Posted on 06/04/2021 4:25:09 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Following the Civil Rights movement, physicians took seriously their obligation to treat all patients. This principle separated them from the federal government’s grotesque 40-year-long Tuskegee Experiment
SNIP
Katie Herzog’s “What Happens When Doctors Can’t Tell the Truth?” examines a world in which doctors are silenced for fear that they will be destroyed professionally should they run afoul of the Critical Race Theory infecting medical care across America and in which young doctors, imbued with “anti-racist” zeal have the whip hand. Herzog begins her article by describing a super-secret Zoom group of a dozen physicians across America, who serve as a support group for each other as they navigate the totalitarian world of woke medicine:
This dogma goes by many imperfect names — wokeness, social justice, critical race theory, anti-racism — but whatever it’s called, the doctors say this ideology is stifling critical thinking and dissent in the name of progress. They say that it’s turning students against their teachers and patients and racializing even the smallest interpersonal interactions. Most concerning, they insist that it is threatening the foundations of patient care, of research, and of medicine itself.
The article acknowledges that some traditional healthcare protocols have not served minority patients well. However, that’s a small problem compared to the chilling effect wokeness is having on physician’s ability to provide good medical care and, just as importantly, to train rigorously the next generation of doctors:
I’ve heard from doctors who’ve been reported to their departments for criticizing residents for being late. (It was seen by their trainees as an act of racism.) I’ve heard from doctors who’ve stopped giving trainees honest feedback for fear of retaliation. I’ve spoken to those who have seen clinicians and residents refuse to treat patients based on their race or their perceived conservative politics.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
If you control health care you can control the people. The doctors become enforcement tools of the state.
First, do no harm, unless dey is white debils.
Say wut?
No hospital wants BLM to have an excuse to show up. They will now expend every effort to perform “affirmative action” medicine, and severely punish doctors who put the hospital at risk of a BLM visit.
LOL.
It’s been impossible to tell a fat Black woman to lose weight for decades.
I’m months away from retiring from medicine and I can’t wait
You’re right..BLM or antifa can show up and do riots at hospitals just as easily as streets.....
Tell me about it. There was a congressional hearing on black maternal mortality rates recently in which one Dr. Crear-Perry, a black ob/gyn, stated on the record:
"The structure of our American society causes poor maternal health outcomes for Black people, not individual choices or genetics. Structural forces include our political, economic, justice, and education systems, as well as racism, immigration status, classism, gender oppression."
Sooo ... it's not that they come into pregnancies obese with all the lovely obesity-related conditions like hypertension and diabetes, or with addictions and crappy eating habits ... it's society's fault.
Thank you George Bush, whose Porkulus gave us EHRs/EMRs...
Which caused so many independent docs to retire or be eaten by health systems...
Which ensured that docs, if they wanna stay employed, will spew the party line whether it’s the best medicine for their patients or not.
Doctors no longer practice as solo practitioners or in small groups. They can be more easily controlled by hospital corporations and insurance companies. We also need to remember that academic physicians depend on government grants, so they’re just petty bureaucrats.
Doctors no longer practice as solo practitioners or in small groups. They can be more easily controlled by hospital corporations and insurance companies. We also need to remember that academic physicians depend on government grants, so they’re just petty bureaucrats.
Grumpy: Well, that is not exactly true. I began a single practitioner Internal Medicine Practice in 1982 after Military Service. After 5 years I took another physician in and two years later added a third, then 5 years after that took a 4th. We have stayed independent, EMR-free, and only encumbered by the insurance company and pharmacy obstructionist policies. Others stay away from that by going Concierge and having patients pay a yearly retainer fee but we avoided that also. Have we left money on the table by not being employed? Probably, but our sanity, professional satisfaction and patient advocacy we felt that was the best way to go. Does medicare and private insurers take a dim view and reimburse less for not playing the game their way? Yes, but it has been well worth it for us and for our patients. And don’t get me started on the use by doctors and big group’s use of fake doctors, known as NP and PA “providers” who did not go through medical school nor internship / residency etc in order to pad their coffers not infrequently at the risk of suboptimal care (not that MDs and DOs don’t sometimes render less than stellar care also). OK, I’ll jump off the soap box but just wanted to make the point that some of us still believe in small independent practice of traditional medicine, no matter how difficult.
That’s great to see. We really need to see more if this.
Very smart to avoid EMR because you dramatically lower your risk from hacking and government/insurance spying.
Going to direct payment contracting is essential to remain free of insurance and government control. Government insurance is a giant entrapment scheme.
Agree, NPs are a big drop off in quality.
After 5 days in hospital my biggest gripe is a largely foreign nursing staff woefully unable to speak or understand English. Haitian or Creole -> no problem, but English?
The worst part is they’re fully aware of the problem but instead of acknowledging an inability to understand patient requests they try to bluster through ackward situations and fall back on arbitrary rule-following behavior insisting on unquestioned compliance.
Heros gonna hero...
EMR=electronic medical records, correct?
Why how does foregoing the use of this system benefit a private practice?
Are you or your colleagues being harasped by ethics and disciplinary boards purporting to elevate or maintain the practice of medicine to meet a pro-patient “standard of care” while in actuality enforcing an inhuman political agenda that turns a blind eye to predictably terrible medical outcomes?
Anything connected to internet is vulnerable to hacking or spying. Closed system digital files are better, not connected to internet.
This is only practical for a solo or small practice.
The hospital I work in has armed security. If the ‘’woke’’ crowd ever shows up it’d be bad for the punks.
Are you or your colleagues being harasped by ethics and disciplinary boards purporting to elevate or maintain the practice of medicine to meet a pro-patient “standard of care” while in actuality enforcing an inhuman political agenda that turns a blind eye to predictably terrible medical outcomes?
So far, no. We are independent practitioners of General Internal Medicine (Adult medical care) and while the insurers are not thrilled that they do not get EMR data from us, they can get our dictated or hand-written charts.
Quite frankly we find that when we get computer generated charts they are for the most part garbage, point and click boiler plate and frequently include exam information for parts of the physical exam that the patient swears were never actually performed !! EMR had dumbed down medical care by a tremendous factor!
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