Donald Trump has recently made a range of appointments in the health sector of the US. They will strongly influence conventional and so-called alternative medicine (SCAM) in the US as well as worldwide. It therefore seems worth to look at the backgrounds and qualifications of these men and women and critically evaluate their fit for leadership roles in healthcare. In part 1 of this series, we looked at Robert F.Kennedy Jr. and David Weldon. Now I will focus on Trumps nominations for Surgeon General
Janette Nesheiwat – Surgeon General
We featured Janette once before. She trained as a family and emergency medicine physician, became the medical director at CityMD and also a Fox News contributor. She has no significant public health leadership experience. As the Surgeon General, she would require shaping national health policy and communicating science to the public, areas where she has no training or experience. She also lacks expertise in public health and epidemiology. Her Fox News role and online vitamin sales raise doubts about her prioritization of evidence-based public health over media-driven health promotion. The Surgeon General is the nation’s leading spokesperson on public health, overseeing the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and issuing science-based health advisories. Nesheiwat would be a disaster for such a position.
Nesheiwat’s nomination was eventually withdrawn by Trump. This suggests internal concerns about her fitness for the job.
Casey Means – Surgeon General
RFK Jr wrote on X: “The Surgeon General is a symbol of moral authority who stands against the financial and institutional gravities that tend to corporatize medicine. Casey Means was born to hold this job. She will provide our country with ethical guidance, wisdom, and gold-standard medical advice.” Yet her suitability for Surgeon General is a contentious issue.
Means holds a 2014 MD from Stanford University and a bachelor’s degree in human biology. She is an advocate for addressing chronic diseases through nutrition, exercise, and lifestyle changes. Her book “Good Energy”, co-authored with her brother Calley, argues that metabolic dysfunction is a root cause of most chronic illnesses. As a “wellness influencer”, Means has demonstrated an ability to communicate health concepts to a broad audience.
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“…her appointment should not be confirmed by the Senate.” But it will be. RFKJr made it, and there is no one less qualified than he is. Name an R who is willing to rock the MAGA boat. USA has literally entered a dark age of public health.
Doc, the vaccine era is over. It’s crested and will not be coming back. Sorry ’bout that.
I’m a political person, an analyst in the field. Covid over-reach has deeply scarred the body public. There is no state power that would dare impose sanctions for any putative whatever. The resistance would be bitter and organized. To make such impositions on a fractious public with Russia, China, Trump, BRICS and the SCO looming. Not politically conceivable notwithstanding the institutional powers opposed.
I observe the many attempts to ‘gin up’ some infectious, whatever. Where I live, the local authorities are going on about measels. This is Mennonite coutnry. Nobody can dig their heels in harder than them. They are not constitutionaly adverse to the idea of innoculation. What they do not trust is the integrity of the vaccine product. That it is what it is represented to be. That it’s ingredients are known and not adulterated. so this business is up againt this rock. And my folks are Scotch Irish and feel the same.
You up there in the clouds, I still work the streets and take the pulses.
So, regular folks very well have observed that vaccines actually do nothing useful at all in real life. They also have been infected with reports that vaccines have caused harm. And then, there’s nothing like the feeling that the vaccine contains really bad stuff.
Bring this altogether and the lot festers, ferments and then solidifies. This generation is anchored in sour skepticism. They will not be fooled again. In my business, an appreciation of this situation is much valued.
Who can address this loss of credibility? So, the Kennedy crowd. They will move to regulate the vaccine industry aka choke it to death. Because there can be no fresh demand. No one is buying. See where these tectonic forces are going?
Of course, someone like yourself, having credentials could step forward, gathering like minded colleagues and say, challengingly, where proper reforms are put in place, public confidence may be restored.
Politically, that your and yours are not of the other’s crowd. That’s the point. And your asset. It’s exactly why an initiative has power. You enbody a well of prestige and capability that should be offered in service. It is a requirement of seniority to step forward in good faith. They will likely piss you off but you are a veteran. It is an act of duty.
Better to be on the inside of the tent pissing out. Otherwise, the building juggernaught will fence you out.
I look forward to your contributions
You are not so old as to be ossified. Go boldly and put your shoulder to the wheel. Others will join you,
“So, regular folks very well have observed that vaccines actually do nothing useful at all in real life.”
They have not “observed” they have been lied to and gas lighted by charlatans and cranks. They are not skeptics, skepticism is a rational process, they along with those who have been lying to them, and those abetting the liars like you are simply ignorant and delusional.
“So, regular folks very well have observed that vaccines actually do nothing useful at all in real life.”
Well, the fact they they could observe anything means they survived the pandemic!
QED!!!
But you have no clue about science, medicine, vaccines or immunity, as you so ably demonstrate with your comment. A kindly word of advice: “If you have no idea, just shut up!”