Woke Medical Organizations Are Hazardous to Your Health

If physicians are trained to combat ‘systemic racism,’ their ability to treat disease will suffer

By Heather Mac Donald. Excerpts:

"Public and private research funding is being redirected from basic science to political projects aimed at “dismantling white supremacy” in medicine."

"raced the idea that medicine is shot through with racism and inequity. The AMA’s 2021 Organizational Strategic Plan to Embed Racial Justice and Advance Health Equity is a thicket of social-justice nostrums"

"Medical and scientific leaders, in the name of opposing racism, are apologizing for their own race. In June 2020, the journal Nature identified itself as one of the “white institutions that is [sic] responsible for bias in research and scholarship.”"

"The AMA strategic plan calls for the “just representation of Black, Indigenous and Latinx people in medical school admissions as well as . . . leadership ranks.” The lack of “just representation,” according to the AMA, is the result of deliberate “exclusion,” which will end only when “we . . . prioritize and integrate the voices and ideas of people and communities experiencing great injustice and historically excluded, exploited, and deprived of needed resources such as people of color, women, people with disabilities, LGBTQ+, and those in rural and urban communities alike.”

At the end of their second year of medical school, students take step one of the U.S. Medical Licensing Exam"  

"some students complain that the pressure to score well inhibits them from “antiracism” advocacy."

"a fourth-year Yale medical student . . . ran a podcast about health disparities. All that political work was made possible by Yale’s pass-fail grading system for classes, which meant that he didn’t feel compelled to put studying ahead of diversity concerns."

"Since January, the test has been graded on a pass-fail basis."