An ideological ‘purge’ is Underway in American Medicine
(bariweiss.substack.com)
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If only it were so localized.
James Lindsay has been talking about this cancer spreading to every discipline for a while now.
Whites and Asians especially need to take their health seriously since we know we are hated the most by "progressives".
I think this comment by Axel Hume at the bottom highlights a big aspect of this growing problem:
Hume states that the writer of this piece undercuts her argument when she says that these dissenting doctors are not secret bigots but progressives who believe that there are inequities in medicine that need to addressed.
The author should not be paying service to the woke's core tenets of the existence of inequity.
Someone's identity should not matter in order to complain about woke excesses.
Even this author capitulating to the woke when making complaints against them is a huge problem.
At least you know if your doctor is White or Asian he's probably really good because he had to work extra hard against affirmative action.
I personally only see Asian male or White male doctors for this very reason.
An affirmative action correction is in order everywhere.
Despite getting race-based preferences in every aspect of life, a lot of chip-on-their-shoulder blacks make some startling claims. No, you didn't work twice as hard to get half as far. You were advantaged every step of the way.
Genuflection to this nonsense is very common even among those who are trying to fight against it.
If blacks started living healthier, married before they had kids, there was not a grossly disproportionate rate of shootings in this demographic, I am pretty sure that health outcomes would improve without addressing all these supposed 'inequities in medicine'.
It doesn't. If you're white and you oppose the cultists, you're dismissed for being white. If you're black and you oppose the cultists, you're dismissed for disagreeing with them. If you're white and agree with them, then you're fine too.
Just one more reason it's important to take your health seriously.
You really don't want to fall into the hands of these imbeciles. Some of these 'doctors' actually admit to asking patients for pronouns. Imagine being helpless and at the mercy of a disgusting creep like that.
They ask pronouns because HR demands it of them. Last few exams and visits were like this. When asked point blank I straight up told them that I did not care, and I don't think the person attending to me did either.
Primary care in the US has been co-opted by corporations and interest groups inserting themselves between you and your doctor without much benefit for either of you. A lot of it is less about wokeness, and more about billing.
No matter the actual purpose of your visit, corporations and governments have shoehorned themselves into the exam room by forcing the doctor to go over checklists like promoting weight loss or screening for guns in the home or intimate partner violence.
The doctor has to jump through a lot of these hoops to try to get paid a few more crumbs by insurers or in some cases they get docked pay for not screening for the cause celebre du jour.
This is the problem with centralized licensing authorities. (and centralization in general) More targets for the commies to attack and infiltrate.
There should be many independent medical schools with varying ideologies and no need for approval by a government agency.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb's evergreen essay 'The Most Intolerant Wins' is relevant here. It takes a very small proportion to take over an institution. So the larger an organization is, the more likely it is that this critical threshold of 3% is reached.
I think you grossly overestimate the extent to which you can vet people prior to hiring.
That will only hurt the company. If you limit your pool of 'talent' to 9% of the population, you're simply not going to be able to fill the vacancies. And justice will run its course.
Helping the company’s bottom line is not their agenda. Raiding corporate assets to fill the pockets of their allies is their agenda.
This shit was even starting at the company my wife works at, which is a Midwestern trucking company. Didn’t manifest until the first of the millennials got into director positions and jr. VP’s.
Only thing that saved the company was the fact my wife was in employment law litigation before going corporate and all their hiring policies et. al. Had to go through her and she was able to stonewall them as the board listened to my wife over the HR director. So much so that the director of HR left to go elsewhere. She was replaced by a middle aged man now heading up HR.
That may well be true of HR, but that means that they destroy every company that they join. So that is good at least.
A plague of locusts.
While it's good that this is getting attention, it's worth noting that the writer is also a regressive - citing black childbirth deaths that have long known to be bunk, at least as a product of their 'racism' obsession. It's a result of behavior.
Latinos and Asians have fewer deaths than whites. I guess these morons think that doctors discriminate against white mothers. I'm sure they'd like to see that.
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“the people leading the woke effort have a deeply unsophisticated understanding of how change occurs in this country. It’s dangerous. I’m fearful there’s going to be a counter-reaction that's going to be huge and vicious and ugly.”
Indeed. The author is right about this. Once you cross that line you are talking civil war/tribalism.
Me when I'm buying into woke theory while criticizing it.
Germs bad!
Interesting. Is this where things are headed? Are we going back to segregation?
This reminds me of the marijuana legalization in Washington and Oregon. We were promised all this excess money to schools and roads, and none of it has arrived. Then we were told it would be regulated. I can get a prescription or go out and buy it without really trying. If I ask a doctor for aspirin, I have more paperwork and carefulness to deal with than this. If I am in the hospital, the doctor will sooner prescribe mary jane than an aspirin because of all of the paperwork to be done.
We can also see this with mental health disease and actual physical needs. I have a friend who has Ehrler danlos syndrome. She could look behind herself like an owl. The doctors continued to think she had some mental disorder, and disregarded all of the xrays and scans that showed something was wrong with her spine. It is easier to prescribe mental disease medications than help someone with a physical ailment. I've gone with her to the doctor, and I have heard them yell at her, or say it was all in her head. It is in her head, right about the point between her skull and her spine.
We have doctors filling out the easy paperwork, prescribing wrong medicines, and then yelling at people who say it isn't what they say. Add this wokeness and the idea of Do No Harm is becoming a bit shady.
I couldn't find recent numbers, but the province of Ontario somehow lost 42 million selling legal weed in 2018-2019.
These dimwits can't even sell drugs competently.
Yeah, it's the same everywhere I've checked. It's like they smoked it or something.