First vaccines, now mammograms? RFK Jr.’s latest firings have doctors outraged.
Likewise, Jan Carney, president of the American College of Physicians, said the group was “alarmed” while blasting the firing of the two doctors from the task force.
“Both physicians are highly qualified experts, and we take issue with the lack of transparency in any review that Secretary Kennedy has conducted of members of the task force,” Carney said. “The firings come as the task force has not met over the course of the past year and has been prevented from doing their work to ensure that the American public has up-to-date guidance, based on the best-available evidence, about preventive health care services. The USPSTF guidance is critical to a healthy America, and we must not allow its membership or processes to be politicized.”
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The two fired USPSTF members were John Wong, a professor at the Tufts University School of Medicine, and Esa Davis, a professor at the University of...
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