<p>NEW: Who is Casey Means, whom Trump has nominated to replace Janette Nesheiwat as his US surgeon general pick?</p><p>The MD dropped out of residency, became a functional medicine doctor, and recently penned a poem called “The Devil’s Wellness Plan,” <span class="h-card"><a href="https://newsie.social/@STAT" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>STAT</span></a></span>'s Isa Cueto tells us</p><p><a href="https://www.statnews.com/2025/05/07/trump-picks-casey-means-maha-influencer-for-surgeon-general-post/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.statnews.com/2025/05/07/trump-picks-casey-means-maha-influencer-for-surgeon-general-post/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.statnews.com/2025/05/07/tr</span><span class="invisible">ump-picks-casey-means-maha-influencer-for-surgeon-general-post/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#health</a> <a href="/tags/healthcare/" rel="tag">#healthcare</a> <a href="/tags/publichealth/" rel="tag">#publichealth</a> <a href="/tags/medicine/" rel="tag">#medicine</a> <a href="/tags/healthpolicy/" rel="tag">#healthpolicy</a> <a href="/tags/hhs/" rel="tag">#hhs</a> <a href="/tags/maha/" rel="tag">#maha</a></p>
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<p>"Pres Trump just fired: </p><p>• 90 physicians <br>• 350 nurses <br>• at least 25 nurse practitioners <br>• nearly 20 dentists <br>• 85+ pharmacists <br>• 45 lab techs </p><p>Employed by the Indian Health Svc to provide HC. This is going to have dangerous consequences for our Indigenous brothers & sisters."<br>-Sen Luján</p><p>Snr officials: ~5,200 ppl on probat. employment -recent hires -across agencies incl. <a href="/tags/nih/" rel="tag">#NIH</a> <a href="/tags/cdc/" rel="tag">#CDC</a> will be fired🚨Fri. CDC: ~1,300 WKRs...</p><p><a href="/tags/racism/" rel="tag">#Racism</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/publichealth/" rel="tag">#PublicHealth</a> <a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#USPol</a> <a href="/tags/hhs/" rel="tag">#HHS</a><br> <a href="https://www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/federal-employee-layoffs-at-hhs-cdc-on-first-day-robert-kennedy-health-secretary/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/federal-employee-layoffs-at-hhs-cdc-on-first-day-robert-kennedy-health-secretary/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/fe</span><span class="invisible">deral-employee-layoffs-at-hhs-cdc-on-first-day-robert-kennedy-health-secretary/</span></a></p>
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<p>When a firefighter dies, a small team of federal health workers helps pinpoint what went wrong and identify how to avoid similar accidents in the future.</p><p>Trump laid off nearly all of them.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-cuts-firefighter-deaths?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/trump-cuts-firefighter-deaths?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/tru</span><span class="invisible">mp-cuts-firefighter-deaths?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/fire/" rel="tag">#Fire</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/doge/" rel="tag">#DOGE</a> <a href="/tags/musk/" rel="tag">#Musk</a> <a href="/tags/deaths/" rel="tag">#Deaths</a> <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#Health</a> <a href="/tags/hhs/" rel="tag">#HHS</a></p>