

President Donald Trump has announced Dr. Nicole Saphier as his new nominee for the position of Surgeon General.Saphier is Trump’s third nominee for the post, following the withdrawal of Casey Means from the position. Means was recommended to the president for the position by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., but faced opposition in the Senate over her views on vaccinations and lack of a medical license, which stalled her confirmation.The Surgeon General is the nation's top doctor, providing Americans with the best information on health, including how to improve it and reduce illness and injury.Trump announced the nomination in a post on Truth Social, where he praised Saphier and said that she is “a STAR physician who has spent her career guiding women facing breast cancer through their diagnosis and treatment while tirelessly advocating to increase early cancer detection and prevention, while at the same time working with men and women on all other forms of cancer diagnoses and treatments.”Who Is the New Surgeon General Nominee, Nicole Saphier?Saphier is a board-certified radiologist and an associate professor at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Weill Cornell Medical College in New York, where she is the director
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