It keeps getting worse. Here’s Jim Thompson at Red State on “Medical Schools: The New Church of Woke”:
The effort to turn medical schools into expensive schools of sociology started before 2022. In 2019, the effort for equity and inclusion was being added, ad hoc, to how professors taught medical classes. Nothing grips the mind like informing medical students that systemic racism is to blame for obesity and other medical conditions inherent with a person’s personal and unhealthy choices.
The push to blame everything on
racism hit overdrive in 2020, when George Floyd, an addict loaded on fatal
doses of illegal drugs, died. Medical schools went on strike. Students left
their classrooms and headed to “church” — outdoors, wearing masks and kneeling
with “Black Lives Matter” signs. It’s quickly becoming a traditional
denomination for the left: Photos of medical students kneeling and heads bowed
for protesting too much whiteness in white coats.
Now, there is a concerted effort to
take up the time of medical students with religious indoctrination – a
catechism of systemic racism, anti-racism, equity, diversity and inclusion.
The Association of American Medical
Colleges (AAMC) has released its official Diversity,
Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Competencies for medical students to commit to
memory and practice. No longer is it good enough to be a good doctor; now,
before a student, then resident medical doctor, can ply their trade, they must
be full, card-carrying members of a cult.
. . .
The medical profession has already given itself a black eye
for following the COVID protocols required by the CDC and NIH. It’s getting worse. Read the rest at RedState here.
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