MedPage Today March 4, 2025
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— Hopkins surgeon will appear Thursday before a Senate panel considering his nomination

Marty Makary, MD, MPH, rose to national attention by skewering the medical establishment in books and papers and bashing the federal response to COVID-19opens in a new tab or window on TV.

Now the Johns Hopkins University surgeon and researcher has been nominated to lead the FDAopens in a new tab or window. The agency — responsible for regulating products ranging from toothpaste to vaccines — is famously understated, issuing carefully worded statements devoid of opinion or scientific speculation.

That’s the opposite approach of Makary, whose sweeping rhetoric and biting criticism often veer into hyperbole, according to a review of recent speeches, interviews, and podcast appearances by...

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