Posted on 12/10/2021 1:44:14 PM PST by CheshireTheCat
A psychiatrist named Sally Satel, who used to be part of the faculty at Yale, gave a guest lecture at the school in January on the opioid crisis with a focus on a town in Ohio.
Shortly afterwards, a letter was sent to the department chair from “Concerned Yale Psychiatry Residents” which claimed her lecture was ‘traumatizing’ and accusing Satel of being a racist.
Last week, Dr. Satel published a column at Quillette decrying the injection of social justice in medicine, and described what happened last January:
On January 8th, 2021, I had my own encounter with intolerance in academic medicine. Via Zoom, I gave a Grand Rounds lecture to the Yale Department of Psychiatry, where I had been a resident for four years and an assistant professor for five. I left New Haven in 1993 to pursue a health policy fellowship in Washington, DC and eventually joined a think tank there, but remained a lecturer in the department. My talk was about the year I spent assisting with treatment efforts in Ironton, a small, embattled town in south-eastern Ohio that was reeling from the opioid crisis.
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At least they self identify.
“Dr. Satel is known for her highly problematic and racist canon that explicitly blames individuals facing structural inequities for their own health outcomes.”
They had the knives out before she even gave her talk.
Sounds like they need a field trip.
“a letter was sent to the department chair from “Concerned Yale Psychiatry Residents” which claimed her lecture was ‘traumatizing’”
“Psychiatry Residents” are traumatized by a lecture and are probably going to open a practice upon graduation and listen to patients describe horrifying experiences they’ve lived through and be able to guide them through a healing process? ... Bwhahahahahahaha
How these weird birds ever amassed the power to lock up anyone besides themselves is a mystery.
What Dr. Satel said seems to make sense, unlike the idiots who complained.
And Ironton, OH has only 11,000+ people, so I’m a little surprised it has an artsy-fartsy coffee shop too.
???? Doesn’t that just mean there is art in the coffee ahops? Or the coffee was hand ground?
It’s worse then you think. Diversity and equity are the new buzz words at the VA. I can only imagine what this is going to turn into. https://blogs.va.gov/VAntage/97552/social-determinants-of-health-veteran-health-equity-podcast-episode-1/?utm_source=middle&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=VetResources&utm_id=08DEC2021
‘The letter condemns Satel for having “the audacity to challenge Reverend Al Sharpton, an exemplary individual and activist.”’
Does “exemplary” cover someone who’s a bad example?
Seriously. Not my field, but I would imagine that if you’re dealing with the traditional batch of people needing — really needing — psychiatric help, then you are hearing some pretty tough stories. There are people out there who have truly been put through the wringer and who truly need help.
The psychiatric profession needs to be able to hear such people and step outside their own concerns in order to help the people who need help. If you’re the sort of “helper” who gets triggered by — I don’t know — any question about how do you like your coffee? Perhaps you like it black? If that throws you over the edge, then you are not prepared to offer help to those really who need it.
The punchline:
“The “dehumanizing, demeaning, and classist” language in question? The letter gives two examples. First, the title: “My Year Abroad: Ironton, Ohio and Lessons from the Opioid Crisis.” Second, the letter mentions a brief, affectionate aside Satel made toward the end of her lecture, highlighting the owner of what she referred to as an “artisanal coffee shop, one I would not expect to find here.” This “dehumanization,” they write, “should never be given a platform in Yale Department of Psychiatry.””
Seems like a common form of satirical humor meeting the humorless. If that’s the object of their outrage, they live incredibly comfortable lives indeed.
Does the short bus do field trips?
Me, neither. Is the coffee perhaps purple or does the owner have 3 eyes or coffee shops are banned in Ohio or please, what is so triggering? I do know the definition of “artisanal” has been highjacked and turned 180 so means nothing these days.
As an avowed coffee snob:
“artisanal coffee shop” = restaurant that recognizes and promotes the variations in coffee (beans), roasting, grinding, and brewing to create distinctly different flavors and reactions.
If you ask for a “Ethiopian Yrgacheffe, city plus roast, individual pour-over” and they say “OK” like they actually understand, it’s “artisanal”.
There’s a shop near here that roasts their own; the “medium Sumatra pour-over” is amazing - first time I’ve had a coffee that literally, chemically, induced happiness. (And I’ve had a _lot_ of distinctly different coffees. Just got my 20th coffee brewer for home.) THAT is “artisanal”.
Throwing a bag of grounds in a machine and waiting 10 minutes for brown sludge to come out isn’t “artisanal”.
Offering various hot or cold milkshakes flavored with basic espressos isn’t “artisanal”.
Art on the walls isn’t “artisanal” unless you’re actually referencing the art.
Hand-ground beans is a clue they are aware of what, generally, constitutes “artisanal”.
And by the end of this screed, I might actually be able to spell “artisanal”.
Note to self: if the headshrinker has a Yale degree on the wall, find someone else.
“first time I’ve had a coffee that literally, chemically, induced happiness. “
Be careful, there are Freepers that will accuse you of being a drug addict.
Medical students. They'll be America's future doctors ... Wow.
That's the same school where idiotic black freshmen students maniacally cursed (like wild animals) at their professor simply because he disagreed with their insane demands for a "safe space" (for black students) where all white people are permanently banned. You can watch the actual video on youtube (search for: "new full version yale protest"). The full video is almost 25 mins long. It's funnier than any Hollywood comedy.
In that video, cry-baby students gang up on and intimidate a weak Yale professor, forcing him to repeatedly apologize to them. Then some of them begin uncontrollably crying and clicking their fingers. The black student gang frantically curses at the professor. One angry, moronic black student gets right in the professor's face and yells: "Look at me! Look at me!" That angry black student then tells the Yale professor he'll take his course next semester. The professor smiles and says he's happy to have him as a student. But the black student idiotically reprimands the professor again: "This situation does not require you to smile!" WTF? The weak professor once again lamely apologizes. (You can't make this stuff up.)
The video indisputably proves how dumb the "best and brightest" college students are today. Affirmative action has resulted in the dumbest, most condescending, always-angry, snowflake-iest students being foolishly admitted into the most prestigious schools in the country including Harvard, Stanford, Yale, and Princeton. So you can only imagine what's going on at the rest of the colleges in America. Yikes!
P.S. Notice how many of the naive black students scream at the highly-educated white professor: "Do you understand that ...?" "Do you realize that ...?" (As though they have a clue.) ROFL! That can only happen at the most liberal, socialist colleges in the country. Affirmative Action.
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