You or a loved one is lying helpless in the Intensive Care Unit of your local hospital. You or they are unable to speak and have numerous IV lines inserted everywhere. Doctors, nurses, and other various healthcare professionals are in and out of the room, doing what they are trained to do, which is, you assume, to save lives. As someone who spent over 30 years in the healthcare industry, which, unfortunately, is what it has become, I watched it become more and more politically correct and more woke. But wokeness has been taken to a new level, and it probably has nothing to do with qualities you might be looking for in a healthcare professional, more specifically, a nurse. 

By supporting DEI initiatives and “gender affirming care” for children, the American Nurses Association shows that it speaks more for radical activists than for nurses.https://t.co/JNRs1r7cm7

— Do No Harm (@donoharm) June 9, 2023

Many professions, including those in healthcare, require those in that profession to maintain a certain number of continuing education (CE) credit hours per year. Those hours can be earned by completing online modules through a profession-related website, attending seminars, webinars, and other forms of education related to that profession. The American Nurses Association (ANA) has decided that "education" should be taken one step further. Nurses can now earn up to 12 hours of CE by listening to podcasts that discuss not the latest medications or new and efficient ways to chart their patients' conditions, but instead, promote "activism" and "rooting out racism." So, in addition to all of the duties that overworked nurses now have, social justice has been added to the list.

The podcasts in question, called "See You Now," come in "bundles" of three episodes and are sponsored by healthcare giant Johnson & Johnson. One episode's title is "Nurses Inspiring Nurses," which seems innocent enough. Don't people in the same profession want to lift one another up and inspire each other? However, Nurses inspiring each other is apparently the hook. Other titles include "Advocacy to Activism" and "Rooting Out Racism." Other episodes of the podcast address "affirming care," presumably referring to transgender patients.

Laura Morgan is a Program Manager for an organization called "Do No Harm." The group is made up of healthcare professionals, policymakers, and even patients, whose goal is to "protect healthcare from a radical, divisive, and discriminatory ideology. We believe in making healthcare better for all – not undermining it in pursuit of a political agenda." Morgan is also a member of the ANA and denounced the use of the podcast for CE purposes, saying:

“Here we are with more of the same propaganda from the ANA, but this time they are the beneficiaries of funding from a major healthcare corporation. See You Now is touted as an ‘innovation podcast;’ but what is innovative about pushing politicized ideologies? The ANA uses the podcast to continue peddling its self-flagellating Racial Reckoning Statement, in which they say their actions ‘have caused harm and perpetuated systemic racism.’”

GenZ are becoming woke nurses and doctors! Let that sink in..👨🏾‍🏭

— 🇺🇸AmericaWeTrust🇺🇸 (@america_trust) August 20, 2023

Morgan wasn't done with the ANA just yet. She continued:

“The ANA is free to say what it wants to about itself; but count me out of its attempts to impose this nonsense onto the rest of the profession. While it began with a valid call for ideas from nurses to address complex issues that affect healthcare, See You Now soon deteriorated into a celebration of ‘the latest thing’ in the social justice arena. There is no professional development value to this podcast.”

Johnson & Johnson is no stranger to the woke Olympics. In 2020, Johnson & Johnson committed $10 million over three years “to fighting racism and injustice in America.” But it is not just big healthcare corporations like Johnson & Johnson; as stated earlier, it is the American healthcare system overall. In 2022, Stanley Goldfarb, a former associate dean of curriculum at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and Chairman of Do No Harm, was sounding the alarm of woke ideology permeating the medical profession. As proof of this, he cited over 2,700 papers on "racism and medicine" in The National Library of Medicine database. Goldfarb also cited medical schools, which are not teaching students medicine but teaching social activism. He asserted that unsubstantiated claims of racism were leading doctors into burnout and early retirement, which put the very communities that the healthcare system claimed it wanted to help at risk. 

Is it a nurse's job to administer care based on woke ideology? No, it is his or her job to care for me or a loved one as a patient, period. Dr. Goldfarb stated that "healthcare is close to a tipping point." If the healthcare system has reached the point where it is more concerned with the patient's outside than the inside, it seems we may have reached that point.

Cancel culture, meet healthcare. Woke culture and all of it’s participants that don’t speak out against this are complicit in committing an act called negligent homicide. Innocent people are allowed to die because they refuse to participate in an evil ideology. pic.twitter.com/Xbdz6wkT5C

— James T Hagen, PhD (@JTylerHagen) June 20, 2022