Trump nominated Casey Means, a holistic medicine doctor and wellness influencer, to be surgeon general, even though she does not have an active medical license.
Without that license, Means wouldn’t be able to get a job as a doctor at a local hospital.
Trump said he chose Means solely on the recommendation of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and added that he did not know her.
Asked by a reporter Thursday why he picked a nominee for surgeon general who never finished her residency and is not a practicing physician, Trump said: “Because Bobby thought she was fantastic. She’s a brilliant woman who went through Stanford. … I don’t know her.”
The Los Angeles Times
Means graduated from Stanford Medical School but dropped out of a physician residency to be a head and neck surgeon at Oregon Health & Science University, having completed nearly 4½ years of the five-year program.
The 37-year old Means suggested in a recent book that people should consider using unproven psychedelic drugs as therapy.
Means describes herself on LinkedIn as a “former surgeon turned metabolic health evangelist”.
