Trump's New Pick for Surgeon General Dropped Out of Medical Residency and Has an Inactive Medical License

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: MEDIAite

May 7th, 2025, 9:48 pm


Like many of President Donald Trump’s nominees, his new pick for Surgeon General has not followed the typical career path for that position. Dr. Casey Means, a 37-year-old wellness influencer, is drawing criticism over her support for controversial alternative medicine therapies and lack of qualifications.

Trump’s original choice for Surgeon General, former Fox News contributor Janette Nesheiwat, lost favor after she was attacked in a series of social media posts by far-right activist Laura Loomer, a controversial MAGA figure who has managed to stay in the president’s orbit. The White House withdrew Nesheiwat’s nomination and Trump announced in a social media post he was putting up Means’ name next.

Means did earn an MD from Stanford University, but soon diverged from the traditional career path for doctors. After graduation, she was accepted into a residency for head and neck surgery but dropped out before completion. In contrast, Nesheiwat completed a residency program at the University of Arkansas, is board-certified in family medicine, and was a director of an urgent care provider in New York City.

Normally, residency placements are highly competitive and resident doctors do not withdraw without a plan to pursue a residency in a different specialty. Not completing a residency would mean that a doctor would not be eligible for board certification or be able to be hired for certain positions that entail practicing medicine without the supervision of attending physicians.

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[Irish_Dem]

1. Sounds like a perfect choice to kill more Americans.

[DENVERPOPS]

15. As with all his appointees

I am sure he ran her by Putin and let him determine who would be the worst to accelerate the demise of the USA

[Irish_Dem]

16. Exactly. Do you think they get a stipend for each American death they cause?

Yes the death of Americans has Putin's fingerprints all over it.
I too think Putin has helped select the goon squad ruining our courtly and killing us.

All those deaths, and Putin didn't have to fire a shot.

[DENVERPOPS]

17. My good friend,

from Russia has been a Citizen here for 15-20 years......He still talks to his friends and family back in Russia. I asked him what they are saying about the U.S. and its people. He said that they are ALL in hysterics about how easily Putin literally PLAYED Trump and the Republican Politicians and Voters, into destroying the U.S., and that he has done it so easily without starting a war with the U.S. or firing a single rocket or missle.....

[Irish_Dem]

19. Same thing I have been saying for years now.

And I don't even know any Russians.

Seems more than obvious.

Putin has been at war with the US for a long time now.
And enlisted the GOP to help him with the war.
An American political party sold out their country.

[DENVERPOPS]

21. LOL

being as un-educated as they all are, they probably didn't take any history courses..... particularly FRENCH History, or even know what the word guillotine means...........

Hang in there I_D..........stay safe and warm

[Irish_Dem]

22. I keep hoping the French will loan us their guillotines.

But I am losing faith in the American people.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. And Senate Republicans will rubber stamp

this nomination.

[DENVERPOPS]

18. Even more disturbing

is seeing the number of Dems voting for some of them............WTF ????????????????

[C_U_L8R]

3. It seems Trump's qualification is for the unqualified.

Chaos through incompetence is how they hope to profit.

[DENVERPOPS]

20. They all will do anything

along with all Republican Politicians and those in the Trump CABAL, to try an guarantee them a spot in the top 1%........

None of them, along with the Justices, are smart enough to have been watching what he does with followers once they outgrow their usefulness.........He is already throwing all his Trumphumping voters under the bus......having outgrown their usefulness.....

[mdbl]

4. His picks go from dumb to dumber

and the idiocracy side to the Senate all bob their heads in agreement with him.

[Paladin]

5. trump is handing the next presidential election to Democrats.

His daily outrages and fuckups are absolute gifts to us---if we're smart enough and aggressive enough to take advantage of them.

[wishstar]

6. MD's decline or drop out of residency to pursue more lucrative opportunities

This seems to be the case with Casey Means. I know someone who was accepted to a prestigious residency program but instead opted to become a high paid consultant and then branch into medical startup investment venture capitalism and became a multi-millionaire by age 32 rather than toiling away at very low salary for years to become a practicing doctor.

[Martin68]

7. So what else is new? Par for the course. Those with qualifications need not apply.

[Hotler]

8. The only requirement for a cabinet position is searing hate for the left. nt

[Botany]

9. She is a whack job. Despite her degree from Sanford.

I just heard this am that she is into “mitochondrial uncoupling.”

[womanofthehills]

10. MAHA moms on Twitter are very unhappy with this pick

She wasn’t Kennedy’s pick and they feel someone other than Kennedy/Trump is doing the picking.

No one ever heard of her a yr ago & suddenly she is on all the top podcasts promoting her book.

[IronLionZion]

11. More meritocracy of highly qualified super geniuses

[Beacool]

12. Only the best people for Donnie.

If it weren't so tragic for the country, it would be funny.

Sigh....

[Montauk6]

13. Which reminds me...

Didn't he give a position to Dr. Oz?

[twodogsbarking]

14. She looks interesting.

https://www.thehorrordome.com/ru/products/voodoo-witch-doctor-hd-studios-pro-halloween-mask

[Canada Kid]

23. Inept asshole just like her appointee!

Sounds like an unlicensed bus driver asked to go fly an F-35! But if you can appoint an RFK Jr., who thinks it's funny to dump a bear carcass in a public park, then I guess we are in good hands! Or is that paws??