PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — “The Dr. Oz Show” has been running for 13 seasons and counting, but the show’s website, DoctorOz.com, seems to have been scrubbed in favor of Dr. Mehmet Oz’s long-rumored campaign run.
On his new site, Oz, who is running for the 2022 U.S. Senate seat in Pennsylvania as a Republican, takes his medical motif into the political arena:
“America’s heartbeat is in a code red in need of a defibrillator to shock it back to life. Many of us feel like we’re in the adjacent operating room, armed with insights and already scrubbed up but reluctant to leave our quiet, serene setting for the chaos next door. But for me, stepping into the political arena is the right thing to do.”
He released a campaign video, too, adding, “COVID has shown us our system is broken. We lost too many lives, too many jobs and too many opportunities because Washington got it wrong.”
Oz, a longtime New Jersey resident who attended high school in Delaware, claims on his website that he lives in Bryn Athyn, Montgomery County, with his family. His campaign lists its headquarters as Huntingdon Valley.
He has previously said that he has lived and voted in Pennsylvania since last year. According to the Associated Press, he voted by absentee ballot, registered to his in-laws’ home in the greater Philadelphia area.
In a statement, Montgomery County Commissioner Dr. Val Arkoosh — who is also running for U.S. Senate — said Oz is “the last thing we need when our Commonwealth faces real challenges.”
“I’m the doctor in this race with a proven track record, from fighting for my patients in the operating room to fighting to lead our Commonwealth’s third-largest county through COVID-19. That’s the kind of leadership needed now more than ever, not a TV personality who has peddled fake diet pills for-profit and pushed unproven COVID-19 treatments,” Arkoosh said.
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Last September, “The Dr. Oz Show” announced it had been renewed for seasons 13 and 14, airing through the 2022-23 season, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Oz, who was born in Ohio, graduated from Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, with a joint MD and MBA from the medical and business schools.
