Trump's Former Surgeon General Rips the President's Current Nominee: 'The Nation's Doctor' Wouldn't Be a Doctor
Source: MEDIAite
Mar 29th, 2026, 1:00 pm
Donald Trump’s surgeon general during his first term, Dr. Jerome Adams, is speaking out against the president’s pick to be the nation’s top doctor during his second term.
Trump nominated Casey Means, a Stanford-educated physician and former ear, nose, and throat surgeon who left conventional medicine and let her license to practice lapse in favor of becoming a wellness influencer. Means’s approach to “functional medicine” is favored by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his Make America Healthy Again movement.
That fact does not sit well with Adams, who told The Washington Post Sunday, “The role of surgeon general has centuries of precedent and requirements, and she doesn’t meet them,” noting that if Means is confirmed, she would not be appointed as a physician, but under the category of “health-service worker.”. “The irony would be the nation’s doctor wouldn’t even be in the corps as a doctor,” Adams said.
Means was put forth by Trump in May 2025, but her nomination remains on hold in the Senate, where both Republicans and Democrats question her stance on vaccines and disdain for the traditional medical establishment.
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