All charges against Dharmesh Patel, a radiologist accused of trying to kill his family in 2023 by driving his car off a cliff along the Northern California coast, have been dismissed following his completion of a mental health program.
Nicole Saphier, a breast cancer radiologist, is the president's third nominee for surgeon general. Will she get confirmed?
President Trump on Thursday pulled the controversial nomination of Casey Means for surgeon general, announcing on Truth Social that her replacement would be Fox News contributor and radiologist Dr. Nicole Saphier, marking his third nominee for the post. #Surgeongeneral #Trump #Nicolesaphier
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President Donald Trump on Thursday withdrew Casey Means’s nomination for surgeon general. The announcement came after nearly 11 months of Senate inaction on the nomination, as Senate health committee members Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) and Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AL) would not say whether they would vote for her. On Truth Social, Trump blamed Cassidy for having “stood in the way,” of Means’s nomination, calling him a “very disloyal person.” In a separate post on Truth Social, Trump said that he would nominate Nicole Saphier, a radiologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and longtime Fox News medical contributor, to serve as the nation’s chief doctor. Secretary of Health and Human…Open
President Donald Trump said on Thursday that he is nominating Dr. Nicole Saphier to be the next surgeon general.
Dr. Nicole Saphier, a renowned radiologist and Fox News contributor, has been nominated by President Trump to replace Casey Means as the U.S. surgeon general after Senate delays stalled the prior nomination.
PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: President Trump announced the nomination of Dr. Nicole Saphier as U.S. surgeon general, replacing Casey Means, whose nomination has been stalled in the Senate. The president made the announcement on Truth Social, citing delays caused by Senator Bill Cassidy. Cassidy has received hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from Big Pharma firms and executives in recent years. DETAIL: Dr. Saphier, the replacement pick, is a radiologist and director of breast imaging at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Monmouth, as well as a Fox News contributor and podcast host. President Trump praised her for her expertise in cancer detection and treatment, as well as her ability to communicate complex…Open
Dr. Means’s nomination had stalled in part over her views on vaccines. The president said he was instead nominating Dr. Nicole B. Saphier, a radiologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
Means’s nomination stalled as some Republicans questioned her credentials. The new nominee, Trump’s third pick for the role, is Nicole Saphier a radiologist and Fox News contributor.