By Ahmed Aboulenein

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Wellness influencer Casey Means, President Donald Trump’s nominee for U.S. surgeon general, is set to appear on Thursday before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee for her confirmation hearing.

As the nation’s doctor, the surgeon general provides Americans with the best scientific information available on how to improve their health and reduce the risk of illness and injury.

Means, 37, is appearing virtually before the committee because she is 40 weeks pregnant and will say she has spent 15 years treating thousands of patients in clinics and operating rooms as well as running her own medical practice, according to her written testimony.

Means graduated medical school at Stanford University but subsequently dropped out of

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