Posted on 12/18/2019 8:17:02 AM PST by karpov
To be a successful doctor, it is no longer enough to make an accurate diagnosis and recommend an effective treatment. Today’s medical schools want their students to be well-versed in politics—and not just any politics, but issues embraced by the left. Left-leaning issues are weaving their way into the curriculum and woe to those who speak out, including faculty members.
Climate change is the newest charge. A coalition of nearly 200 health professional schools supports an initiative, backed by the American Medical Association (AMA), to instruct students on how the changing planet is impacting health and altering the course of illness and disease.
One could argue all the hysteria surrounding climate change is creating a medical issue, anxiety, especially among children. That is not, however, what the proponents of “climate medicine” have in mind. The movement is aimed at influencing world view—to train tomorrow’s doctors to look at disease and illness through a political lens of doom and gloom.
A sampling of some of the courses being offered in medical school paints a fuller picture of the inroads that climate alarmism has made.
The University of Colorado School of Medicine offers a course, Climate Medicine, that not only includes field trips to Rocky Mountain National Park but also teaches students how to write op-eds on the subject of climate change. The school also offers a fellowship focused on “climate change and health policy” for physicians.
A “Brain and Behavior” lecture at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Beth Israel explores how fossil-fuels are related to neurodegenerative conditions.
Stanford University School of Medicine student Anna Goshua told the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) that she and other students are actively working on making climate change a regular part of her school’s curriculum.
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My daughter decided on Physicians Assistant school instead of medical school.
There is nothing good about decadence of Western Civilization. When it afflicts medicine and the medical profession, it reaches a new and greater level of danger. Physicians and medical schools should focus their attention of the dangerous aspects of this decadence, such as the severe health hazards of such things as human defecation on the streets of San Francisco and Seattle, the rat infestations of Los Angeles and New York, endemic drug addiction.
When I was a kid in the 50s and 60s, the AMA was a very conservative organization.
The systemic trauma to the Hippocratic Oath has been horrific
My Niece is in third year medical school and has chosen OBGYN.
My heart is broken.
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This week, I went for my annual physical. I was handed for the first time a form which consisted of over 10 questions asking me about any depressions, moods, etc. The form “guaranteed” that it was just a survey which would never be traced to an individual respondent.
Oh, I live in Colorado, where the multiverse’s WORST Red Flag law will go into effect Jan 1.
Anyone believing that that form will not be used against them is stupid enough to think that Dorkbama has above a two digit IQ.
I’m a naturally optimistic person, but honesty should have caused me to state that the only depression I’ve had is what will HAVE to be done in the near future to take care of progressives.
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No institution is safe from the left’s grab for power.
It must be difficult to learn how to give a gynecological exam on a biological male.
Here’s the thing kids
There is non-stop I mean nonstop nonsense about health care doctors prescription drugs all this crap day in and day out
I’m going to say flat out that you should never ever ever really have to go see a doctor. End of sentence
No of course there’s exceptions you broke something you have a giant laceration you have severe pain you have cancer etc. etc. etc.
But for the most part through what you take and do your body diet and what kind of activity you get exercise you are in charge of your own health more than any doctor could ever be
Furthermore much of Western medicine iharms patients - There are over 100,000 iatrogenic or Dr. caused deaths every single year
Western medicine and teachers to primary things :drug and cut
Tell your niece of the eternal consequences of murder in this world
Creating a generation of Mengeles...will not turn out well.
The left corrupts everything it touches.
I’ve been a nurse since 1997 and my husband is a physician. We both work in academic institutions aka teaching hospitals.
I can attest 100% this is true. The medical students and residents I encounter are absolutely left wing activists first and physicians way second.
This is also true of the nursing profession. The curriculum for undergraduate nursing students was hijacked long ago and serves more as a vehicle for leftist indoctrination than a nursing education.
First hand experience here.
I have two daughters who have gone to medical school. After a strong Christian and conservative upbringing, they have, to a greater or lesser extent, rejected the values they were brought up with, particularly their faith. This is extremely disheartening to a father who was so proud to see them achieve this level of academic success.
My hope is that once they leave the academic cocoon, they will begin to understand the reasoning behind our belief in free markets, individual liberty and small government. I think it may be directly related to the size of their income tax bill.
I just leave most of it blank or lie on those forms.
I agree...we have a “doctor” for broken things, and Naturapath or wholistic doc for other issues. Dealt enough with regular MDs to know avoiding them is best.
It has taken a long long time, but THEY are winning the medical school war.
When I go to the Hospital I don’t wear my crucifix or request any religious visits.
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