Mehmet Oz(I)

He's an American citizen since he's born in the US and he earned his Turkish citizenship after completing the mandatory military service which is required for all healthy Turkish men once they are 19 years old. This also means if there was a war before 2001 (before he turned 41), he could have been called for duty.

There's a strange, discordant pathology to the state of being stuck. Nobody who starts smoking plans to be hooked for life. Nobody who's obese secretly wants to stay that way. When a doctor or family member pleads with us to make lifesaving changes, we mean it when we say, 'I know, I know, I should, I will'. What's left unsaid is the killer caveat: 'Just not today'. Over the years, I have had more conversations like this with patients than I can count, so many that the phrase 'I know I should' has become a red flag - a sad predictor that I will probably one day crack open those patients' sternums in the operating room, trying to undo the damage that poor choices and unhealthy lifestyles have done to their hearts.