On a
sunny weekday
afternoon, Mehmet C. Oz, MD, the renowned 49 - year - old heart surgeon (vice-chairman and professor of surgery at Columbia University and director of the Cardiovascular Institute and Complementary Medicine Program at New York — Presbyterian Hospital), co-author of five best - selling
books in the You series, YOU: The Owners Manual, YOU: The Smart Patient, YOU:
On a Diet, You: Staying Young, and You: Being Beautiful — and newly minted host of his own nationally syndicated daytime talk - show, The Dr. Oz Show — drove out to the Carrolls home in Ridgewood, New Jersey, to help the family turn things around.