Posted on 06/04/2021 9:00:58 AM PDT by DeweyCA
Earlier today Bari Weiss published the first in a series of stories about the spread of woke ideology in the field of medicine. The piece was written by reporter Katie Herzog who co-hosts a podcast with Jesse Singal, another critic of cancel culture. The piece opens exactly the way some previous pieces on this topic have opened, with a group of about a dozen people who meet regularly on Zoom to discuss what they see happening in their own workplaces. The only difference is that these people are doctors.
As Herzog describes it, none of these people would be mistaken for political conservatives. They are generally progressive and believe that racism has created problems within their field, both in the past and in the present. And yet, they are concerned by the illiberal ideology they see taking over the field.
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.
Some of these doctors say that there is a “purge” underway in the world of American medicine: question the current orthodoxy and you will be pushed out. They are so worried about the dangers of speaking out about their concerns that they will not let me identify them except by the region of the country where they work.
“People are afraid to speak honestly,” said a doctor who immigrated to the U.S. from the Soviet Union. “It’s like back to the USSR, where you could only speak to the ones you trust.” If the authorities found out, you could lose your job, your status, you could go to jail or worse. The fear here is not dissimilar.
If you recall the hoax on grievance study journals perpetrated a few years ago by James Lindsay, Helen Pluckrose and Peter Boghossian, then you probably won’t be shocked to learn that some dubious social justice medical research is already appearing in medical journals.
“Wokeness feels like an existential threat,” a doctor from the Northwest said. “In health care, innovation depends on open, objective inquiry into complex problems, but that’s now undermined by this simplistic and racialized worldview where racism is seen as the cause of all disparities, despite robust data showing it’s not that simple.”
“It’s some of the most shoddy, methodologically flawed research we’ve ever seen published in these journals,” the doctor in the Zoom meeting said, “with sensational conclusions that seem totally unjustified from the results of the study.”
In particular, he was referring to a study which was widely reported last year. But anti-racism goes beyond research and sometimes impacts how the younger generation of doctors practice medicine. For instance, the group White Coats for Black Lives has chapters all over the country which, among other things, demand that hospitals cut off all connections with police. Then there are the doctors themselves:
an ER doctor on the West Coast said he sees providers, particularly younger ones, applying antiracist principles in choosing how they allocate their time and which patients they choose to work with. “I’ve heard examples of Covid-19 cases in the emergency department where providers go, ‘I’m not going to go treat that white guy, I’m going to treat the person of color instead because whatever happened to the white guy, he probably deserves it.’”
The whole thing is worth reading if you have time. I’m looking forward to part two.
The destruction of objective truth may well lead to complete destruction. This is an insidious philosophy cleverly designed to cancel any resistance.
If allowed to run its course, it will be more destructive to civilization than all of the wars in the modern era combined.
I can’t argue with you.
“Truth is whatever we say it is” has become a governing philosophy.
The ruling class is making total war on human existence.
Medicine particularly is a field where conformity is the order of the day. You get no points for bucking the system, and if you’re one of the rare types who does buck the system you can quickly find yourself on the outside looking for a new career, or defending yourself in a lawsuit.
Wokeness is demonic possession at it’s most simple level.
It’s just another part toward the reception of the mark of the beast.
It’s hate.
“ They are totalitarians and they want to discriminate against you and your health if you are a conservative.”
Exactly right. If they have their way, conservatives will be turned away from medical treatments. They should all have their licenses revoked.
HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL and other RACIST SCHOOLS
now demand:
White humans are turned away from treatment
because of their color. But THAT is not racism, they say.
CUSP POINT:
Remove the Schools’ certifications.
Remove their licenses.
Indict those that murdered people by DELAYING TREATMENT
KNOWINGLY ...
or die.
Exactly!
Especially if he’s black. :)
Medical personnel who make statements that they won’t treat white people should be reported and they should lose their medical licenses. And they should be sued civilly if they refuse to treat or if they consciously mistreat.
It is an existential threat to those who think being ‘woke’ is in their best interest.
I have one of those in my wallet too. Someone who was kidding around with me and asked me why I thought I was so special got that card pulled on them. They laughed their self silly.
What’s funny is that the MSM considers anyone that carries one of those to be a far right white supremist.
The left has zero sense of humor.
I hate these evil communist killers.
This is one of the best pieces I have ever read. It led me to the Bari Weiss blog where Katie Herzog posted it.
Weiss and Hertzog may be the new David Horowitz/Tammy Bruce/Camille Paglia exemplars of former lefty ideologues who have been burned in their consciences to look more clearly at reality.
It’s called “Common Sense” (and that rings a revolutionary bell).
https://bariweiss.substack.com/
“If” this, “should” that. It’s already been happening for a long time, and I’ve seen the hatred first hand on several occasions. If you’re a white, working class man, you’re dead meat in a hospital.
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