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Imagine what the outrage would be if demographics were reversed.
"Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration is minding my own business."
Calvin Coolidge
The good thing if they succeed is only the lunies will be left.
Hospital System Backs Off Race-Based Treatment Policy After Legal Threat
https://freebeacon.com/coronavirus/h...-legal-threat/
Aaron Sibarium • January 14, 2022 5:35 pm
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One of the largest hospital systems in the United States gave race more weight than diabetes, obesity, asthma, and hypertension combined in its allocation scheme for COVID treatments, only to reverse the policy after threats of legal action.
SSM Health, a Catholic health system that operates 23 hospitals across Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Wisconsin, began using the scoring system last year to allocate scarce doses of Regeneron, the antibody cocktail that President Donald Trump credited for his recovery from COVID-19. A patient must score at least 20 points to qualify for the drug. The rubric gives three points to patients with diabetes, one for obesity, one for asthma, and one for hypertension, for a total of six points. Identifying as "Non-White or Hispanic" race, on the other hand, nets a patient seven points, regardless of age or underlying conditions.
In a Dec. 30 email to physicians, the health system said it would use the same rubric for Sotrovimab, a monoclonal antibody treatment that has proven effective against the now-dominant Omicron variant.
“Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.” - Arnold Toynbee
I guess because men older than 60 are obviously well past their child-bearing years ...
https://twitter.com/Not_the_Bee/stat...86320770756613
Putting the men in menopause.I guess because men older than 60 are obviously well past their child-bearing years ...
https://twitter.com/Not_the_Bee/stat...86320770756613
https://twitter.com/VivekGRamaswamy/...51184799760386
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(h/t Chris Rufo)
If you don't consign and submit your mental health to the care of woke professionals and the "community", then you are a bigoted racist/misogynist/transphobic/etc. oppressor:
https://calendar.usc.edu/event/disma...e_of_self_care
https://twitter.com/wokal_distance/s...01154092466178
"gender affirming care for minors" = biochemical and physical mutilation of children
PDF: https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/fi...rming-care.pdf
https://twitter.com/NotGovernor/stat...38343918153728
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UK hospital cites 'trans' employee's feelings when cancelling woman's life-saving surgery over request for female care team
A London hospital has prioritized the feelings of a biological male who identifies as female over the life of a woman who is a survivor of sexual violence.
https://thepostmillennial.com/uk-hos...male-care-team
Mia Ashton (20 October 2022)
A London hospital has prioritized the feelings of a biological male who identifies as female over the life of a women who is the survivor of sexual violence. According to the Daily Mail, the patient, a retired lawyer and feminist, had a vitally important surgery cancelled by the hospital after she had requested an all-female post-op care team.
The patient, called Emma by The Daily Mail, was in urgent need of colorectal surgery and had chosen the private London’s Princess Grace Hospital because it was one of only a few to use a Da Vinci robot which could perform the complex surgery in the most minimally invasive way possible.
But when Emma registered with the hospital, she made her legally-protected gender critical beliefs known.
“I was not going to agree to fill in reams of hospital paperwork about my non-existent ‘gender identity’ or give my pronouns to anyone,” she told The Daily Mail.
But an unsettling encounter occurred during her pre-op assessment on Oct 6. During her visit, an individual who appeared to be a biological male wearing a blond wig and makeup opened the door to her room and made eye contact with her.
This incident is currently being investigated by the hospital after Emma filed an official complaint. The patient then made an extra request for an all-female post-op care team.
“I began to wonder if it was just a coincidence that this member of staff with a ‘gender identity’ had made their presence felt to me in such an inappropriate way during my first visit,” Emma told the Daily Mail.
“I began to suspect that I had been targeted because my patient records showed that I refused to use pronouns and wanted single sex facilities, although I have no evidence of that.”
The survivor of sexual violence then started to panic at the thought of men providing intimate care during the week following her surgery and so wrote to the hospital’s parent company, HCA Healthcare, explaining her concerns and citing the landmark Maya Forstater ruling which enshrined gender-critical beliefs as protected in law.
However, instead of sympathizing with the distress of a very sick survivor of sexual violence, the hospital cancelled her surgery, citing the need to “protect staff from unacceptable distress.”
In the email from the hospital’s chief executive Maxine Estrop Green, she was told that she should make alternative arrangements for her surgery because the hospital “did not share her beliefs.”
After Emma implored them to reconsider, she was told that she could be offered a private room but that her request for single-sex care could not be fulfilled. The email also stated that the hospital had to protect its staff from “discrimination and harassment” in reference to her comment about pronouns.
“I am still in a state of shock at this punitive and discriminatory reaction by the CEO of this hospital which specializes in women’s procedures,” she told the Daily Mail.
