Your new FDA Director?

[zoiDman]

Is this anything buy a rumor right now?

Not that I know of.

Kinda like the Romney as Secretary of State flavor of the week thing.

 

[Rossum]

Not that I know of.
Kinda like the Romney as Secretary of State flavor of the week thing.

Right. Trump has gotten quite adept at providing squirrels for the media-dogs to chase.

That said, I have a high degree of confidence that Jim O’Neil would get the FDA off our backs if he actually were to become head of the FDA.

 

[zoiDman]

Right. Trump has gotten quite adept at providing squirrels for the media-dogs to chase.

That said, I have a high degree of confidence that Jim O’Neil would get the FDA off our backs if he actually were to become head of the FDA.

To be Honest, I don't know How Much of it is Trump? Or Trump's Handlers? Or how much it is the Media inventing news for Analytics?

e-Cigarettes are One Concern when it comes to FDA Leadership. And O'Neil would most likely take a much Softer approach. I just wonder about what Direction someone like O'Neil would want to take the FDA in Non e-Cigarette/tobacco related areas?

I just Don't know much about Him. Only what I have read recently.

 

[CarolT]

I bet there is a scramble right now suggesting people to fill the several thousand appointed positions the president gets to decide. Should the vape community or the advocate organizations be trying to participate in that process? Are they already? The Surgeon General has two more years for his term. May be he will do the nation a favor and go back to his Ivory tower and get out of our lives.

Surgeons General don't have "terms." They're political appointees who serve at the choice of the president.

 

[sofarsogood]

Surgeons General don't have "terms." They're political appointees who serve at the choice of the president.

A page I found says 4 year term. I'm sure he'd resign if asked. Now he strikes me as sounding like a corrupt scientist instead of the kindly doctor. By omitting us from his concerns he shows no concern, not who I want for my doctor. Drain the swamp.

 

[zoiDman]

Surgeons General don't have "terms." They're political appointees who serve at the choice of the president.

Technically, the Surgeon General does have a 4 Year Term in office.

But there is Nothing Stopping a President, thru the HHS Sec, from removing a Surgeon General, and then Nominating a New one.

The New Surgeon General would then need to be Approved by Congress. Much the Same as Many/Most Political Appointees.

 

[CarolT]

A page I found says 4 year term. I'm sure he'd resign if asked. Now he strikes me as sounding like a corrupt scientist instead of the kindly doctor. By omitting us from his concerns he shows no concern, not who I want for my doctor. Drain the swamp.

Sure it says there's supposedly a term of office. But the office doesn't even have to be filled, and there have been more Acting Surgeons General than actual SGs in recent decades. As a practical matter the SG could be effectively bypassed if the chief executive disapproved of him. The SG ranks below an Assistant Secretary for Health in DHHS. The NRA doesn't like Murthy so they are probably his most powerful enemies. I doubt that they would want him hanging around until 2018.

Also, the Surgeon General is really just a figurehead for a corrupt little clique of permanent professional anti-smokers, who actually concoct the so-called SG reports. Koop hadn't even been confirmed during the period that "his" report was being compiled. That corrupt little permanent clique is the swamp that needs to be drained.

 

[zoiDman]

...

Also, the Surgeon General is really just a figurehead for a corrupt little clique of permanent professional anti-smokers, who actually concoct the so-called SG reports. Koop hadn't even been confirmed during the period the period that "his" report was being compiled. That corrupt little permanent clique is the swamp that needs to be drained.

I like to think of the Most of the modern day Surgeon Generals as "Agenda Puppets".

Kinda like an Infomercial in a Uniform. Hawking the wares of their Political Overlords.

 

[CarolT]

I like to think of the Most of the modern day Surgeon Generals as "Agenda Puppets".

Kinda like an Infomercial in a Uniform. Hawking the wares of their Political Overlords.

"an Infomercial in a Uniform" - that's a good one!

 

[CarolT]

Sure it says there's supposedly a term of office. But the office doesn't even have to be filled, and there have been more Acting Surgeons General than actual SGs in recent decades. As a practical matter the SG could be effectively bypassed if the chief executive disapproved of him. The SG ranks below an Assistant Secretary for Health in DHHS. The NRA doesn't like Murthy so they are probably his most powerful enemies. I doubt that they would want him hanging around until 2018.

Also, the Surgeon General is really just a figurehead for a corrupt little clique of permanent professional anti-smokers, who actually concoct the so-called SG reports. Koop hadn't even been confirmed during the period that "his" report was being compiled. That corrupt little permanent clique is the swamp that needs to be drained.

Murthy has resigned. His replacement, Rear Adm. Sylvia Trent-Adams, seems to be most interested in HIV/AIDS.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/21/us/politics/surgeon-general-trump-administration.html

 

[retired1]

As this thread topic is about the FDA and we continue to discuss the Surgeon General, closing.