Doctors raise concerns about appointees’ views and experience
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has named new members to the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, which NPR describes as powerful and as playing a key role in determining the kind of preventive care people get.
In what NPR characterized as a major departure from past practice, the new members of the task force include specialists rather than experts on preventive care and general medicine. The change has prompted concern among many doctors, who expressed fears about the views and experience of the new appointees, according to NPR health reporter Rob Stein.