Posted on 05/02/2022 6:39:43 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
For years, pediatricians have followed flawed guidelines linking race to risks for urinary infections and newborn jaundice. In a new policy announced Monday, the American Academy of Pediatrics said it is putting all its guidance under the microscope to eliminate “race-based” medicine and resulting health disparities.
A re-examination of AAP treatment recommendations that began before George Floyd’s 2020 death and intensified after it has doctors concerned that Black youngsters have been undertreated and overlooked, said Dr. Joseph Wright, lead author of the new policy and chief health equity officer at the University of Maryland’s medical system.
The influential academy has begun purging outdated advice. It is committing to scrutinizing its “entire catalog,” including guidelines, educational materials, textbooks and newsletter articles, Wright said.
Dr. Nia Heard-Garris, head of an academy group on minority health and equity and a pediatrician at Chicago’s Lurie Children’s Hospital, noted that the new policy includes a brief history “of how some of our frequently used clinical aids have come to be — via pseudoscience and racism.”
Whatever the intent, these aids have harmed patients, she said.
“This violates our oath as physicians — to do no harm — and as such should not be used,″ Heard-Garris said.
The academy is urging other medical institutions and specialty groups to take a similar approach in working to eliminate racism in medicine.
“We can’t just plug up one leak in a pipe full of holes and expect it to be remedied,” said Heard-Garris. “This statement shines a light for pediatricians and other healthcare providers to find and patch those holes.”
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Science is now being destroyed for wokeness.
Feelings don’t care about your facts.
WTF?
US pediatricians’ group moves to abandon race-based guidance
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We’re entering a new dark age where ideology of the moment outflanks scientific observation.
“Dr. Nia Heard-Garris, head of an academy group on minority health and equity...at Chicago’s Lurie Children’s Hospital”
For those who wonder why medical care is so expensive.
If black people get less of the sunshine vitamins because of black skin, then black people should be advised to take sunshine vitamins especially during the winter to boost their sunshine vitamin inventory. To ignore a need is neglecting a person.
“This violates our oath as physicians — to do no harm — and as such should not be used,″
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That horse has left the barn already...
Medicine is adopting social engineering over true science. People of ALL races will suffer because of it.
Seek the truth and the truth shall set you free. Actively deny the truth and you will surely die.
Let individual doctors be doctors.
Guidelines and protocols = ideological government meddling for social engineering purposes
Scientifically speaking, there is no such thing as race.
So they’re going to start testing offspring of white supremacists for sickle cell anemia?
“Race based” is being treated by these wokies and “racist”. What a load of horseshite.
Race is tied to genetics — unless you fake it via skin treatments like some MSM tools do.
Disease is tied to genetics. To ignore genetics in regards treatment is racist.
It is like classifying a death as covid related when it is obvious that the corpse has numerous fatal gunshot wounds. Yeah, he might have had covid — but his death is ‘cause of all that blood, yah dummy.
These are perverts saying this kind of crappola. Racist perves. Condemn them at every opportunity.
When Obamacare reared its ugly head, Hubby was forced to pay for insurance covering his maternity costs. So maybe maybe we’ve been on this gender slippery slope for over a decade.
I would like to hear what Dr. Ben Carson has to say about this.
Scientifically speaking - yes there is.
I’m not talking color - I’m talking distinct genetic lineages just as we do with every other breed of animal on the planet.
But woke people like to claim that that doesn’t matter - nor does sexuality.
Is every baby now going to be tested for sickle cell anemia and Tay-Sach’s disease?
Outdated how? Is this because medical research has determined that a certain race-based protocol was erroneous or because it is outdated because it is simply “racist?”
More people are going to avoid doctors and hospitals.. More so than the last two years.
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