Well being and Human Providers Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a Thursday interview stated President Trump’s new nominee for surgeon normal turned away from fashionable drugs as a result of “she was not curing patients.”

Surgeon Basic nominee Casey Means, an ally of Kennedy’s “Make America Healthy Again” motion, has come below scrutiny as she by no means completed her residency and doesn’t at present have an energetic medical license.

Kennedy defended Means through the interview Thursday on Fox Information’s “Special Report.”

“She walked away from traditional medicine because she was not curing patients,” Kennedy stated.

“She couldn’t get anybody within her profession to look at the nutrition contributions to illness, and she said, ‘If we’re really gonna heal people, if we’re healers, we can’t just be making our life about billing new procedures,” he advised host Brett Baier.

Kennedy defended Trump’s decide for the function after pulling the nomination of Janette Nesheiwat, a doctor and former Fox Information contributor.

“We actually have to figure out new approaches to medicine, and that’s the kind of leadership that she’s gonna bring to our country,” he stated.

His former working mate Nicole Shanahan and others have criticized Means’ nomination. 

“Yes, it’s very strange. Doesn’t make any sense,” Shanahan wrote on X, responding to a put up that expressed concern that Casey Means, a graduate of Stanford Medical College, has “just about no clinical experience.”

“I was promised that if I supported RFK Jr. in his Senate confirmation that neither of these siblings would be working under HHS or in an appointment (and that people much more qualified would be),” Shanahan stated. “I don’t know if RFK very clearly lied to me, or what is going on.”