Posted on 09/02/2022 9:37:00 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
University of Minnesota Medical School students took an oath to “promote a culture of anti-racism” during an Aug. 19 white coat ceremony.
White coats, the students said, are themselves a “symbol of power, prestige, and dominance.” Therefore, students will “strive to reclaim their identity as a symbol of responsibility, humility, and loving kindness.”
“We commit to uprooting the legacy and perpetuation of structural violence deeply embedded within the health care system,” the students said, according to a video of the ceremony.
Dr. Robert Englander, associate dean for undergraduate medical education, led students in reciting the oath, which he described as “beautiful.” He said the class oath was written by the students in consultation with their faculty advisors.
“We recognize inequities built by past and present traumas rooted in white supremacy, colonialism, the gender binary, ableism, and all forms of oppression,” the students said in their oath.
“As we enter this profession with opportunity for growth, we commit to promoting a culture of anti-racism, listening, and amplifying voices for positive change. We pledge to honor all Indigenous ways of healing that have been historically marginalized by Western medicine. Knowing that health is intimately connected to our environment, we commit to healing our planet and communities,” the students continued.
Students wrote a similar oath last year, pledging to be “actively anti-racist.”
The University of Minnesota Medical School is consistently ranked one of the best in the nation and was recently awarded the number-three spot on U.S. News and World Report’s list of the best schools for primary care.
But it has failed to buck the trend of wokeness in medicine in recent years, as evidenced by its participation in an “Anti-Racist Transformation in Medical Education” program.
This left-wing bias extends to other areas of the university as well. The dean of the College of Design, for instance, claimed during a commencement ceremony this year that George Floyd and Daunte Wright were killed because of “anti-black racism.”
Despite sounding admirable, anti-racism is a term popularized by author Ibram X. Kendi, who explicitly calls for discrimination in his writings.
“The only remedy to racist discrimination is anti-racist discrimination. The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination,” Kendi writes in one of his books.
These ideas are the basis for things like the new Minneapolis teachers union contract, which requires laying off white teachers first, or the University of Minnesota’s own lecture on “recovering” from whiteness.
Who knew?
Is this supposed to be more sacred than the Hippocratic oath that they’ve tossed aside?
in place of first do no harm...
White coats are the symbol of sterile. Has nothing to do with race. What idiots.
I remember when nurses wore starched white uniforms and a white hat.
Now one doesn’t know if that person coming into the room in the middle of the night is who they’re suppose to be.
Thanks.
I was going to include that phrase in my comments. Forgot.
“We commit to uprooting the legacy and perpetuation of structural violence deeply embedded within the health care system . . .”
This fits into the last days revelation.
The United States. A once great nation.
The universities have become cults.
And they use taxpayer money to fund their cult.
They know they are the gatekeepers. But they depend on other people’s money: that’s what has to be taken away.
Paying for our own destruction is not what was envisioned back in 1776.
“”ableism””
A new word created... Is this a school where they have working brains replaced with hollow nonworking ones? Is that what is needed for admittance?
What on earth is wrong with MN? Reasonable people ought to be looking for a route out of that state..
Is it too cold or what?
Well, I should hope so. Because every time I go to a doctor things get violent. Sometimes the doctor will challenge me to a fistfight. Sometimes one of the nurses will come at me with a baseball bat. And frankly I’m getting tired of it.
If staying out of the clutches of Big Med isn’t the best reason to eat right and exercise....
SIGH
Some of the bottom half will end up working at the VA ...
::other people’s money: that’s what has to be taken away.::
And now, not later! Let them feel it...
“I promise to make sure that Whitey gets his cracker ass to the back of the line as reparations for the sins, real or imagined, of his ancestors...”
How about committing to learning anatomy, physiology, pathology and pharmacology? What happened to students who refused to commit to this nonsense?
it’s sick
The oath: Baa baa baa baa....
This is a painting of a leading American Physician Surgeon in 1875, Dr Samuel Gross, as painted by Thomas Eakins. Showing an active operation, this was the pre-antiseptic era typical physician clothing. Dark clothing hid the normal stains so it required less cleaning and thus lasted longer.
For contrast, this is the same subject matter, an operation, by the same painter, done 14 years later, "The Agnew Clinic". While still a far cry from out hospitals of today, note the influences from Pasteur and Lister as a sea-change from the prior painting. White gowns, an operating theater with auditorium seating and the personnel sufficient for assistance and guidance.
This bit with academia at all levels STOOPING to ignorance in areas like this is abhorrent! This is not teaching, it is PANDERING at its worse!
Well, at least it’s something that gets the morons some news time.
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