I'm Grysta Tippett, today, heart and soul, the integrative medicine of Mehmet Oz.

Cardiovascular surgeon Mehmet Oz is a healer, a teacher, and he says an explorer.

In bringing meditation as well as robotics into the operating theater, he and others like

him are changing the face of modern medicine.

When you finally figure out that you've got the best technology available, when you finally

climb the last technology mountain and the patient still doesn't feel well, that's when.

We start looking in areas where we're much less comfortable, like spirituality and alternative

therapies that bridge cultures of healing beyond this country's borders.

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I'm Grysta Tippett. The word healing means to make whole, but historically in a field

like cardiology, Western medicine has taken a divided view of human health. It has stressed

medical treatment of biological ailments. This hour I speak with Mehmet Oz. He is one

of the most respected and dynamic of a generation of doctors on new spiritual, as well as technological

frontiers.

From American public media, this is Speaking of Faith, public radio's conversation about

religion, meaning, ethics and ideas.

Today, a heart and soul, the integrative medicine of Mehmet Oz.

Mehmet Oz is well known these days as a popular television and radio personality. But when

I interviewed him in 2004, he was busy revolutionizing the field of cardiac surgery. As director

of the cardiovascular institute at Columbia University, he has innovated tools and techniques,

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