"Means is a Stanford Medicine graduate who dropped out of her surgical residency and has since made a career infusing spiritual beliefs into her wellness company, social-media accounts, and best-selling book. The exact nature of her spirituality is hard to parse: Means adopts an anti-institutionalist, salad-bar approach. She might share Kabbalah or Buddhist teachings, or quote Rumi or the movie Moana. She has written about speaking to trees and participating in full-moon ceremonies."
"Her belief in "the divine feminine" (which she doesn't quite explain) seems to have led her to renounce hormonal birth-control pills for halting the "cyclical life-giving nature of women." Although months have passed since her nomination, Means has still not appeared before Congress-in part because she went into labor with her first child hours before her confirmation hearing was scheduled to begin."
Vivek Murthy resigned as surgeon general in January, leaving the post vacant for a year. President Trump nominated Janette Nesheiwat but withdrew her nomination after reports that her M.D. was from St. Maarten rather than Arkansas. Trump then nominated Casey Means, a Stanford Medicine graduate who left surgical residency and built a wellness career blending spiritual beliefs into a company, social media, and a best-selling book. Means has written about speaking to trees and participating in full-moon ceremonies and rejected hormonal birth-control because of a belief in a "divine feminine." She missed her confirmation hearing due to labor; the hearing will be rescheduled without a firm timeline. The vacancy underscores the surgeon general's public-health role.
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