President-elect Donald Trump continues to be highly praised by his supporters and allies in Congress for his seemingly neverending list of amazing selections for his upcoming administration.
One of those hires is Dr. Janette Nesheiwat, 48, who he chose to be the next surgeon general of the United States.
Nesheiwat is a highly respected, popular doctor who often makes appearances on Fox News and has talked at times about how the death of her father at a young age is what inspired her to get into medicine.
Over the weekend, according to the Daily Mail, The New York Times revealed that the doctor was involved in a freak accident at a young age that resulted in her father's death.
Reportedly taken from information contained in a police report from 1990, then-13-year-old Nesheiwat was in her father's bedroom attempting to locate a pair of scissors.
As she fumbled for the scissors in a tackle box on a shelf, it fell to the ground, and she reportedly heard a loud bang as a result, which ended up being a .38 caliber handgun that went off.
Unfortunately, the bullet from the gun struck her father in the head, and he died the next day in the hospital. Her father, Ben, was 44 at the time of his tragic and unfortunate death.
The Daily Mail noted:
‘I was in father’s bedroom at around 7.15am getting some scissors. I opened the fishing tackle box and the whole thing tipped over.
‘Something fell out of it and there was a loud noise. I saw blood on my father’s ear.’
Not surprisingly, the situation had a profound impact on the then-teenager, and it would inspire her to go on to seek out a career in medicine, citing the lack of being able to save him at the time of the bizarre, freak accident.
"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," she wrote in her memoir, "Beyond The Stethoscope."
While virtually all of Trump's picks for his Cabinet and administration have been well received, Nesheiwat is on the edge of that warm reception, as many social media users pointed out that her stance during the pandemic on masks is a "deal breaker."
"Dr. Janette Nesheiwat supported masking kids in school. DEALBREAKER," Liz Wheeler wrote on X.
Another X user wrote, "We have to call out all bad appointments. It’s our duty. It’ll be to her benefit to go on shows like yours to tell the American people where she went wrong."
Others noted that in 2022 she seemed to have a change in thinking on the matter. She's expected to have a pretty straightforward Senate confirmation.
