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Trump’s Pick for Surgeon General Is a Wellness Entrepreneur
For Casey Means, American medicine wasn’t a career—it was a problem to solve. The Senate isn’t so sure she’s the solution.
BY MELISSA ANGELL, SENIOR STAFF WRITER @MELISSKAWRITES
Casey Means. Illustration: Inc; Photo: Getty Images
Before Casey Means was Trump’s contentious pick for surgeon general, she received her medical degree from Stanford University, then quit her surgical residency, co-founded a wellness startup, and built a following around the idea that American medicine was making people sick.
If Means does overcome current Senate skepticism, she would be the first surgeon general to take the role without ever having held a medical license. She would also be the first........