Dr. Oz in Portland Monday
America's favorite TV doctor is in Portland today, courtesy of KATU and OHSU. Dr. Oz is providing hundreds of our viewers free health screenings to help uncover problems that often go overlooked.
Dr. Oz and a team of health care providers will be at OHSU's Center for Health and Healing from 8am to 4pm. More than 500 viewers who registered for the event will get the chance to learn about common ailments that could be making them sick. Each will all get a free, 15-minute physical and walk away with a better knowledge of how they can improve their health. Five lucky viewers also won a one-on-one consultation with Dr. Oz himself.
The health screenings will test for everything from blood pressure and cholesterol, to glucose levels, waist circumference and body mass index. Those tests can confirm more obvious health problems like obesity, but they can also uncover other issues like diabetes and heart disease.
KATU spoke with Dr. Oz last week ahead of today’s big event.
"I love doing free screenings because not only do we get to help a few hundred people, but they get report cards from their information that we get to share with all the leaders of the community," Dr. Oz said. He also noted the screenings are a health education opportunity not just for the people getting them, but for the community as a whole.
At the end of the day, Dr. Oz and his team will compile the information collected during the screenings and give Portland an overall health grade.
"There's so many great things about health in Portland. Clean water, clean weather. But on the other hand, we're not all doing the right things in terms of physical activity and our diet. So we'll learn a lot about the health of the city," he said.
Dr. Oz will tell us how our health in Portland compares with other cities across the country, and ways we can improve it.
Don’t miss our live coverage of Dr. Oz’s Portland 15-Minute Physicals starting on KATU News First at Four.
Also check out these health reports from KATU anchor Brian Wood:
Well...I didn't need Dr. Oz to tell me that Oregonians need assistance. I'm one of those. So far, I've lost 63 lbs but it's taken a year to do it. I have much more to go...trust me :( And just like the lady who shed 100 lbs so far...I also eat several small "snacks" (something about every two hours) during the day. While I try to maintain a protein snack, I just go for those things that are low in sale/sugar and less than 100 cals. It works. I guess I'm a grazer. It's been easy! Had to relearn to eat breakfast...had to relearn that snacks are ok if you make the right choises...had to force myself not to eat beyond 5:00 (working, that's a really hard one to do)...and...try to exercise. That one is really the hard one. I try very hard to do that...I'm older, can't ride a bike (bad knees and legs)...live in an apartment so I could walk around the parking lot ::groan::...can't afford a treadmill....but I'll figure something out. I often observe the people around me, and in recent years, the girth has expanded to really large sizes. I'm talking sometimes 300lbs +...and that's really unmanageable. I was close to that (or so I saw myself)...and I just can't do that anymore. So what is it??? Our weather? Our economy? I know I can't afford the healthy things I would like to have. So...I'll keep plugging away. Maybe by the time I'm 65, I'll be perfect for me :) Bad heart valve, BP under control now...and no Diabetes...so maybe I began at a good time for me. Good luck everyone!! :)
Oh hell, Sammy the Sodomite just made a statment.   No Bama poster child.
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I didn't vote for Sam and Vera. He was her cheif of staff.
"America's favorite TV doctor is in Portland today..."Â And it isn't "Quincy: Cartoon Coroner?"
I did this event. Some numbers I knew, others I didn't. It was worth an hour on site, heaven with the idiotic goggle directions.
Saturday I did the Dick's prostate exam.  No digital issues...
Free is a very good price.
Pin pricks on the my finger, took ~5 blood lettings. No big deal. The woman who was taking my blood had a hard time getting a sample without an air bubble.  The Red Cross has taken a pint of my A+ when I give it.
Will Dr Oz's Overall healthy grade for the community include the applicants who were weeded out because they do exercise and do eat the recommended foods?Â
Will he be pushing vaccines, but yet refusing to let his own kids take them? What a chump. This guy is completely irrelevant.
Gee, this entertainment puff piece  is at the top of the homepage, yet actual business and economic news at the bottom of the page.......... and this is supposed to be a news website.......... hardly
@kramr ......we've become the United States of entertainment.
@kramr ......absolutely right kramr