Thursday, May 8, 2025

Surgeon General Proposed: "L.A. Holistic Doctor and Wellness Influencer"

The Trump administration has proposed a second candidate (replacement candidate) for the post of Surgeon General.   This is Casey Means MD, a Los Angeles-based holistic medicine physician.

See a quite detailed article by Jenny Jarvie at LA Times here.  There are numerous other articles in case that one is firewalled for you; e.g. NPR and The Hill.


Means attended Stanford Medical School and did most of a surgery residency at OHSU before switching to clinical holistic medicine.   

Her book, Good Energy, has 3674 reviews on Amazon and 16,679 ratings on goodreads. Her coauthor and brother Calley Means has an MBA from Harvard.


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The Hill writes, regarding the prior candidate,

President Trump has pulled his nomination of Janette Nesheiwat to be U.S. surgeon general and has instead chosen chronic disease entrepreneur Casey Means, a physician with close ties to the “Make America Healthy Again,” or MAHA, movement, as his new pick to fill the role.

Nesheiwat’s credentials came into question last month when CBS News reported that records showed she had graduated from the American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine, and not the University of Arkansas School of Medicine, as had been said when her nomination was announced.