Posted on 07/29/2023 9:25:38 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
This is one issue that I’ve been wrestling with here for several years now. For the longest time, Americans grew used to placing their trust in the medical profession. When you ran into a health problem, you went to see a doctor or perhaps get checked in at a hospital. While not all care is equal, actual doctors were assumed to know a lot more than the layman and were bound by a professional code of ethics to “do the right thing” and to “first do no harm.” They were far more trusted than politicians and for good reason. But lately, things have changed. We’re seeing doctors increasingly engage in actions and policies that are clearly unscientific and in some cases patently dangerous. This is most obvious in the field of “gender-affirming care,” but it also cropped up during the response to the COVID pandemic. So how did things reach this point? At National Review, Mark Antonio Wright may have struck on at least part of the answer. The curriculum at many medical schools has been quietly changing and adopting new policies that are drawn straight from the political leftist playbook rather than the results of verifiable medical studies. Harvard Medical School is cited as one prominent example, but there are many others.
“Medical-school curricula have become suffused with leftism.” Well, that’s a serious charge — and it should be arresting to anyone who has ever needed to visit a doc — but as Jack Butler writes in the cover story for the new issue of National Review magazine, this is not simply the case of an overzealous Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion bureaucrat or two.
Radical politics has infected American medicine.
The examples are numerous. At Harvard’s Medical School, there’s a course titled “Caring for Patients with Diverse Sexual Orientations, Gender Identities, and Sex Development” that promises “clinical exposure and education will focus on serving gender and sexual minority people across the lifespan, from infants to older adults.” And Harvard is not alone.
You should be highly alarmed to learn that Harvard Medical School is promising a curriculum that will “serve gender minority people from infants to older adults.” They are apparently graduating doctors who have been led to believe that there are “gender-diverse infants” out there.
More damning examples are offered. At Indiana University Medical School, first-year students are told that sex and gender “fall along a continuum, rather than being binary constructs.” They are being told this in defiance of thousands of years of medical scientific research and the obvious evidence that surrounds us all. The University of California, San Diego medical school introduced coursework referencing George Floyd and other suspects who were killed during encounters with police, committing to creating “a curriculum which addresses the part we play in righting these systemic injustices.”
What does George Floyd have to do with medical work unless you happen to be studying the treatment of blunt-force trauma to the throat? In 2021, the AMA released “An Organizational Strategic Plan to Embed Racial Justice and Advance Health Equity.” And we have already seen both the AMA and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) endorse treatments in “gender care” that have no historical basis in science, including the use of drugs that have never been approved or even clinically tested for those purposes.
That’s how we apparently got to this point. It starts in medical school and becomes amplified by the largest medical associations. And the trans surgery industry that is already worth billions of dollars per year and is growing quickly is happily going along for the ride. Meanwhile, one European country after another is banning these procedures, at least for children, and launching clinical studies to find out what’s going on.
Perhaps the greatest challenge before us is not simply identifying the problem, which seems very obvious when you look at the context I’m describing here. The actual issue involves what can be done about it if anything. These large medical organizations like the AMA and the AAP exist outside the direct oversight of the government. And medical schools are also barely regulated at all in terms of defining their curricula. For a long time, that situation made sense, particularly given the public’s historical relationship with the medical industry as I described at the top. After all, who do you want to set the controls of medical science and establish best practices? Actual doctors or a bunch of Washington bureaucrats?
But now we’re dealing with something new and it’s beyond alarming. The scientists we previously trusted are increasingly abandoning science and replacing it with leftist ideological dictates. But we never installed any guardrails on this system because it didn’t seem as if we would need them. The only way to reign them in would be some entirely new type of government oversight agency, but that would be placed in the hands of the aforementioned elected bureaucrats. Given the current crop in the swamp at the moment, they could conceivably make matters even worse rather than better. Forcing all of the doctors and the member of the AMA and AAP to sit down and watch What is a Woman might be a good first step, but they would probably just ignore it. I would like to suggest a more fiscally conservative solution and advise everyone to “vote with their feet” and stop using the services of doctors who support these practices. But it’s hard enough for many people to find any competent medical care as it is. I’m sorry to say it, but I don’t see a quick, viable solution. And yet one is very badly needed.
Someone is just realizing this??????
Two Words: SOCIALIZED MEDICINE
Are you an Illinois NAZI?
LOL !
If you take too many redpills, you end up on the run from Mossad.
