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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. ↗

— Mehmet Oz

#arrogant #because #believe #chest #controlled

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

— Mehmet Oz

#calmness #empathy #opposite

I don't operate on smokers. I tell cigarette smokers that I can operate on you, I get paid the same. And you might even do well. But it's the wrong thing to do. So I refuse to operate on you until you stop smoking. ↗

— Mehmet Oz

#even #get #i #i can #might

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.' ↗

— Mehmet Oz

#actually #ago #better #care #doctor

I get up in the morning and do a seven-minute yoga workout. I know the most likely time I'm going to do something is when I first get up, and I make it short because, like you, I don't really want to do that first thing in the morning. ↗

— Mehmet Oz

#first #first thing #get #going #i

I really think it would be cowardly to pull back and not challenge the status quo, when the status quo may not be the right way for the field to go. ↗

— Mehmet Oz

#challenge #cowardly #field #go #i

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

— Mehmet Oz

#bicycle #bridge #george #george washington #i

If I make your workplace conducive to walking at lunch, or working out at some time during the day, or I get people to use the stairs more by creating incentives to do such, then people will start doing it naturally. ↗

— Mehmet Oz

#creating #day #doing #during #get

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

#care #close #day #develop #die

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

— Mehmet Oz

#enough #families #front #program #together