‘The YOU Docs’ to Join Telegraph Herald Lineup
By Brian Cooper
The Telegraph Herald recently received results of a readership survey we commissioned. There was lots of valuable information in there – including indicators that folks in the tri-state area would like more health information in their newspaper.Thus, starting Sunday, we will publish “The YOU Docs,” a medical column by Michael Roizen and Mehmet Oz.If their names sound familiar, you might be a daytime TV viewer. Roizen and Oz are diet-health physicians who have received airtime on Oprah Winfrey’s show. Plus, if you read books, you might have seen their “YOU” books atop best-seller lists.Their books include “YOU: The Owner’s Manual,”"YOU: On a Diet,” and, most recently, “YOU: Staying Young.”Dr. Roizen is chief wellness officer and chair of the Wellness Institute of the Cleveland Clinic. The creator of the RealAge Test, he is a graduate of Williams College and the University of California-San Francisco School of Medicine. His resume indicates that he has personally delivered medical care to eight Nobel Prize winners. (I assume that, due to privacy regulations, he can’t reveal who they are.)Dr. Oz is professor and vice chairman of surgery at Columbia University, New York, and medical director of the Integrated Medicine Center of the Heart Institute at New York Presbyterian/Columbia Medical Center. Oz received his undergraduate degree from Harvard, his M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from Penn’s Wharton School of Business.How these guys find the time to write these books and columns, I’m not sure. They say they collaborate via telephone about eight hours a week. They did not say when (or whether) they sleep!In the TH, “The YOU Docs” will be a quick-read “daily tips” column each weekday. On Sundays, the feature will be a longer question-and- answer column.We hope “The YOU Docs” helps fill the prescription for more health information, to complement the articles and information we already publish.Support ‘ReadCycling’The TH’s annual Newspaper in Education Book Fair, a huge used-book sale, is this weekend.Co- sponsored by Dupaco Community Credit Union, the fair promotes “ReadCycling” and raises money to provide more tri-state classroom copies of the TH.The fair has a new location: 1044 Iowa St., better known as the site of the winter farmers market. Hours are 7 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, May 17, and 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Sunday, May 18.Cooper’s e- mail address is bcooper@wcinet.com.
Originally published by Brian Cooper TH executive editor.
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