A cardiothoracic surgeon who helped propel Dr Mehmet Oz, who is currently running for Pennsylvania’s open Senate seat, to stardom said he refused to say publicly that his former colleague had no hand in experiments that allegedly killed more than 300 dogs, claiming he viewed it as the candidate asking for a political favour.
Dr Eric Rose was the chief of cardiac surgery at Columbia University’s medical program and was Dr Oz’s superior during the research he conducted in 2003 that led to the USDA finding the university in violation of the Animal Welfare Act.
