Posted on 05/12/2021 4:43:53 PM PDT by MtnClimber
The American Medical Association (AMA), the largest national organization representing physicians and medical students in the United States, says it will set aside its long-held concept of meritocracy in favor of “racial justice” and “health equity.”
In an 86-page strategic plan released May 11, the AMA set out a three-year road map detailing how the advocacy group will use its influence to dismantle “structural and institutional racism” and advance “social and racial justice” in America’s health care system.
According to its plan, the AMA will be following a host of strategies, including implementing “racial and social justice” throughout the AMA enterprise culture, systems, policies, and practices; expanding medical education to include critical race theory; and pushing toward “racial healing, reconciliation, and transformation” regarding the organization’s own “racially discriminatory” past.
The AMA also makes clear that it now rejects the concepts of “equality” and “meritocracy,” which have been goals in the fields of medical science and medical care.
“Equality as a process means providing the same amounts and types of resources across populations,” the association said. “Seeking to treat everyone the ‘same,’ ignores the historical legacy of disinvestment and deprivation through historical policy and practice of marginalizing and minoritizing communities.”
While the AMA doesn’t run America’s health care system, it holds tremendous influence over medical schools and teaching hospitals that train physicians and other health professionals. Those institutes, the AMA says, must reject meritocracy, which it describes as a harmful narrative that “ignores the inequitably distributed social, structural and political resources.”
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The USA is going insane right in front of my eyes.
Yeah, that will go over well..,
“The USA is going insane right in front of my eyes.”
It might be, but this from the AMA is hardly a surprise. They are a worthless organization that does little to nothing positive for American medicine.
They are pro abortion. What do people expect?
Stop it. You are scaring me. Our new generation of doctors will not be required to know what they are doing(?).
I haven’t been to a white doctor in years. They are all either Indian or Pakistani. The dentists are all Korean.
Under no circumstances go to a minority doctor.. find a white doctor already in practice
No wonder.my doctor can’t figure anything out.
Asian doctors are fine.......get a grip.
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“Equality as a process means providing the same amounts and types of resources across populations,” the association said.
No, that’s not what it means. It means people will be treated equally regardless of their gender, race or national origin, however women will have more money spent on them for pregnancies, menopause etc. and blacks will have more resources directed towards treating sickle cell anemia. Gays will disproportionately have money spent on aids treatments.
Why are so many seemingly intelligent people so stupid?
In India medical school is an undergraduate degree not a post graduate degree as it is in the US... I made the decision to to only see US trained Doctors
Generally, the AMA has not grabbed many headlines during the Covid scamdemic choosing to be rather silent but wake up to this? It has been quite obvious like most of these organizations that they are corrupted and politicized.
And another one bites the dust. Remember when homosexuality was considered a mental disease?
How are they going to fix POC doctors being sued more often?
Most doctors are not involved with the AMA, and realize it is nothing but another liberal front group.
Completely
This whole CRT thing will end very badly.
They’ve been far left for years; I’m only surprised Disney beat them to it.
Or they will be like KILLER KING in Los Angeles that just kept racking up lawsuits and stayed in business for years...IT WAS RUN BY BLACKS.....
The black nurses finally killed off Killer King by refusing to help a Latina woman who died as she was being carried out by the cops....Edith Isabel Rodriguez helped shut down a horrendous affirmative action hospital....(and it was a teaching hospital)
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