“As always, this is about appeasing men who claim a gender identity. They will punish anyone who tells the truth … Women’s safety, dignity, and privacy continues to be sacrificed on the altar of this quasi religion.”
Author Mandy Stadtmiller took to Twitter to share a deeply personal account of the appalling care she received at the hands of male doctors as a 15-year-old rape victim, stressing how important it is that women be able to request female-only staff when they are vulnerable and distressed.
“Speak up about this as loudly and as noisily as you can. If you care about women at all please make it clear that this is not okay.”
She encouraged others to tell the hospital how wrong it is to hold a woman's life hostage simply because she wants a female care team, and doesn't believe in gender identity.
The letter, addressed to the hospital, reads: "Dear Mr. Hazen, I am appalled to hear that a female patient at the Princess Grace Hospital in the UK had her urgent and complex surgery cancelled because the hospital is unwilling to allow her to have female-only nurses assisting her. She is a rape survivor and requires female-only care. However, your hospital staff placed the feelings of males who wish to present female over her rights to appropriate care that would allow her the sense of safety, dignity and privacy she required. This is outrageous, inhumane, and extremely dangerous discrimination."
Women’s rights campaigner Kellie-Jay Keen called the hospital’s conduct “misogyny in heels.”
“Once we are in a society whereby women are compelled to pretend men can be women, and everything must flow from such orthodoxy, there is no end to the consequences,” Keen told the outlet. “Those that are the hardest to bear are around issues of safeguarding for women and children. Prioritizing a man’s feelings over a woman’s health is just another example, in this case particularly egregious, of how powerful this ideology really is.”
Outraged women took to social media calling for people to email the hospital to express their disgust that a woman’s life is worth less than the feelings of a male who claims to possess a female gender identity.
According to a Twitter thread, without the option of surgery using the Da Vinci robot, Emma’s only option is a more invasive open surgery, but her condition has since deteriorated and she may now be too weak to undergo such a procedure.
Welcome to the intersection of Lysenkoist medical "science" and Maoist "struggle sessions":
BC nurse's support for 'transphobic' JK Rowling cited by 'expert' as reason to fire her at disciplinary hearing
Findlay read selections from Rowling's essay about her own sexual assault and asked Bauer to explain why each was either inaccurate or harmful to the transgender community, as a way to show that Hamm's support of Rowling makes her unfit to be a nurse.
https://thepostmillennial.com/exclus...linary-hearing
Mia Ashton (26 October 2022)
The disciplinary hearing of a Canadian nurse under investigation for allegedly transphobic off-duty activity reconvened Monday, and the first order of business was an attempt to prove that world-renowned author, JK Rowling, is transphobic.
Hamm, who has never had a single patient complaint in her decade-long nursing career, says the event that triggered trans activists to go after her job was when she and child-safeguarding advocate Chris Elston put up a billboard in Vancouver which read I love JK Rowling, as a way to show support for Rowling who was at the time facing severe backlash for her support of women's rights.
Nurse May Lose Job For Opposing Trans Agenda
A Vancouver Nurse is under investigation after complaints were lodged against her over her "gender critical" views. Amy Eileen-Hamm had sponsored a billboard expressing support for famed children's author JK Rowling, and for this, she faced calls for her permanent removal from her career in nursing and is under investigation by the BC College of Nurses and Midwives.
Since this story broke, Amy has retained the representation of the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms. The JCCF is a charity based law group, dedicated to representing people fighting in constitutional matters. All of their cases are done on a pro-bono basis.
https://rumble.com/vkyt4y-nurse-may-...ns-agenda.html
On day 4 of the eleven-day hearing, "barbara findlay" KC, legal counsel for the British Columbia College of Nurses and Midwives (BCCNM), who asks that her name be written without capital letters in order to express something about marginalization, continued her direct examination of the college's expert witness, Dr. Greta Bauer, by going through an essay Rowling wrote in June 2020 about her own sexual assault.
Findlay read out select quotes Rowling's essay about her own sexual assault and asked Bauer to explain why each was either inaccurate or harmful to the transgender community, as a way to show that Hamm's support of Rowling makes her unfit to be a nurse.
"It has been clear to me for a while now that the new trans activism is having, or is likely to have if all its demands are met, a significant impact on many of the causes I support because it's pushing to erode the legal definition of sex and replace it with gender," was the first Rowling quote to be put under weak scrutiny.
"That's absolutely not the intention," replied Bauer, after stating that she could only comment on the area of her expertise, which is health and scientific research, notably not what Rowling was referring to at all. She explained that in her area of research sex and gender are both important.
