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Cattledog

(5,897 posts)
Sat Apr 22, 2017, 02:47 PM Apr 2017

Surgeon General Vivek Murthy was just dismissed, replaced with a nurse.

He is a strong supporter of gun control and Obamacare.

http://www.vox.com/2017/4/22/15393150/surgeon-general-vivek-murthy-was-just-dismissed-from-his-post-as-top-doctor

America’s top doctor and an Obama-appointee, Vivek Murthy, was dismissed and replaced with a nurse by the Trump Administration on Friday.

In a statement, the administration said it asked Murthy to resign from his duties after he helped with “a smooth transition.”

“Dr. Murthy, the leader of the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, was asked to resign from his duties as Surgeon General after assisting in a smooth transition into the new Trump Administration," the statement read.

"Dr. Murthy has been relieved of his duties as Surgeon General and will continue to serve as a member of the Commissioned Corps," the statement continued, adding that Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price "thanks him for his dedicated service to the nation.”

The New York Times reported a somewhat different story: Murthy was asked to step down, refused, and was fired.

He’ll be replaced by Rear Admiral Sylvia Trent-Adams, a nurse who currently serves as Deputy Surgeon General. (She will be the first non-doctor to take the post of America’s “top doctor.”)

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Surgeon General Vivek Murthy was just dismissed, replaced with a nurse. (Original Post) Cattledog Apr 2017 OP
Why? Because of his anti-gun stance...... Historic NY Apr 2017 #1
'He was replaced by his deputy, Rear Adm. Sylvia Trent-Adams, elleng Apr 2017 #2
I hate this headline. It's demeaning to nurses and to Trent-Adams Warpy Apr 2017 #3
that headline is really appalling dsc Apr 2017 #4
at least she has MEDICAL training. it ain't a lawyer. pansypoo53219 Apr 2017 #5

elleng

(130,126 posts)
2. 'He was replaced by his deputy, Rear Adm. Sylvia Trent-Adams,
Sat Apr 22, 2017, 03:28 PM
Apr 2017

one of the first nurses to serve as surgeon general.

Admiral Trent-Adams will for now be in an acting role. As of Friday evening, she had already replaced Dr. Murthy on the surgeon general’s Twitter account, and her portrait had replaced his on the agency’s Facebook page. One of the first comments on that post asked, “Where is Dr. Murthy?” . .

Admiral Trent-Adams may be the first surgeon general who is not a physician. She is not the first nurse, though. Dr. Richard Carmona, who served under President George W. Bush, was a nurse and a physician, and he sometimes referred to himself as the first nurse to serve as surgeon general. . .

Admiral Trent-Adams received a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland. She was a nurse officer in the Army and also served as a research nurse at the University of Maryland. She joined the Commissioned Corps of the Public Health Service in 1992 and served as the deputy associate administrator for the HIV/AIDS bureau of the Health Resources and Services Administration before joining the surgeon general’s office.'

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/21/us/politics/surgeon-general-trump-administration.html?

Warpy

(110,900 posts)
3. I hate this headline. It's demeaning to nurses and to Trent-Adams
Sat Apr 22, 2017, 04:25 PM
Apr 2017

who has her doctorate, fuckyouverymuch, and has been Deputy Surgeon General and knows the job.

Don't worry, Dolt45 will get some doofus MD out of Central Casting, a Marcus Welby lookalike who won't know his thumb from his bum when it comes to either public health or administration, and all will be sunshine and rose gardens.

dsc

(52,129 posts)
4. that headline is really appalling
Sat Apr 22, 2017, 04:33 PM
Apr 2017

To call an African American woman who rose to the rank of rear admiral, obtained a PhD, and is the current deputy Surgeon General strikes a nurse strikes me as rather petty.

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