Donald Trump appoints “Dr. Oz”, a star TV surgeon, to a key health position

This 64-year-old man is known for being a small screen star, who failed to enter politics.

After the appointment of vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Junior as head of Health, Donald Trump announced, Tuesday, November 19, that he would appoint Mehmet Oz, a former star surgeon on TV shows, to manage the enormous public health insurance program. American. “The United States is plunged into a public health crisis and there is no doctor more qualified than Dr. Oz to restore America to health.” declared the president-elect in a press release.

Dubbed in the 2000s by the popess of American television Oprah Winfrey, who invited him as an expert on her set, he had his own show for more than ten years, the “Dr. Oz Show”, which made him a celebrity. This 64-year-old son of Turkish immigrants even has his star on the famous “Walk of Fame” in Hollywood.

But its health recommendations, sometimes punctuated with qualifiers like “magic” or “miracle”earned him criticism from colleagues, and he was also accused of having promoted ineffective or potentially dangerous treatments or food supplements, particularly on Covid. Candidate dubbed by Donald Trump in a highly scrutinized election in Pennsylvania, he failed to be elected to the US Senate in 2022.