article_snippet.sent: I watched in awe on Thursday as cardiothoracic surgeon and celebrity talk show host celeb doc Mehmet Oz surfed a gargantuan wave of criticism to shore.
article_snippet.sent: I should have expected that celeb doc Mehmet Oz would keep standing in the face of charges from a group of colleagues that celeb doc Mehmet Oz pushed "quack treatments ... for personal financial gain.
article_snippet.sent: And thanks to the ineptitude of celeb doc Mehmet Oz critics
article_snippet.sent: this round, celeb doc Mehmet Oz may have actually boosted celeb doc Mehmet Oz media empire.  
article_snippet.sent: But celeb doc Mehmet Oz's increasingly serving celeb doc Mehmet Oz at a cost to Columbia University and New York Presbyterian Hospital.
article_snippet.sent: If celeb doc Mehmet Oz was ever going to go down, surely celeb doc Mehmet Oz ship would've sunk last summer in the wake of celeb doc Mehmet Oz disastrous testimony before a Senate subcommittee.
article_snippet.sent: doc Mehmet Oz was ostensibly invited to speak as an expert witness about bogus weight loss products, .
article_snippet.sent: But Sen. Claire McCaskill, chairwoman of the Senate's Consumer Protection Panel,  instead made celeb doc Mehmet Oz her chief example of the kind of snake oil salesmen that keep hoodwinking consumers into thinking there's a quick fix for consumers expanding waistlines.
article_snippet.sent: John Oliver subsequently eviscerated celeb doc Mehmet Oz on John Oliver hit HBO show
article_snippet.sent: In a segment that's now garnered over 6 million YouTube views, John Oliver makes quick work of celeb doc Mehmet Oz claims about "magic" green coffee beans, a product that's now earned a $9 million FTC fine for FTC false marketing claims.
article_snippet.sent: Despite John Oliver utter humiliation, celeb doc Mehmet Oz celeb doc Mehmet Oz soldiered on, with celeb doc Mehmet Oz university and hospital continuing to stand by celeb doc Mehmet Oz, and with Harpo Productions and Sony, who co-produce
article_snippet.sent: "The Dr. Oz Show," fully behind celeb doc Mehmet Oz program.
article_snippet.sent: If the U.S. Senate couldn't bring celeb doc Mehmet Oz down, what made this particular collection of 10 doctors think the U.S. Senate could do this particular collection of 10 doctors with the U.S. Senate recent letter to Columbia University, where celeb doc Mehmet Oz holds a tenured professorship and administrative position in the Department of Surgery and performs celeb doc Mehmet Oz duties at Columbia-affiliated New York Presbyterian Hospital?
article_snippet.sent: 10 doctors insisted that Columbia University must disassociate Columbia University from celeb doc Mehmet Oz for celeb doc Mehmet Oz now well-established tendency to promote cure-alls more befitting 1915 than 2015.
article_snippet.sent: And celeb doc Mehmet Oz and celeb
article_snippet.sent: doc Mehmet Oz producers responded with alacrity, slicing and dicing celeb doc Mehmet Oz ill-prepared challengers with an investigative segment that would've made "Dateline" proud.
article_snippet.sent: celeb doc Mehmet Oz and celeb doc Mehmet Oz team score points with me for pointing out the media's own failings in delightedly circulating their recent letter to Columbia University, where Dr. Oz holds a tenured professorship and administrative position in the Department of Surgery and performs his duties at Columbia-affiliated New York Presbyterian Hospital without looking into the backgrounds of anyone involved.
article_snippet.sent: It's a simple matter to question ulterior motives when their recent letter to Columbia University, where Dr. Oz holds a tenured professorship and administrative position in the Department of Surgery and performs his duties at Columbia-affiliated New York Presbyterian Hospital takes pains to highlight celeb doc Mehmet Oz's critical attitude toward GMO foods, not one of celeb doc Mehmet Oz greatest indiscretions by a long shot.
