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Maggie's avatar

It is extremely weird that Casey Means did 4.5 years of a surgical residency and didn't graduate. The most likely explanation is that she was told she wasn't up to snuff, the program didn't want to graduate her, and she knew a resignation would look better than a termination. It is also extremely weird that she has no active medical license. Many states will grant an active license to anyone who has completed just a year or two of residency, if there are no red flags. This kind of suggests there are red flags. It could be competency-related, or personal issues, or that something went really off the rails at her residency.

Also people who really want to address the roots of chronic health tend to gravitate towards primary care specialties and not high-paying surgical subspecialties (this isn't at dig at surgical subspecialists, I love you guys!) It's just that her whole story doesn't add up. It all points to a picture of an incompetent woman (despite the academic pedigree) couldn't hack it in the real world and now, either through a combination of self-delusion and ambition, has decided to cash in on other people's ignorance. She'll fit right in with Oz and RFK.

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Egger, it’s just that she’s praying to the *wrong* inanimate objects. Swap those things for some gold Trump knick-knacks and she’s a half-step from the Kristi Noem infomercial circuit.

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