President Trump’s selection of Dr. Casey Means, a Stanford-educated wellness specialist and book author, as his next surgeon general [has] provoked a vigorous debate … over whether someone who is not a practicing physician should serve as the nation’s top doctor.

Laura Loomer, the far-right activist who holds so much sway with Mr. Trump that more than a half-dozen national security officials were fired on her advice, emerged as a vocal critic.

Dr. Means, a close ally of Mr. Kennedy’s, trained as a surgeon in otolaryngology — ear, nose and throat medicine — but left her surgical residency after four years to practice “functional medicine,” which focuses on the root causes of disease.

Ms. Loomer ridiculed Dr. Means on social media …, calling her a “total crack pot” who “USES SHROOMS AS ‘PLANT MEDICINE’ AND TALKS TO TREES!” and “DOESN’T EVEN HAVE AN ACTIVE MEDICAL LICENSE.”

This is an excerpt. Read the original post here