The answer involves looking at the competence of those running medical schools.
These individuals are incompetent, which strongly suggests low IQ.
I want to go see a Social Activist.
We need to save the planet—that means a lot less humans—that means dumbing down doctors....
:-(
They need woke doctors who will kill babies and euthanize old people
It’s much more important to me that my physician has my same skin color than whether he makes a bad decision that kills me.
I am of the opinion that EEE (Education / Experience / Expertise) should be used instead.
“Doc, all of a sudden I get dizzy when I walk up stairs. I get totally out of breath, and the other day I completely passed out when I got to the top. I think something is wrong.”
“Yeah, you bet something is wrong. You’re a racist!”
Social activists of course for those serving the general public. Heck, why train them, just hire more folks from India with a (((supposed))) medical education/training. It’s cheaper.
But they need to be top tier for those serving the political elite and our oligarchs.
We have a granddaughter in 2nd year of med school...
She tells me DEI crap goes in one ear and out the other without stopping...
“Should Med Schools Strive To Produce Competent Physicians Or Social Activists?”
Gee, I don’t know. Let me ponder that for a couple of microseconds.
Back in 1982 the class ahead of me at Northwestern had a “quota student”. A Black female. Flunked her freshman year. Flunked it again. And they STILL tried to drag her by the weave through school. Thank God she finally gave up. God only knows how many she would have maimed or killed. And she took a spot some competent student could have used to actually treat patients.
You don’t need a to be a genius or complex thinker to be a “health care professional,” in America.
It takes damn near zero brains to follow a flow chart.
American health care has turned into conveyor belt health care. It’s managed health care. It’s socialist health care with a private store front (insurance companies).
It actually combines the worst of both worlds, combining the corporate greed with its monopolies and price gouging from big pharma, hospitals etc. with a government managed system in regards what the standard of care is defined as: FDA, CDC, DEA, NIH.
So, the American pays an incredibly high price for Euro style government managed health care.
You don’t need the smartest for that. Just people that can follow rules.
I literally believe that the Deep State has influenced enrollment standards and curricula for medical students to select for psychologically conforming people.
I recall decades ago finding physicians to be expert critical thinkers, able to swiftly make deductions and analyze novel situations.
Now I find they are reliant on pre-defined ICD-9 codes and if your symptoms do not meet an ICD-9, they believe you are making it up.
When the CDC was pushing the whole ‘Covid’ narrative, those docs with critical thinking skills were getting canceled and the rest were confidently trusting every.single.pronouncement as if it was Gospel if it came from the CDC.
Note that our television ‘programming’ helped cover this transition from doctors who were ‘thinkers’ to those who are blinded ‘comply-ers.’ I withdrew from television when TV ‘programming’ featured doctors-as-champions who were always bucking the system, risking their careers for their patients, weekly. I reasoned that the ER was about the last place I wanted to be at any given moment and yet there were programs to make it seem like the center of life, romance, valor, excitement. Sick.
But a few generations of Americans have been raised on this image, even as the physician pool increasingly incorporates compliant and unqualified applicants, as long as they signal absolute conformity.
The public has been ‘programmed’ to trust the medical establishment far beyond reason and the physicians have been selected/trained/credentialed to trust and obey the medical regime without question.
Dr. McCullough was among the first doctors to square off with the medical regime on the subject of Covid and Covid ‘vaccines’. He was moved by the suffering of patients told to go home until their lips turn blue and then go to the ER. His medical group formed an effective Covid protocol and he has testified in front of officials as to the effective treatments available, and later about the ‘vaccine’ harm. For this the establishment is working to destroy him, but he fights on.
But I recall watching one of his interviews where he was puzzled, asking where the public ever got the impression that doctors are warriors who fight the good fight, saying, “We’re rule followers.”
Well to some extent, they have rules to follow, but I do recall physicians from decades ago who would be disgusted if not furious to be told to shut down their reasoning facilities re the vaccine, (i.e., ‘If you collapse and feel sick after vaccination, it means it’s working!”)
I think it took years of modifications to applications, training and testing to hone a force of obedient medical drones. The CDC created licensure for the US hospital system - all are now licensed, and that gave the CDC more control/compliance as, among other things, freedom from liability and financial incentives abound.
They want real doctors, it should be about knowledge, quality/performance, ethics.
Using Medicine, and its reputation to push social agendas isn’t just unethical, it’s just plain evil.
The need a DEI and Woke school for the rest. Good luck reputation, salary, and public need in the future with that training.
What did you expect to happen once Obamacare passed and health care became a federal government agency?
Just like ruining the military, the left is now destroying health care. Seems like a simple way to get to their goal of significantly reducing the population of this country to make room for all those illegal aliens who will forever vote for a dictatorship.
The word “competent” is from the white supremacy dictionary, just get rid of it. Problem solved.
So ruminates the academic who titles his op-ed with a rhetorical question.
ID ten T.
Wow. Tough question.
The question should even need to be asked?????
Duh...