Most of us love something that’s not healthy for us. For me, it’s good food and good bourbon. For others, it’s something else.
However, I’ve spent much of the last year working to live a healthier life. I want to live a good long time, and that means not indulging as much as I’d like. And by “healthier life,” I’m envisioning one that doesn’t require a doctor very often.
Some people don’t want to bother, which is fine. That’s their call. I just think that with what a new study just learned, they might want to rethink that one.
Healthcare watchdog group Do No Harm has released a report exposing left-wing activism's takeover of medical academia, specifically how "medical schools are short-changing rigorous training in science for the political indoctrination of future doctors."
The 14-page report, titled "Activism Instead of Anatomy: The Sorry State of Medical School Curricula," systematically examined the course catalogs of 20 top-rated medical schools across the country to identify instances of radical political objectives embedded in the teachings as opposed to typical medical knowledge.
This research was conducted by searching for keywords that are emblematic of the DEI agenda, such as "diversity," "racism," and "identity," and comparing them to the appearances of traditional terminology used in medical education like "physiology," "anatomy," and "Hippocratic."
Do No Harm found that the frequency of the DEI jargon far exceeded the usage of scholarly, scientific terms, signifying that medical school courses focus more on ideological issues than they do on foundational ones.
"Diversity" appeared more frequently than "chemistry." Obesity, one of the country's most serious health challenges, was mentioned less often than every one of the DEI buzzwords, including "justice." The word "equity" cropped up more than three times as often as "obesity."
In other words, doctors are being taught to be social justice advocates rather than, you know, doctors.
I don’t think I need to spell out how this is a massive problem. What it’s not, though, is new. I’ve had reports for some time about how woke medical schools were becoming. I’ve touched on a lot of the problems in healthcare as well, including at medical schools.
This is just another case of showing what we already knew to be the case.
While we want physicians to be caring people who look to improve the lives of their patients, the reality is that this talk of “diversity” and “equity” isn’t going to benefit everyone. It’s about not benefitting everyone, only some.
And the fact that they’re clearly doing this rather than focusing on actual medicine is a terrifying thought because it means within a generation, most of our doctors won’t be people who actually learned how to treat patients.
Maybe they’ll pick this up in internship and residency—we can pray, at least—but if they don’t, there’s only one potential result: Dead patients because their doctor was an activist, not a medical professional.
Throughout our nation, though, these individuals—I won’t call them people—have infested and infected all of our institutions. They seek to do nothing more than present this woke mind virus as the natural state of being, hoping to pass along their ideology like a plague, rather than do the very thing they’re supposed to be doing.
This goes along with what I wrote yesterday. None of our institutions are worthy of trust. None of them are doing anything to suggest they’re dedicated to their stated mission.
Medical schools are clearly in the same camp, another institution that has decided it needs to make the world a better place for some and is willing to watch people die in order to achieve that.
Why else resist making merit the only or primary criterion for entering medical school? Why else insist that patients should be viewed as groups based on superficial features like skin color?
They know that white people get sick and that there are people who aren’t cut out to be doctors for a variety of reasons. Why push this if the goal is really to teach people to save lives?
If there’s a better advertisement out there for healthy living so you won’t need a doctor as much, I don’t know what it would look like.
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No matter how much you take care of yourself eventually your expiration date arrives. I just pray that mine doesn't involve a hospital.
You want to be frightened? Approximately 10 years ago, an Hispanic (affirmative action) medical student, who was apparently passed in required courses he should have failed, was hired as a surgical resident at a Miami university hospital. On his first solo surgery, he identified a women's kidney as a tumor and removed it. The story, for obvious reasons, was dropped like a hot potato and I never found out what happened with the resolution of the case, but I can't imagine anyone was fired or any changes were made in the university's affirmative action educational programs. We must end these identity politics educational and workplace programs. It's unfair to the students who work their tails off to be accepted to good schools only to be passed over for someone who has the correct melanin content, it's unfair to the students accepted for identity politics, to put them in positions for which they're unprepared and which often inevitably leads to failure and it's *truly* unfair to those who must see these poorly educated professionals only to be victimized by them in some of the most vulnerable moments of their lives.