Bad news for the future of medicine and the future of human life. While radical politics had consumed the ‘soft sciences’ and most impractical academic fields, the practical ones, especially the sciences, were generally intact. In the last decade, all of academia has crumbled.
Quotas are everywhere and woke mandates have displaced academic ones.
That means people will die. Because we’ll have doctors who got there by talking about their victimhood, but are not qualified to do anything more than posture and virtue signal about their pain.
Forty-four percent of medical schools have tenure and promotion policies that reward scholarship on “diversity, inclusion, and equity.” Seventy percent make students take a course on “diversity, inclusion, or cultural competence.” And 79 percent require that all hiring committees receive “unconscious bias” training or include “equity advisors”—people whose job it is to ensure diversity among the faculty.
The pattern here is the familiar one with upward and downward pressure leading to diversity mandates that detract and undermine the core mission.
The report indicates that more than a third of medical schools offer extra funding to departments that hit diversity targets, half require job applicants to submit diversity statements, and over two thirds “require departments/units to assemble a diverse pool of candidates for faculty positions.”
And they’re getting them. Not medically qualified, but politically qualified.
In addition, every school reported using a “holistic admissions” process—a euphemism for affirmative action—that assessed applicants’ grades and test scores in light of their race, lowering the academic bar for groups “underrepresented in medicine.”
Instead of doctors being chosen for their ability to help patients, they’re being chosen to make them feel represented.
This is millennial woke narcissism in a nutshell.
Released November 10, the report comes in the wake of a yearlong campaign by the Association of American Medical Colleges to inject “diversity, equity, and inclusion” into the accreditation process. A year ago, the group put out guidelines calling meritocracy a “malignant narrative.”
Now the next generation of medical practitioners will be the least meritorious since the bubonic plague.
Well, 40-80K patienst die a year from being misdiagnosed by medical doctors. 100K die, or are injured from being misdiagnosed. You can expect that to quadruple with diversity and AA hires. What’s interesting, and shows how ignorant the general public is, they rant, rave and riot over unarmed blacks being killed by the police. Even if the killing was justified. You had maybe, 11 or so, unarmed blacks killed by police in 2019, and over 20 whites. Yet, the medical community kills 40-80K a year and nobody knows, or at least the general public doesn’t know.
The comedian Sebastian Maniscalco had a funny line that is partly true. He starts off by making jokes about what Italians have done for jobs. Bragging about their artistry, being carpenters, and how they build things. Then speaks about being in the hospital: “Dr. Aqualino to the emergency room. Dr. Aqualino to the emergency room.” Sebastian, “Wait, what? Dr Aqualino? If I’m in the emergency room I want to hear Dr. Goldberg, or Dr. Wong to the emergency room. At least I know they studied.”
Good look with Dr LaQuisha Smith to the ER, or Dr, Sha Nay Nay Jones to the ER.
Yeah, the hospitals now have to have a filtration system, to weed out the ones most likely to get them sued.
…..in reality the woke will get them sued. You can never be woke enough for the woke. The woke will get the job because they tick a box. Then once they are in there they are a ticking time bomb, just waiting for the slip of a micro-aggression.
Thats already happening. Some hospitals and medical foundations are simply easy the worst offenders out before they cause too much damage, Its a hopeful trend and maybe, if were lucky, the worst of Daniels’ prognostics wont come to fruition. Still, there’s a lot of life left in the woke and now is no time to sit on our laurels.
Just hope and pray you or someone you love doesn’t get caught up in that filtration system. I’ve had several close calls with loved ones over the years as it is. And it’s a huge waste of expensive medical school space. I’ve always preferred older doctors, even if I only get them 10 or 15 years. The experience counts. Don’t know what I’ll do when the floor I set runs out.
An Italian American name would be a relief to hear, Maniscalco’s self deprecating humor aside. Even the title Dr. would be a relief to hear.
This is the destruction of the training of the medical profession on a grand scale
Medical schools were already discriminating against white males and white females in the 1970s.
True.
Giving up meritocracy for social engineering is suicidal.
Last year hearing United Airline’s social engineering push made me decide then and there to never fly United again.
The responses regarding C19 made me give up MDs i had used for years.
Social Engineering harms societal progress. It will get much worse when the left completes our Military’s wokeness. It is a formula that will allow the PRC to take over without even an arm wrestle.
And I suppose these schools haven’t considered the likelihood that these policies will lead people to avoid doctors-of-color like the plague whereas they wouldn’t have had admissions and licensing been based on merit.
They already do. Doctor friends have told me that while there are indeed some competent “minority” doctors, they would NEVER submit family or friends to one of unproven competence.
The problem for the patient is that he or she doesn’t know whether the black doctor to whom they’ve been referred is an affirmative discrimination beneficiary or a Dr. Ben Carson. So the solution is to avoid going to black doctors altogether. I doubt that’s what medical schools want to happen but that is the logical result of their policies.
I speak for other like me — those of with complicated medical issues….
Don’t destroy our lifelines by destroying medical care.
In other words: Don’t murder us, or condemn us to years of unrelenting pain!
THEY ALREADY ARE I HAD ONE AND ABOUT PUNCHED HIM IN HIS SPOILED BRAT NOSE.
They are already incompetent. Thy have only 2 years of post graduate lecture classes. That is less than any MBA or MSW program.
Next generation, my ass. The graduates since about 2000 or so been worthless. I know because I was a residency Director and witnessed first hand the useless crap medical schools were turning out.
Ever since the self-image crap of the 1980s!
No documentation or links? Without those your quotes are worthless to real researchers.
He’s under a copy deadline, so I dod the work for YOU:
https://store.aamc.org/downloadable/download/sample/sample_id/578/
This screed is almost laughable.