article_snippet.sent: doc Mehmet Oz after all has conducted experiments on celeb doc Mehmet Oz TV audience, apparently in violation of the rules of celeb doc Mehmet Oz own academic medical center.
article_snippet.sent: doc Mehmet Oz has a propensity to spout laughably definitive statements with little to no scientific support, such as celeb doc Mehmet Oz advice that "every kid in America ought to be on Omega-3 fatty acids and Vitamin D from either the sun or a pill" because this regimen will help Omega-3 fatty acids and Vitamin D withstand concussions.
article_snippet.sent: Instead of mounting a defense of the indefensible claims celeb doc Mehmet Oz delivers so easily and often, celeb doc Mehmet Oz routed celeb doc Mehmet Oz critics by quickly pivoting to the undercurrents of Instead of mounting a defense of the indefensible claims he delivers so easily and often letter.
article_snippet.sent: These characters never stood a chance in tipping the scales against celeb doc Mehmet Oz, but These characters got These characters headlines nonetheless.
article_snippet.sent: doc Mehmet Oz was able to transition These characters critique of celeb doc Mehmet Oz apparent disregard for science on celeb doc Mehmet Oz program into an easily vanquished attack on celeb doc Mehmet Oz straightforward stand for consumers' right to accurate product labeling.
article_snippet.sent: This whole affair would've played out quite differently if a slate of credible colleagues based at celeb doc Mehmet Oz own institution were coming out against celeb doc Mehmet Oz.  
article_snippet.sent: So far they've made no demand for celeb doc Mehmet Oz resignation, though some colleagues made some colleagues discomfort public in an op-ed for USAToday last week.
article_snippet.sent: doc Mehmet Oz is well-aware that some colleagues question celeb doc Mehmet Oz, discussing that tension in celeb doc Mehmet Oz Time magazine op-ed.
article_snippet.sent: doc Mehmet Oz says celeb doc Mehmet Oz doesn't expect all physicians to understand celeb doc Mehmet Oz approach to health promotion, where celeb doc Mehmet Oz's willing to entertain just about everything, even seances.
article_snippet.sent: The closed, physician-only social network Sermo issued celeb doc Mehmet Oz numerous questions from The closed, physician-only social network membership, none of which celeb doc Mehmet Oz celeb
article_snippet.sent: doc Mehmet Oz answered.
article_snippet.sent: The closed, physician-only social network are revelatory of physician attitudes toward celeb doc Mehmet Oz nonetheless.
article_snippet.sent: his show doesn't require celeb doc Mehmet Oz stay up late at night prepping for the next day -- celeb doc Mehmet Oz has an office full of production staff behind celeb doc Mehmet Oz.
article_snippet.sent: Let's take it as a given that not every physician across America, or at Columbia, has to agree with what celeb doc Mehmet Oz says on celeb doc Mehmet Oz program.
article_snippet.sent: doc Mehmet Oz have the right to say it?
article_snippet.sent: A real case can be made that celeb doc Mehmet Oz has used celeb doc Mehmet Oz media megaphone to do harm as well as good.
article_snippet.sent: doc Mehmet Oz is now a polarizing figure, and while Columbia University should be lauded for protecting the free speech of Columbia University academic staff, the equation with celeb doc Mehmet Oz is becoming increasingly complex.
article_snippet.sent: doc Mehmet Oz's no longer simply good PR for the University and New York Presbyterian Hospital, which is often featured in celeb doc Mehmet Oz show.
highlights_snippet.sent: Ford Vox: When celeb doc Mehmet Oz slammed by doctors for 'quack' medicine, celeb doc Mehmet Oz hit back, but Ford Vox complaint has some basis .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: doc Mehmet Oz says celeb doc Mehmet Oz scorned by some in medical community, at Senate hearing; comics joke about celeb doc Mehmet Oz.
highlights_snippet.sent: doc Mehmet Oz serves celeb doc Mehmet Oz at cost to celeb doc Mehmet Oz hospital .