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How Do We Fix the Racism of Every White Doctor?
American Thinker ^ | 22 Mar, 2023 | Michael Applebaum, M.D.

Posted on 03/22/2023 4:55:29 AM PDT by MtnClimber

The medical establishment's prescription? Every doctor must be the same race as every patient!

Apparently, the American College of Surgeons (ACS) has taken the lead in accelerating progress toward Personalized Health Care.

So we are on the same page, let us use this definition of Personalized Health Care (emphasis in the original):

Personalized health care (PHC) is an overarching framework for care that unifies predictive technologies with an engaged patient to coordinate care with the primary aim of promoting health and preventing disease. PHC focuses on patient-centered health care, personalized health planning (PHP), shared decision-making, and patient engagement. It seeks to remedy spending on chronic care by encouraging healthy behavior and planning.

It looks as if the American College of Surgeons has chosen to advance PHC by suggesting, if not requiring, that to accomplish the above benefits, racial likeness between provider and patient is necessary.

Tucker Carlson interviewed a plastic surgeon from Florida, one Richard Bosshardt. According to the doc:

The ACS leadership went to war against itself. ... It declared the ACS ... to be structurally racist. It also went on to say that surgeons are racists and even the practice of surgery is racist. What this did is, it produced a type of messaging that now states that, as you clearly put, it's best if patients are treated by surgeons of their own race.

Bosshardt, ostensibly, was interviewed because of an op-ed he authored that was published by the WSJ in September of 2022. It is behind a paywall. In it, he wrote:

The American College of Surgeons apparently believes its members are racially biased and provide worse care to patients of color than we do to white patients, leading to disparate health outcomes.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Society
KEYWORDS: wokeism
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1 posted on 03/22/2023 4:55:29 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

Doesn’t this prove that the left is racist because they want segregation again?


2 posted on 03/22/2023 4:55:38 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Anti white racism is all that it is.


3 posted on 03/22/2023 4:57:19 AM PDT by wildcard_redneck (Biden will mess up the Ukraine worse than Afghanistan.)
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To: MtnClimber

Any reasoning person could rationally come to that conclusion.


4 posted on 03/22/2023 4:58:12 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith….)
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To: MtnClimber

If the most proficient brain surgeon out there is a tattooed freak drag queen, then that’s who I want doing surgery on my brain.


5 posted on 03/22/2023 4:58:29 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: MtnClimber

How much of “disparate health outcomes” are due to black culture, not eating healthy, being obese, and not having health insurance?


6 posted on 03/22/2023 4:59:20 AM PDT by SauronOfMordor (The rot of all principle begins with a single compromise.)
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To: SauronOfMordor

You forgot drug and alcohol addiction.....not to mention lead poisoning.


7 posted on 03/22/2023 5:00:59 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: All

Oo-ee, oo-ah-ah, ting-tang, walla-walla bing-bang


8 posted on 03/22/2023 5:01:00 AM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: MtnClimber

I feel sorry for minority physicians who are excellent, because this crap is going to harm them through no fault of their own.


9 posted on 03/22/2023 5:04:34 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Stupid is supposed to hurt.)
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To: MtnClimber

Replace them with lesser qualified black “doctors,” of course!


10 posted on 03/22/2023 5:06:05 AM PDT by E Pluribus Bellum
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To: Night Hides Not
If the most proficient brain surgeon out there is a tattooed freak drag queen, then that’s who I want doing surgery on my brain.

Mentally ill brain surgeons are best!
11 posted on 03/22/2023 5:07:06 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: MtnClimber

So ACS thinks that black doctors should have signs in their offices that read “No Whites Allowed”?


12 posted on 03/22/2023 5:08:34 AM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (I went to bed on November 3rd 2020 and woke up in 1984.)
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To: MtnClimber
The medical establishment's prescription? Every doctor must be the same race as every patient!

This white boy is quite happy with his Chinese doctor, Doctor Chang. I will not change my doctor.

13 posted on 03/22/2023 5:08:43 AM PDT by cpdiii (cane cutter-deckhand-roughneck-oil field trash- drilling fluid tech-geologist-pilot- pharmacist)
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To: MtnClimber

Sounds like my father. He was extremely overweight, smoked like chimney, and was told by his Doctors that he needed to quit smoking and lose weight. So he told me that he was switching Doctors and find a Doctor who chain smoked and was fat.


14 posted on 03/22/2023 5:13:03 AM PDT by silent majority rising
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To: MtnClimber

I avoid all DEI doctors anyways .


15 posted on 03/22/2023 5:13:39 AM PDT by ncalburt ( Gop DC Globalists are the evil)
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To: MtnClimber

I have an idea for people of color, don’t go to any white doctor. That means that if he/she is absolutely the top person to save your life, just reject him and go for picking someone less able but the right color.


16 posted on 03/22/2023 5:14:08 AM PDT by dforest (All of America has derailed.)
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To: SauronOfMordor
How much of “disparate health outcomes” are due to black culture, not eating healthy, being obese, and not having health insurance?

No, no, no. According to Oprah, "The quality of health care depends on where you live and the color of your skin."

Watch her "Color of Care" documentary. If you can stomach it.

17 posted on 03/22/2023 5:14:32 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (You can never have enough clamps. Thanks Ben.)
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To: MtnClimber
Hang on! So under this plan whites could only go to white doctors,blacks to black doctors,etc? If this were put into legislation I'd demand the right to see both white doctors *and* doctors of East Asian ancestry (Chinese/Japanese/Korean).

OTOH,I don't have the first clue how black folks would feel about this.

18 posted on 03/22/2023 5:15:13 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Two Words: BANANA REPUBLIC!)
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To: cpdiii

Maybe you have not heard? East Asian people are “White” to the Race Hustlers.

This is what seems to be “The Plan”:

1. Admit more POC, especially AA, people into medical school under Affirmative Action.
2. Give them As regardless of their ability.
3. License them to practice medicine.
4. Tell them they should only treat people of their own race
5. Express “outrage” when the health outcomes become even more disparate by race
6. Keep repeating until it “works”


19 posted on 03/22/2023 5:17:19 AM PDT by rbg81
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To: MtnClimber
That won't solve anything, because then they will just claim that they are being denied access to the best doctors, and the racism will migrate to the education process..

what a world the future holds, SMDH

20 posted on 03/22/2023 5:17:21 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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