Trump’s Surgeon General Pick to Parry Concerns She’s Unqualified

Casey Means, President Donald Trump’s pick for US Surgeon General, aims to quell concerns over her perceived lack of medical experience during a Congressional hearing on her nomination later this week.

Means will tell the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committee that she’s treated thousands of patients in clinics and operating rooms, run her own medical practice and co-founded a venture-backed health technology company called Levels Health Inc., according to written testimony seen by Bloomberg.

“My professional history has prepared me to be an innovative, unifying, and practical leader focused on reversing chronic disease,” she plans ...