Posted on 04/12/2022 2:50:51 PM PDT by karpov
Woke medical education is expanding across the United States, which is cause for great concern. One of the last common experiences people have today is going to the doctor. When one is sick and in need of treatment, typically one would want the most intelligent and skilled doctor available.
Medical schools, however, are not striving to produce the best doctors possible; they are now striving to produce the most equitable and “woke” doctors possible. No doubt, the consequences of this will be immense and profound. A webinar hosted by the National Association of Scholars (NAS) in February dived into the origins and consequences of woke medical education.
The webinar, entitled “Hypocritical Oath: The Origins and Consequences of Woke Medical Education,” featured Dr. Sally Satel, a practicing psychiatrist, lecturer at the Yale University School of Medicine, and Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute; Aaron Sibarium, associate editor at the Washington Free Beacon; and John Sailer, a research associate at the National Association of Scholars and author of numerous articles on “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) in medical education.
Satel began the talk by speaking about how woke ideology has taken over psychiatric care. She stated, “any kind of psychotherapy that takes place under such conditions, where patients are reflexively branded as oppressed and encouraged to see themselves as feeble victims, is doomed to fail.” She made the point that therapy is meant to help individuals identify the inadvertent ways in which they undermine their best interests and how they can adapt if they are unable to change. To be sure, one’s health can be affected by social factors—but not exclusively. There are other factors that impact health, despite the new social doctrine of the day.
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I’m really “off” on the whole medical business. I’m over due for a check-up, and I’ll go and get my blood pressure meds adjusted, I suppose. But I have long opposed extreme measures for medical problems. That’s my choice, yours may be different. Both my parents had cancer. Doctors did absolutely everything they possibly could. It just caused misery, and didn’t prevent death. I don’t think I need that. I don’t trust them, and I don’t think they can help all that much. I’ll just go when the Good Lord decides it’s time.
Psychiatry is not really a science.
This krap has to stop.
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