Most Americans don't care who you are or what you look like; they care whether or not you can do the job. Their first questions are, do you know what you're doing? Are you competent? Not really too much to ask. Since President Donald Trump was elected, he has made it a top priority to rid America of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). There have been great strides made in some areas. But in others, the practice of discriminating against people based on what they look like, to rid the practice of discriminating against people based on what they look like, is firmly entrenched, and it could potentially be very dangerous.
NEW: Spotted at Harvard Medical School:
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This is America’s top med school — under fire for prioritizing ideology over education pic.twitter.com/iNtwsaviIZ
Dr. Stanley Goldfarb is the Chairman of Do No Harm. It is made up of a group of medical professionals whose goal is to keep identity politics out of the medical profession. He has written a new book called "Doing Great Harm? How DEI and Identity Politics Are Infecting American Healthcare - and How We Are Fighting Back." It details how the medical profession, including medical schools in the U.S., continues to be overrun with woke DEI ideology. Goldfarb says that this is happening "at the expense of Americans’ health," and he wrote the book because “the public deserves to hear these things.”
Goldfarb points out that one of the most potentially dangerous things going on at medical schools is the lowering of admission standards for non-white students. It might get them into med school, but the outcome could be extremely hazardous for their future patients. He goes on to explain:
“We know that minorities are being admitted to medical school is much lower levels of qualification some of them, some of them are perfectly great, but some of them have much less fewer accomplishments, for example, much lower scores on achievement tests like the MCAT exam, and much lower grades and not going to competitive colleges. And we show in the book how when, they’ve been assessed further on in their careers, in residency, and even beyond this academic, lack of academic achievement plays out in less good health care.”
The dangers of medical schools embracing wokeness are not new. In 2023, around 40 medical schools chose to ditch the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) for, you guessed it, diversity. But an even more disturbing trend is that Do No Harm found in March of this year that medical schools as a whole were trending more woke, as 77 percent of their mission statements included some sort of DEI language.
A new report, titled "Woke hospitals: Embracing Political Priorities Ahead of Patient Care," was released by Consumers’ Research on Tuesday and took aim at five hospital systems across the country:
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And once those med students get into the classroom, it's not all biology, anatomy, and physiology. Students are required to take some sort of DEI "training," which also includes "implicit bias" and "anti-racism" ideology. DEI training is part of a broader system that is specifically designed to hire, advance, and promote more minority students and staff. Goldfarb bluntly stated these requirements,
“If, every week, they have to spend hours on social issues and go to classes that are completely devoted to these issues, that’s time that they can’t learn the things that really matter in caring for patients."
Goldfarb also says that Medical Associations are not helping. This is troubling because the organizations are largely responsible for continuing education for doctors once their formal education is over. These same organizations also craft recommendations on such things as transgender procedures for minors and abortion. As someone who spent 30 years in healthcare, every year I saw policies that leaned further left. It seemed as if the COVID pandemic was the one thing that really opened the woke floodgates.
As the U.S. population ages, there will be a greater need for doctors. Which class do you want your future doctors to have better grades in, anatomy and physiology, or DEI?
“Rebranding DEI as ‘health equity’ or other such terms is a clear effort to skirt state law in the name of woke ideology. Med schools should drop their DEI agenda. Instead, they should focus on merit as the basis for recruitment and admission decisions, and lawmakers should… pic.twitter.com/Mi4sTSlems
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Med schools should drop their DEI agenda. Instead, they should focus on merit as the basis for recruitment and admission decisions, and lawmakers should target schools that fail to comply with state law.” - @one1iron, Chairman of @donoharm
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