1. Dr. Oz
Mehmet Cengiz Öz is a Turkish-American heart surgeon, who studied at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. In 2003, Dr. Oz was a regular guest on The Oprah Winfrey Show, with over 60 appearances. Besides his appearances on Oprah’s show, he also had his own TV show on Discovery Channel, called Second Opinion with Dr. Oz. It seems that he and Winfrey are actually friends in real life because she was the first guest on Oz’s show.
In 2009, a new show staring the doctor appeared on television. The Dr. Oz Show was launched by Winfrey’s Harpo Productions and Sony Pictures Television, and its main topics are health, wellness, and other medical matters.
Besides his career as a TV host, Dr. Oz is the vice-chairman of the Department of Surgery at Columbia University. It looks like not everyone is happy with his important position. Several surgeons at Columbia have requested Dr. Oz’s dismissal because of his “disdain for science and evidence-based medicine”.
Long story short, these surgeons are not happy that their colleague is promoting natural medicine, such as green coffee beans and African mango seeds, as possible remedies for diseases like obesity or Alzheimer’s.
2. Doc Marten
Dr. Martens, also known as Doc Martens, the favorite footwear of many punks and rockers, was created by a real doctor, named Klaus Märtens. This man was a doctor in the German army, during World War II.
In 1945, he injured his ankle and couldn’t wear standard army boots anymore, due to the pain he was suffering. While he was recuperating, he came up with the idea to design his own boots, with soft leather and air-padded soles that were made out of tires.
When this terrible war ended, some of the Germans managed to recover a few valuable things from their own cities. Märtens was in the same group with the men and took some leather from a cobbler’s shop. With this fabric, he created a pair of boots that had air-cushioned soles.
He wore the pair of boots that he made, and even tried to sell them, but didn’t succeed. That changed in 1947 when he met with one of his friends from the university, Herbert Funck. He liked the new design that the shoes brought and went into business in Seeshaupt and Germany the same year.
Many housewives liked this new invention, especially due to their comfortable soles. In the first decade, 80% of the sales were made by women who were over the age of 40.
What can we say now? This brand is a to-go for many people, regardless of age, gender, or occupation!
3. Dr. Laura
Laura Catherine Schlessinger, known as Dr. Laura, is an American author and radio host. She has her own radio program, called “The Dr. Laura Program”, which can be heard from Monday to Friday for three hours on Sirius XM Radio.
The show consists mostly of her feedbacks to callers’ requests for personal advice and even features her thoughts on social and political topics.
According to her website, her radio show “preaches, teaches, and nags about morals, values, and ethics”. It is believed that over seven million people listen to Dr. Laura’s program daily.
Even though she often refers to herself as being a “shrink”, she doesn’t have a medical or psychology degree. Dr. Laura has a Ph.D. in physiology from Columbia University. This degree doesn’t have anything to do with interpersonal relationships, but it gives her the possibility to teach physical education to college students.
4. Dr. Seuss
Theodor Seuss Geisel, known as Dr. Seuss, was an American author for children’s books, an illustrator, political cartoonist, poet, filmmaker, and animator. He is best known for writing and illustrating over 60 books under the pen name Dr. Seuss.
He was a very appreciated writer, selling more than 600 million copies of his books. In addition to that, his work was translated into more than 20 languages by the time of his death.
He got an undergrad degree at Dartmouth College (in spite of being under probation for a period of time, due to the fact that he was caught drinking gin with some friends in his room). He attended Lincoln College at Oxford University, hoping to receive a Ph.D. in English.
After a while, he discovered that he enjoyed drawing cartoons more than studying Shakespeare’s opera. In 1927, he left Oxford University to enter the world of illustrators. He worked as a cartoonist and illustrator for many publications, such as Life and Vanity Fair.
The reason he added the word “Dr.” to his pen name was to please his father. He always wished for his son to become a doctor. Even though Theodor Seuss Geisel wasn’t part of the medical staff, he received an honorary doctorate from Dartmouth College in 1955, and everyone knew him as Dr. Seuss.