1. “In addition, every school reported using a “holistic admissions” process—a euphemism for affirmative action”
You got your euphemisms wrong. This means we will admit more white women who already dominate the medical schools. And this is how it has been for well over a decade . And this is how it is now. The main beneficiaries of affirmative action are white women. And every statistic and objective measure proves this tobe the case. And yet you are still waving the boogeyman of unqualified AA’s. (To be fair you never directly said AA’s but it’s clear from the comments most people immediately equate affirmative action with the hiring of unqualified AA’s.) Any rashes of ” iatrogenic diseases” will be doled out by primarily white women because that is who dominate the field and who will continue to do so for many years to come.
2. Incompetent and dangerous? Really? You mean like the folks who gave out covid vaccinations like candy telling everyone if you take the shot you won’t get covid? You mean like Fauci?
The beneficiary of affirmative action bean counting that took the place of Allan Bakke was a black man, not a white woman. The Bakke case was decided by the Supreme Court in 1978. It banned quotas with specific numbers and permitted the same discrimination without such. The specific black doctor was hailed as a poster idol until a patient’s death stopped his career. You can cite statistics all day, but the concerns are not in the least bit laughable. Equal rights and medical competence are at issue. Add to that the hours medical students and doctors now have to submit to take away from their actual studies and practice. Such ideological lectures by themselves drove some of those behind the Iron Curtain to flee.
And those women are wholly woke and very aggressive about proselytizing the most outlandish, post modern and far left drivel.
False. The main beneficiaries of AA are blacks. You’re ignoring the effects of other factors and trends, such as economic convergence, changing social norms, and antidiscrimination laws, on the economic status of white woman.
White women score higher on every standard of testing than blacks do. You can take any test whether it be a civil service exam, SAT, college entrance exam, and the results are always the the same. Whites score #1, Hispanics #2 and blacks last. If Asians are included they score #1.
White women earn their status based on merit. Blacks earn it based on AA, diversity and a dumbed down curriculum. Exceptions, lowered standards, diversity are all benefit blacks who can’t achieve anything, as a group, on merit. Lowered standards, diversity, inclusion, all code for anti-white and only apply to the benefit of blacks.
False. The main beneficiaries of AA are blacks. You’re ignoring the effects of other factors and trends, such as economic convergence, changing social norms, and antidiscrimination laws, on the economic status of white woman.
White women score higher on every standard of testing than blacks do. You can take any test whether it be a civil service exam, SAT, college entrance exam, and the results are always the the same. Whites score #1, Hispanics #2 and blacks last. If Asians are included they score #1.
White women earn their status based on merit. Blacks earn it based on AA, diversity and a dumbed down curriculum. Exceptions, lowered standards, diversity are all benefit blacks who can’t achieve anything, as a group, on merit. Lowered standards, diversity, inclusion, all code for anti-white and only apply to the benefit of blacks.
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Thanks! Tragic.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/02/the_man_who_replaced_bakke_.html
next? they have been incompetent for decades. ever since they became big pharma drug pushers.
“The removal of merit and competency to attain any position be it a job, acceptance to a college etc…. will lead to the destruction of our civilization.” – Dr. Jordan Peterson
100% correct. For best results in any field, meritocracy is required. we had that for quite some time. Then the leftists came to dominate via foolish, non-thinking voters.
To emphasize social engineering and the promoting the lesser talents is to invite suicide eventually for that nation. The left is now working on that for our Military. The PRC will not have to actually fight to win the next contest.
Now our Politicians especially seem to be products of social engineering. Does anyone really believe they are productive, quality people? For the vast majority of them it is quite the opposite. Just look at Pelosi, Schumer, Waters, others.
“Next generation?” They already are and have been for decades.
How competent did they need to be to send people with Covid home to get sicker when there are available treatments? Trump mentioned one of the earlier ones but then he went quiet and let things take their course.
All they need to do is follow orders.
McConnell at CPAC: Repeal Obamacare “root and branch”
Because this has been going on for 10 years, I’m at the point I do not want a doctor younger than 30; maybe even 40.
So they are adding diversity and wokeness to their preexisting condition of incompetence. What has taken place in healthcare over the last few years proves it. Most physicians are sheep who just follow their big pharma overlords orders.
Just remember folks, it’s the “practice” of medicine. You best start taking care of yourselves quickly. Exercise, diet rich in protein from red meat and natural fats, avoid all processed foods and sugar. Do all you can to find alternatives to the poisons they prescribe you. And the big one…avoid seed oils. Olive oil is the only safe one. Avocado is ok, but most are contaminated with other cheap oils.
Pretty scary to hear “Dr. Krishamurthy to the ER”.. Why? Many schools in India crank out doctors like widgets on a production line.. Also, they simply do not have the same regard for human life as Western doctors. Sorry, it’s true.
6 years ago, my DH was in a coma, and the chemicals in his blood were so out of whack that our local hospital transferred him by emergency ambulance to a hospital where we (his doctor and I) were assured that DH would be rushed straight into dialysis. For 4 days the physician – a Muslim from an Arabic country- refused to not only do the dialysis but refused to meet with or talk with me, a woman. For four days I fought incompetent, imported nursing staff from several different countries, one so incompetent that instead of injecting meds into his IV line, she shot them from the syringe into his eye – and laughed hysterically. He didn’t get those meds that night. The Muslim doctor told the American doctor who WOULD speak to me that my DH would never get any better, and presented me with DNR orders. I refused. I finally had to march into the hospital admin office and refuse to leave, to get him the dialysis he was sent there to get! 2 days later I brought him home – walking and talking again. Beware – their purpose is to profit off of the American medical system, and they don’t care who they ignore, torture, or actively try to kill.