OAN Staff Abril Elfi
12:10 PM – Sunday, December 8, 2024
According to a report, President-elect Donald Trump’s Surgeon General nominee Janette Nesheiwat was involved in a gun accident when she was 13-years-old that left her father dead.
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The New York Times reported that in February of 1990, Nesheiwat was searching for a pair of scissors that were in a tacklebox on a shelf above the bed where her father slept when she accidentally knocked it over and a .380 caliber handgun fell out of the container and discharged — striking her sleeping dad in the head.
“I saw blood on my father’s ear,” a young Nesheiwat told police at the time, The Times reports.
The police report then stated that her father, Ziad “Ben” Nesheiwat, was declared dead the following day at an Orlando hospital in what was ruled an accidental shooting.
In her 2017 “Beyond the Sethoscope” memoir, Nesheiwat recounted the loss of her father and how it inspired her to pursue a medicine career. However, she did not mention her involvement in the tragedy.
“When I was 13 years old I helplessly watched my dear father dying from an accident as blood was spurting everywhere. I couldn’t save his life. This was the start of my personal journey in life to become a physician,” Dr. Nesheiwat wrote in the very first sentence of that memoir.
“The trauma of that moment clung to me like a relentless shadow, unraveling the fabric of my young life and leaving me in a perpetual state of devastation,” she wrote.
According to the New York Times, the doctor has never publicly acknowledged her father’s death as the result of an accidental gunshot or discussed her role in the tragedy.
Dr. Nesheiwat went on to have a career centered on practical medicine, first working on the ground after natural disasters and later as medical director for CityMD, a network of urgent care clinics in New York and NJ. She’s also a Fox News contributor.
“Her expertise and leadership have been pivotal during some of the most challenging Healthcare crises of our time,” Trump said in a statement at the time of her nomination last month.
The president-elect then said that Nesheiwat worked on the front lines in New York City at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Dr. Nesheiwat will play a pivotal role in MAKING AMERICA HEALTHY AGAIN!,” the president-elect emphasized.
The doctor’s sister, Julie Nesheiwat, served as Trump’s homeland security adviser during his first term in office.
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