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" Most allopathic doctors think practitioners of alternative medicine are all quacks. They're not. Often they're sharp people who think differently about disease. "

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" We're all human beings, but some of us are more sophisticated at covering our flaws. We're just smart enough to lie to ourselves that everything is OK. "

Mehmet Oz

Flaws

Lie

" I'm sure people think that I'm out in left field you know, playing by myself. "

" Hostility comes from loneliness, from not seeing yourself like a drop falling into the ocean of humanity like everyone else. "

" In my business, if I get too close to you and you die, it hurts me. And so you develop a natural inclination not to be close to the patient, so that if things don't work out ideally, you can still get up the next day and care for the next patient. "

Mehmet Oz

Work

You

" Medicine has always been my calling. "

" What we have now is doctors who are actually better technically at what they're doing in their specialty than 30 or 40 years ago, but we lost the relationship, when the doctor would look people in the eye and say, 'I care about you. We can do this together.' "

" I think that we're beginning to globalize medicine now. You have to take Eastern approaches and bring them to the West, and share West with the East. "

" Biology always beats will power. "

" I meditate and I'm passionate about it. "

" I do practice what I preach when it comes to nutrition. "

" In Turkey, you're not allowed to be left alone in the hospital. The nurse teaches the family how to do things, and somebody is always there with the patient. "

" The opposite of anger is not calmness, its empathy. "

" My mother was all about unconditional love, and I don't think we give that to our patients a lot. At the end of the day, what they really need you to do is to look at them in the eye and say, 'I'm here for you. I'm going to make sure this works out.' "

" No matter how old you are, no matter how much you weigh, you can still control the health of your body. "

" We don't walk. We overeat because we've made it easy to overeat. We have fast-food joints on every corner. By the way, the 'we' is all of us. It's not the government. It's all of us doing this together. "

" I feel differently immediately when I start to put weight on. I don't like that sluggish, blunted disposition that I have when that happens. "

Mehmet Oz

Feel

Start

" There are a lot of food Nazis in the U.S., but I believe if you can show people what's really important, they'll judge the rest for themselves. "

" We are spending most of our time in American health care fixing the mistakes that either we in the profession are causing or our patients are, without recognizing it, causing to themselves. "

" I think I'm a better doctor than I am a husband. I give myself a good grade as a doctor, then the next best grade as a father, and the worst grade as a husband. "

" Every hour you sit at work increases your mortality 11 percent. Think about that. "

" I was lucky enough to marry a wonderful chef. "

" I used to bicycle to work across the George Washington Bridge, but my wife told me it wasn't professional. "

" If you don't know your blood pressure, it's like not knowing the value of your company. "

" I like shows that have some level of intelligence to them. When it's not as predictable, when you don't know what's coming at you. "

Mehmet Oz

Level

Know

" You need to be proactive, carve out time in your schedule, and take responsibility for being the healthiest person you can be - no one else is going to do it for you. "

" At the end of the day, sleep is a barometer of your emotional health. And so if you're not in the right place where you need to be, then you're going to have voices keeping you up at night because you have to work through those issues. "

" Not enough families eat together. We eat in front of the TV while we're absorbed in a program. "

" I get up at the same time every morning. "

Mehmet Oz

Get

Morning

" I've got so many weaknesses. "

" People say their weight is genetic. But it turns out that people who are overweight don't just have overweight kids. They also have overweight pets. That's not genetic. "