TV personality/GOP candidate for U.S. Senate Dr. Mehmet Oz appears to be doing the impossible. He’s running a political campaign even worse than the one Caitlyn Jenner ran last year when she barely got 1% of the vote in her bid to unseat California Gov. Gavin Newsom.
Since announcing his candidacy back in November, Oz, who lives in New Jersey but is running for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania, has been making appearances at local diners and farm shows, where he’s been posing for lots of maskless photo opps with likely Republican voters.
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The other day, he posted a video of himself to Twitter checking a man’s blood pressure at the Pennsylvania Farm Show along with the caption, “I’m doing blood pressure checks at the PA Farm Show. It’s important to hear the issues driving up your blood pressure.”
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I’m doing blood pressure checks at the PA Farm Show.
It’s important to hear the issues driving up your blood pressure. pic.twitter.com/bxw0WjtHRG
— Dr. Mehmet Oz (@DrOz) January 9, 2022
It didn’t take long for people to notice that Oz, who is supposed to be a cardiologist, was taking the man’s blood pressure all wrong.
Not only was the cuff upside down, but it was placed over the man’s flannel shirt, the man didn’t have his feet flat on the ground, and neither of them were wearing masks while they chatted throughout the entire reading.
Several doctors and nurses weighed in to correct Oz on his bad technique…
Where to begin with this bad technique?
• Wrong-sized cuff.
• Cuff over clothing.
• Patient talking.
• Feet not flat.
• No mask.
• Cuff is likely upside-down.It’s important to hear the issues causing one to obtain an inaccurate blood pressure reading.
— Tim Broyle, MD (@BroyleTim) January 10, 2022
Well, shitty technique in taking blood pressures certainly doesn’t help mine!
— Daniel “dietary course correction” Summers, MD (@WFKARS) January 10, 2022
Cuff too small, his feet are not flat on floor, his back is not supported and he’s talking. This BP is as accurate as guessing jelly beans in a jar
— Whit NP (@wematt86) January 10, 2022
Besides horrible positioning, the cuff was upside down
This couldn’t have produced even a slightly useable blood pressure reading
Please stop claiming that you know how to practice medicine
— Jordy Cohen, MD, MSCE (@jordy_bc) January 10, 2022
That cuff position was way too low.
And …
Sitting, leaning over with a big thick flannel shirt over top is not the way we take BP’s
Ps … the automatic cuff on someone that heavy ain’t all that accurate either. 😉
But being a cardiologist u know that, right … @DrOz
— 🌸Jacquie_RN 🩺🌸 🇨🇦 (@jacquie_rn) January 10, 2022
The video was posted shortly after Oz and his wife, Lisa, cursed out a reporter without realizing she was still on the phone.
Lisa Oz failed to hang up on reporter Olivia Nuzzi, who was covering Oz’s campaign for New York Magazine, and instead connected the phone to her car speaker, where she and her husband proceeded to call Nuzzi a “liar” and a “f*cking girl reporter”.
I spent the last 3 weeks reporting on Dr. Oz for @NYMag. Things got strange quickly. https://t.co/aa2k8A1raM
— Olivia Nuzzi (@Olivianuzzi) December 28, 2021
A December poll conducted by the Trafalgar Group asked over 1,000 Republicans in Pennsylvania who they’d vote for it they could do so tomorrow. Oz led the field, taking 18.8% of the vote, a full ten points ahead of the next GOP candidate.
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The numbers are a lot less impressive, however, when you factor in that the vast, vast, vast majority of respondents (50.8%) said they hadn’t yet made up their minds, and another 10.8% said they would pick “another candidate” not listed.
Graham Gremore is the Features Editor and a Staff Writer at Queerty. Follow him on Twitter @grahamgremore.
Heywood Jablowme
“Oz, who lives in New Jersey but is running for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania,”
Oh Queerty, go ahead and change it to:
“Oz, who lives in New Jersey but is running ILLEGALLY for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania,”
Jaquelope
How can he even legally be allowed to do that? They have very clear rules about candidacy, but I guess that Representative for Missouri who lives in Tennessee or Kentucky (I forget which) was allowed to do it, so I guess nobody really cares if someone flaunts the Constitution.
Kangol2
Not sure which Missouri rep you’re talking about but so long as you establish a legal “residency” in a state, you can run to represent that state without flouting the US Constitution or most (all?) US state constitutions. You’d think that voters would say no way to someone parachuting in to “represent” them in Congress, but voters have defied good logic and common sense many times in the past!
Brian
It’s so much worse than that. He voted illegally in the 2020 election. He lives in a state that was highly expected to turn “blue” and give all of its electoral votes to Joe Biden. That’s why he decided to vote in Pennsylvania. This is a crime. It’s been proven that he committed a crime. No one in law enforcement cares.
Kangol2
Pure quackery from Mehmet Oz! You’d think if he was going to stage a blood pressure test he’d at least know how to make it LOOK correct! If that’s how he’s treating his patients–poorly and against basic medical science–just imagine the malpractice he’ll have in store for Pennsylvanians and the USA!
Fahd
He’s a joke on so many levels, but if he gets the Republican nomination, it could spell a Democratic victory!
Mack
I don’t know, hell we’ve had idiots voting Trump for President and he won. And something tells me Dr Oz is smarter than Trump-not by much though.
johncp56
so very sad, I use to love to learn minor medical info from his show, but after his FOX spot i,m finished bye bye, best of luck with that DR?
Mr. Stadnick
Dr. OZ practicing medicine is just a photo op!
Jim
Don’t forget Oprah enable this snake oil salesman.
johncp56
I would love to know her feelings, on the FOX spot alone, I will not watch him at all anymore, gone in my heart
RTG
A former TV show host running for elected office…..goodness what could go wrong that that…..
TomG
I expect little from this quack and hopefully the people in Pennsylvania are smart enough NOT to vote for him. (However they did vote for Trump, so their intelligence is questionable).