From The Women In Your Life.

Much Of Eating Is About Customs And Habits, And We've Developed Some Unfortunate Ones. Not Enough Families Eat Together. We Eat In Front Of The Tv While We're Absorbed In A Program. You Know, The Average Person Will Eat Up To 50 Percent More Food When Distracted.

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.