While Casey Means awaits the start of a Senate confirmation process to take the role of U.S. surgeon general, there is widespread debate about her nomination.
Means, a functional medicine physician who does not have an active medical license, was announced as President Donald Trump’s nominee for surgeon general on May 7.
If confirmed by the Senate, Means will have one of the nation’s most visible public health roles. She is aligned with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement.
Generally considered America’s doctor, the surgeon general manages 6,000 Commissioned Corps of the U.S. Public Health Service members, but the Corps’ members are mostly managed through the agencies where they are posted….