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.

In 2009 The Dr. As The Times reporter explained the significance of this fact: "While few people would fill out a detailed questionnaire about their health and hand it over to a drug company looking for suggestions for new medications that is essentially what RealAge is doing. I would take us all back a thousand years when our ancestors lived in small villages and there was always a healer in that village.

For his assiduous promotion of quackery Oz has been awarded an unprecedented three Pigasus Awards. Oz first appeared on the The Oprah Winfrey Show in 2004 and later on Larry King Live and other TV programs.