Posted on 10/30/2025 8:29:25 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
Alice Walton, heir to the Walmart fortune and the world's wealthiest woman, is on a mission to reimagine medical education with an innovative new school in Arkansas that is welcoming its inaugural class tuition-free. The facility is equipped with state-of-the-art technology but the unique curriculum also embraces healing through the arts and humanity.
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Alice’s transformative experiences in the arts led to an interest in wellness, and how art, nature, and the spaces around us shape and improve our lives. In 2019, Alice established Heartland Whole Health Institute, a non-profit organization that puts a whole health approach at the center of the broader health care system to address the current health care crisis. In 2021, she founded Alice L. Walton School of Medicine, which will offer a four-year, medical degree-granting program (pending accreditation) that integrates traditional medical education with the arts, humanities, and whole health principles…
This reminds me. Whatever happened to that bird brain, Cindy Sheehan?
Yeah, accreditation might be tough if all the frillies crowds out biology and how to keep it healthy. Of course, hard core traditional medicine is over reliant on drugs.
The irony being, what a “Mainstay” (pun intended) fixture Walmarts are on our country’s collective landscape…Whether for better or worse…
I’d love to see how she “reimagines healthcare” in the ghettos. This type of “innovative thinking” usually only works in a homogenous affluent community.
No argument there.
Drugs should be the last resort rather then the first but there usually will come a time when they are needed.
When that happens, changing the colors in your bedroom are not going to make the staph infection go away.
Bringing classical music education to the inner city:
https://youtu.be/rMi_8cM-_44?si=dxu2uxJ4TyBd7pCH
Oh please! What stupid ideas. She inherited too much money and doesn’t have a clue as what to do with it.
The Heart Attack. After suffering what he thinks is a heart attack, George discovers he has inflamed tonsils and seeks alternative medicine to heal.
This practice could be a table in Walmart next to the HR Block table:
Doctor: “OK, put this under your tongue, and this in your butt. Wait, it’s the other way around.
Say, do you prefer the Roundheads or the Cavaliers in England’s Glorious Revolution?”
Shopper: I’m not sure.
I’ve heard the Walton Family’s political giving leans Left.
Makes you realize how special Elon Musk is. Prayers for him.
How to waste a few billion.
Waste of time. Touchy feely medicine not going to affect cold hard physical decay or derangement of tissue to a large degree. Put that Walmart money into appropriate research.
Start a touchy feely institute , but don’t put it into curriculum of med school. Not until it can be proven to work every time on the targeted disease.
My MD is Nigerian, went to med school there.
He’s far more interested in keeping me healthy than curing me from all the awful diseases I’ll never get. No Covid shot for me. And he literally prescribes a handful of nutritional supplements to keep me healthy along with two prescription drugs.
I’m 89, weigh about 112 exercise daily. Just got back from terrific four day trip with my daughter from Spokane to New Orleans.
Life is fun 1hen you’re healthy.
The Richest Woman in the world, Walton donated $353,400 to the Hillary Victory Fund, a joint fundraising committee supporting Hillary Clinton and other Democrats, in 2016.
Idiocy total idiocy. My heart surgeon did not sturdy arts and humanity. He spent years and years studying and being trained in thoracic surgery. I did research him and found him to be the real deal. He was also head of thoracic surgery in a major teaching hospital and part of Texas AM Medical teaching staff for thoracic surgery. After my researching him I told him, "You can cut on me and my heart." Oddly he was from India and Hindu. That had no bearing on my decision. He was one of the best here in Texas. He saved my life. His bedside manor was actually indifferent. He skill is what I wanted and received.
Recently, mine have been from Armenia and Eastern Europe. It’s sad how the US Medical Education system of late raises so many red flags. Don’t want to generalize. There are exceptions. And US still leads in so many specializations.
But it seems like the type of students who do well in the current system, are not necessarily the “best” but the most conformist…?
Or it may just be the profit motive; insurance and Big Pharma industrial complex ends up taking over the collective psyche of the medical profession…jading aspiring doctors early on. 🫤
A he’ll of a lot more money than a shred of good sense. A common disease of unearned wealth.
What a bunch of happy horseshit.
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