Oct. 30 (UPI) -- The Senate confirmation hearing for President Donald Trump's nominee for surgeon general was delayed Thursday because the candidate went into labor.
Dr. Casey Means, a friend of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., wellness influencer and Make America Healthy Again advocate, was scheduled to appear Thursday morning before the Senate Health, Education Labor and Pension Committee virtually because of her pregnancy. But she went into labor with her first child.
If chosen, she would be the country's top doctor and leading public health spokesperson. Means, 38, was a campaign advisor to Kennedy during his bid for the presidency. She attended Stanford University for undergrad and medical school. She published a 2024 book, Good Energy, in which she described quitting her residency at Oregon Health and Science University after she became disillusioned with modern medicine's focus on managing disease instead of curing it. She had completed almost all of the five-year residency.
"I walked out of the hospital and embarked on a journey to understand the real reasons why people get sick," NBC News reported she wrote in her book. Her medical license lapsed in January 2024.
