Donald Trump has done a good job of starting to dismantle the insidious, racist, and dangerous DEI movement at the federal level. His Executive Order has targeted DEI in federal government as well as in college admissions, but there is a glaring omission from his EO, and one that needs to be addressed sooner rather than later: DEI in healthcare.
This is something I've written about extensively here at Twitchy, and with good reason: DEI in healthcare will damage patient outcomes if not outright kill people.
Neuropsychology organizations recently entered the DEI arena with a push to force clinicians to adopt 'social justice frameworks' when treating patients with things like traumatic brain injuries (TBI). Just to set the record straight, TBIs do not care about racism, or anti-racism, or intersectionality. They can be life-altering conditions that should be treated appropriately without regard for 'social justice frameworks.'
Woke policies in medical schools lead to students being unable to run tests that diagnose serious conditions like sepsis (which turns fatal quickly) and incapable of recognizing basic anatomy during surgery, like the aorta (the biggest artery in the human body). Woke policies in medical organizations drives doctors to ignore real, and vital, racial differences in kidney function -- which then messes up the kidney transplant list.
Brown University Medical School now joins the fray, putting 'DEI' above clinical skills in promotion criteria for faculty:
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Here's more from the Free Beacon:
Doctors who reviewed the criteria were alarmed, saying they reflect an unusually frank admission that merit is taking a back seat to DEI.
'This is as stark as it gets,' said Bob Cirincione, an orthopedic surgeon in Hagerstown, Maryland. The criteria 'say what DEI in medical schools is all about. And it’s not about clinical performance.'
Hector Chapa, a clinical professor at Texas A&M College of Medicine, said it was 'difficult to comprehend' why clinical skills get less weight than DEI. 'That is heartbreaking,' Chapa told the Washington Free Beacon. 'Clinical skills are of paramount importance and should be considered major criteria for any promotion.'
The criteria, which were last updated in 2023, indicate that DEI gets more weight than clinical skills for positions focused on research and classroom teaching. It gets the same weight as 'patient care' for doctors who train students in clinical settings.
The only criteria for faculty promotion -- the only criteria -- should be clinical performance and all that goes with it, including medical knowledge and the ability to identify and diagnose illnesses and various diseases.
Because we trust faculty to pass on their knowledge to their students. You know, the students who go on to become our doctors. If the faculty is more concerned with social justice than sepsis, bad things happen.
DEI in most levels of government is wrong and racist. However, with some notable exceptions, like the military and the FAA, it's discriminatory and not dangerous.
DEI in health care will kill people.
And the Left doesn't care.
In their world, the most important thing is their social justice agenda. It doesn't matter if a doctor can perform surgery competently so long as they/them are the 'correct' race/gender/sexual orientation. If you die in the process, it's a sacrifice they are willing to make.
But it's not enough to enact these policies. Oh, no. The Left is not only tying DEI requirements to criteria for faculty promotion, but to certification (and re-certification) as mentioned in the story about the neuropsychology organization mentioned above. At UC Davis, applicants for breast cancer surgery positions don't have to demonstrate their teaching or research chops, but they do have to submit a DEI statement. They want DEI to be an integral part of healthcare employment. This will exclude, by design, the cream of the crop.
So, while they scream about Donald Trump undoing their DEI nonsense via EO, remember that they have no qualms about codifying DEI into healthcare. This must be ended and prohibited in every medical school and healthcare organization, without exception.
If you're still unsure about whether or not Donald Trump should continue his pushback against DEI, ask yourself this:
Who do you want treating your wife, mother, sister, or daughter if they're diagnosed with breast cancer? Who do you want performing surgery on a loved one in need of a repair of an abdominal aortic aneurysm? A competent doctor who spent years teaching and researching diseases and surgical techniques, or a DEI hire who reads Robin DiAngelo but doesn't know the aorta from the anus?
I know who I'd want.
