Radon is a gas that you cannot smell, taste or see. Radon forms naturally when uranium, thorium, or radium, (radioactive metals) breaks down in rocks, soil and groundwater. People can be exposed to radon primarily from breathing radon in air that comes through cracks and gaps in buildings and homes.
Rating Newest Oldest. Best Answer: Yes his name is Oz. Yes he is a doctor. No he is not an info-mercial salesman. Dr. Mehmet Oz Dr. Oz is vice-chair and professor of surgery at Columbia University. He directs the Cardiovascular Institute and Complementary Medicine Program at NewYorkâPresbyterian Hospital.
Oz was born in 1960 in Cleveland, Ohio, to Turkish parents who were both physicians. His father, Mustafa, rose to become chief of cardiothoracic surgery at Wilmington Medical Center in Delaware, where Oz grew up; his mother, Suna, would later head a family owned pharmaceutical company back in Istanbul, Turkey's capital.