Dr. Oz has opened up about assisting a medical incident onboard a flight.
Yesterday (14 June), the TV personality and medical professional - real name Mehmet Cengiz Öz - was onboard a JetBlue flight from New York to Cabo San Lucas in Mexico when a fellow passenger experienced a 'health scare'.
Dr. Oz - who you may recognise from daytime talk program The Dr. Oz Show - was flying off-duty on the way to a wedding when the incident occurred.
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About an hour into the flight, a man reportedly went in and out of consciousness.
Flight attendants subsequently alerted the rest of the plane, asking if anyone onboard was a medical professional or had any medical experience and could assist, and who should step in to save the day but the famous TV doctor himself?
Dr. Oz has since opened up about the incident.
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In a video shared with TMZ, Dr. Oz can be seen in the aisle of an aircraft, bending over to take a look at another passenger using a torchlight with flight attendants standing close by.
Another clip shows him leaning over and seemingly chatting with the man.
He told the outlet: "[A] middle-aged healthy man lost consciousness and we did usual triage with physical exam and vital signs."
Dr. Oz explains the patient was given oxygen - which he notes is 'the best drug we ever use' - alongside orange juice - which helps boost low blood sugar, which can cause sudden loss of consciousness (fainting).
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He resolved: "[The passnger] recovered and needs to have a detailed evaluation with his local physician."
It's not the first time the doctor has stepped in while traveling to give medical assistance.
Another time, Dr. Oz was at Newark airport in New Jersey with his wife and one of his daughters when a 61-year-old man 'collapsed' and 'fell on his face'.
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"There was no pulse," he told TMZ. "And so the first thing you do is give the patient a pulse by doing CPR so getting on top of his chest, compressing as hard as I could."
Dr. Oz explained you 'don't worry about broken ribs' because 'there's much worse than a broken rib or your life'.
He explained the police helped him perform CPR and thankfully the airport had a defibrillator too.
"It shocked him at the highest power possible and it worked. As soon as he got his heart rate back he immediately began to pink up and by the time that I put him on the stretcher to take him to the ambulance he knew he was at Newark airport. He didn't remember any of what had happened but he was starting to come to."
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Well, not all heroes wear capes.
UNILAD has contacted JetBlue for comment.
Poppy Bilderbeck