Medicine, a field of science, should be devoid of political bias. It should be rooted in scientific fact and biological reality (you know, like saying there are only two genders).
Unfortunately, the DEI woke mind virus (as Elon Musk calls it) is not easily eradicated. It continually seeks new victims to infect and destroy.
I have written about DEI in health care many times, sounding the alarm because it is that important. As a healthcare professional, I cannot emphasize enough how dangerous it is for healthcare to adopt anything to do with DEI.
In March, I told you how doctors -- seeking to remove race from kidney function -- messed up a transplant list. Why? Because Blacks have a different glomerular filtration rate (GFR) that measures how efficiently the kidneys are removing creatinine (a waste byproduct of muscle breakdown) from the body. Black patients can have a normal, healthy creatinine level that is up to six times higher than a White person. Removing race means that Black patients with functioning kidneys could be classified as having end-stage renal disease while White patients with failing kidneys are not.
In short, it kills.
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But the Left have decided that the scientific realities of medicine are racist and must be reworked through 'social justice' frameworks:
NEW: The top neuropsychology organizations in North America may soon adopt training guidelines that call on clinicians to use "social justice frameworks," fight "systemic oppression," and pursue "equitable and just scientific knowledge."
— Aaron Sibarium (@aaronsibarium) December 9, 2024
Board certification is on the line.🧵 pic.twitter.com/q2tQ1QNmms
Aaron's thread is long, but worth a read.
Here's the story from Free Beacon:
It was clear from the start that those guidelines would have an ideological bent. A 'values statement' for the working group, dubbed the Minnesota Conference, said that neuropsychology was 'inherently biased in the western perspective' and called on delegates to 'center social justice' by rejecting 'structures' and 'values' that 'privileged certain ways of knowing.'
The field 'requires paradigmatic changes,' the delegates said. 'We seek to expand the framework for … competency-based training to be infused with a health justice and equity framework.'
That’s exactly what they did. When the Minnesota Conference released a final version of its guidelines on Nov. 26, the document called for 'equity, justice, and inclusion' to be incorporated into every aspect of the field, from the conduct of scientific investigations to the application of research findings.
Neuropsychology deals with brain injuries -- including concussions -- and those brain injuries do not care about the race or socioeconomic background of patients.
But the woke Leftists infesting healthcare do.
And that's scary.
Medical science knows a lot about the brain and yet very little about the brain. Neuropsychology is a complex field precisely because our brains -- and how they work, are damaged, and heal -- are complex. The brain controls all of our functions, including our ability to learn and even our personalities. Persons who suffered traumatic brain injuries often have personality changes.
Helping to heal and restore brain function is vital, important work.
But the Left doesn't care. Their political goals come before restoring brain health and function.
What does 'equity' in neuropsych education and care look like? Does it mean these organizations will, like at UCLA, push to admit unqualified and incompetent students to med school? There are students who can't identify basic anatomy -- like the human aorta, which is kinda important to living -- or run basic tests for fatal illnesses like sepsis. Will this open the door for students who can't grasp how the brain functions to work with neuro patients, even if it puts their lives at risk?
Or does it mean -- as the kidney example above -- biological differences in brain function will be ignored for an 'equitable' model that ends up harming patients? Or that certain racial groups get less effective treatment (or no treatment at all?). Remember: the Left gleefully argued during COVID unvaccinated patients should be denied healthcare. They're cheering the murder of billionaires and CEOs.
Don't fool yourself: if you think they won't argue your grandma shouldn't get Alzheimer's meds because she's a white woman, you're mistaken. They've already telegraphed their intentions.
It's painfully clear the Left doesn't care about your safety, health, or life. They will make all of those things take a backseat to their ideology. If you die because your doctor was a DEI med school admission, they'll not lose a wink of sleep because your death in service of their agenda is -- to them -- a moral victory.
You may be dead, but at least they feel good about themselves.
What will it take to end this? I fear we have to take a look at the trans movement for our answer: it will take the harming and deaths of patients -- followed by hefty malpractice lawsuits -- to stop this.
Only when these organizations are financially damaged, some beyond repair, will they learn that the practice of medicine cannot be usurped by woke garbage.
