![]() These are issues we are all wrestling with and I will continue looking for solutions to beat this virus.” ![]() We know for many kids, school is a place of security, nutrition, and learning that is missing right now. ![]() At the same time, I’m being asked constantly – how will we be able to get people back to their normal lives? To do that… one of the important steps will be figuring out how do we get our children safely back to school. Oz, through a representative, released a statement to NBC News Friday: “As a heart surgeon, I’ve spent my career fighting to save lives in the operating room by minimizing risks. I’ve realized my comments on risks around opening schools have confused and upset people, which was never my intention. “The most important skills these guys were chosen for were not their medical abilities (of which they had some), but their bedside manner.” ![]() “They were discovered, groomed, and chosen by the standards of show business, not the standards of the American Medical Association,” he said. McGraw and Oz were discovered by Oprah Winfrey, added Thompson. “Part of that may have to do with the fact that they were pandering (in true show business style) to their audience.” “What's remarkable in this case is that all three of these folks have gotten into trouble speaking, sometimes in aggressively offensive ways, against the consensus of medical intelligence,” Bob Thompson, a Syracuse University professor and expert on pop culture, said in an email to NBC News. ![]() And Oz was a recent guest on NBC’s "Today" show, talking about the coronavirus. Yet all three weighed in on a pandemic that has paralyzed the country. None are experts on pandemics and McGraw isn’t even a medical doctor (he has a doctorate in psychology but is currently not a licensed psychologist). ![]()
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