I’m scared to go back to nursing school. I know it’s at least as bad.
One leftist influence which introduced Marxism into the medical field was the creation in the late 60s or early 70s of the Communist Party front, the Medical Committee for Huamn Rights, led by identified CP member Dr. Quentin Young and a few other reds in the medical profession.
He took the Fifth when asked about about his being identified as a CP member by another congressional witness who knew him in it.
By the way, Young was a close friend of someone called Barack Obama in their Chicago ‘hood’. He was also reportedly present at the meeting at Weathermen leaders Bill Ayres and Bernadine Dohrn when Barack was chosen to run for Chicago politics.
Another far-left medical organization created during the 1980s is Physicians For Social Responsibility, which featured some of the Hanoi Lobby doctors re Agent Orange and other false claims about so-called chemical warfare in the Vietnam war, and then regarding nuclear arms but mainly directed at the U.S.
There was a newer leftist medical group created in the 90s from remnants of the MCHR, led by Quentin Young friends/followers but I don’t recall their name right now. However, one of its leadership names was Himmelfarb, perhaps David. It might be found by doing a name search on the website www.keywiki.org. The same for the other two groups.
bkmk
Whoops!
The Floyd autopsy found ZERO evidence of trauma to Floyd's mouth, nose, tongue, throat, trachea, and neck.
Floyd was killed by an overdose of fentanyl which fatally suppressed his breathing.
Floyd was asked by Police if he had taken any drugs.
Floyd lied and said no.
If Floyd had told the truth to Police about swallowing fentanyl, he would not have died.
I see more indians as doctors in the US.
As the entering class of 2020, we start our medical journey amidst the COVID-19 pandemic and a national civil rights movement reinvigorated by the killings of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd and Ahmaud Arbery. We honor the 700,000+ lives lost to COVID-19, despite the sacrifices of health care workers.
We recognize the fundamental failings of our health care and political systems in serving vulnerable communities. This oath is the first step in our enduring commitment to repairing the injustices against those historically ignored and abused in medicine: Black patients, Indigenous patients, Patients of Color and all marginalized populations who have received substandard care as a result of their identity and limited resources.
Acknowledging the privilege and responsibility that come with being a physician, I take this oath as a call to action to fulfill my duty to patients, to the medical profession and to society.
Thereby, I pledge as a physician and lifelong student of medicine:
I will support and collaborate with my colleagues across disciplines and professions, while respecting the patient’s vital role on the health care team.
I will honor my physical, mental and emotional health so as to not lessen the quality of care I provide.
I will carry on the legacy of my predecessors by mentoring the next generation of diverse physicians.
I will recognize the pivotal role of ethical research in the advancement of medicine and commit myself to endless scholarship with the ultimate goal of improving patient care.
I will care for my patients’ holistic well-being, not solely their pathology. With empathy, compassion and humility, I will prioritize understanding each patient’s narrative, background and experiences while protecting privacy and autonomy.
I will champion diversity in both medicine and society, and promote an inclusive environment by respecting the perspectives of others and relentlessly seeking to identify and eliminate my personal biases.
I will be an ally to those of low socioeconomic status, the BIPOC community, the LGBTQIA+ community, womxn/women, differently-abled individuals and other underserved groups in order to dismantle the systemic racism and prejudice that medical professionals and society have perpetuated.
I will educate myself on social determinants of health in order to use my voice as a physician to advocate for a more equitable health care system from the local to the global level.
I will restore trust between the health care community and the population in which I serve by holding myself and others accountable, and by combating misinformation in order to improve health literacy.
In making this oath, I embrace the ever-changing responsibilities of being a physician and pledge to uphold the integrity of the profession in the clinic and beyond.
Stuff that crap, we don’t want to see it here.
“American Medical schools have become infected by radical leftism”
America has become infected by radical leftism
There, fixed it
If your doctor does not have a “white lives matter” poster on the wall next to their diplomas do not walk out of their office.
Run!
“while protecting privacy and autonomy”
= while forwarding their jab history to the People’s Tribunal.
The rule of opposites is how to decode this stuff.
Wow, I want to throw up. Can you tell me if medical schools post their oath publicly, so one can see it before applying to said vomitorium?
“by combating misinformation in order to improve health literacy”
= supporting censorship and brainwashing to crush dissent.
bttt
Additionally, Floyd did NOT die in the street. He died nearly 9 hours later in the ICU.
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