Next came an attempt to discredit Dr. Lisa Littman's 2018 study that resulted in her rapid-onset gender dysphoria (ROGD) hypothesis, which Rowling wrote about in her essay. Using parent reports, Littman described an unusual pattern of transgender identification where mulitple friends and even whole friend groups started identifying as transgender at the same time. This observation led Littman to consider social contagion and peer influence as potential factors.
"Littman mentioned Tumblr, Reddit, Instagram, and YouTube as contributing factors to rapid-onset gender dysphoria where she believes that in the realm of transgender identification, youth have created particularly insular echo chambers," read Findlay from Rowling's essay, before asking Bauer to comment on the validity of Littman's study.
Bauer suggested Littman's sample "wasn't unbiased" and pointed to the fact that this was the perception of the parents and that no adolescents were asked to participate directly. This she seemed to feel invalidated the findings.
But the expert witness failed to mention that parent report is a standard methodology used in research related to child mental health, or that several studies which support "gender-affirming" care for minors use the same methodology without attracting criticism by activists.
Furthermore, there is evidence that young people are coached in internet forums on what to say to doctors in order to get on puberty blockers and testosterone right away, which means they wouldn't be likely to provide accurate information in a research setting.
"The work that has been done to date does not support [Littman's] hypothesis," said Bauer, referring to her own research of adolescents in clinical care. "We didn't find evidence to support that hypothesis in that group."
The research Bauer is referring to here is a paper published in Nov 2021 which claimed to find no evidence of ROGD due to the fact that they found no association between self-reported awareness of gender and self-reported psychiatric comorbidities such as self-harm or suicide ideation. But given the coaching that goes on in forums, it is surely at least a possibility that these young people tell doctors what they think they want to hear, not the actual truth, making Bauer's research also in doubt.
So far, we don't appear to have uncovered any evidence of JK Rowling's alleged transphobia, but the next attempt comes in the form of Findlay reading out a quote from Rowling's essay by Tavistock whistleblower Marcus Evans, in which he questions the trans activist claim that if young people are not given access to medical transition, they will commit suicide, a claim that has been debunked several times.
Bauer replies that in the context of her own research, and that done by others, 35 percent - 40 percent of older adolescents consistently report attempting suicide in the past year, and her own research with Trans Pulse ON found that 11 percent had attempted suicide. She stated that the group most at risk for suicide were those who wanted to access "gender-affirming" care but hadn't yet, and that the rate of attempted suicide dropped to less than 1 percent for those who had completed the medical transition process.
These results are to be expected given the fact that there is a honeymoon period post-transition, but are not consistent with a long-term study from Sweden which shows the suicide rate ten years post-transition is significantly higher than that of the rest of the population.
Another attempt to uncover transphobia in Rowling's essay was to find fault with the claim that 60-90 percent of children grow out of their gender dysphoria, which was coincidentally confirmed by the new NHS specifications released recently as a result of the independent review of England's youth gender services by Dr. Hilary Cass, former President of the Royal College of Paediatrics.
Bauer accurately stated that these numbers come from research done on an entirely different cohort of young people to those being referred to clinics now, but failed to acknowledge that this is because there has been a dramatic shift in the case-mix of children presenting to gender clinics in the past decade, since the modern trans rights movement began, from predominantly males with dysphoria starting in early childhood to predominantly females with dysphoria starting suddenly at puberty. This cohort is also described by Dr. Hilary Cass in her report that led to England's Tavistock gender clinic being forced to close its doors after it was found to be neither a safe nor viable option for the care of young people, and was observed by both Sweden and Finland in reviews that led both nations to halt medical transition for minors.
Findlay and Bauer concluded the examination of Rowling's writing with a blatant misrepresentation of a section of the essay in which the author says she believes "the trans movement is doing demonstrable harm in seeking to erode 'woman' as a political and biological class and offering cover to predators like few before it."
"Is there any evidence in the research that transwomen are predators?" Findlay asks, seemingly unaware that this is not what Rowling was saying at all.
"As a group, no," replied Bauer.
"Taken as a whole, do the views like the ones that Rowling has expressed in her article contribute to harms experienced by trans people?" continued Findlay.
Bauer replied that some of the statements Rowling makes do cause harm because they portray trans people as a group as potential predators that pose a risk to "cisgender" women and girls, which suggests trans people are not normal, not safe, but rather sick and dangerous. The trouble is, Rowling didn't say this. She said that male people, not trans people, are a risk to female people, which is an easily verifiable fact.
In almost an hour of direct examination, not one bit of evidence was found of JK Rowling's transphobia. Instead, all that was produced were valid arguments in an ongoing, complex political debate that, while they may be offensive to some members of the transgender community, are surely not grounds for a nurse to lose her job for supporting.
Apparently, they are now able to quantify and measure "microaggressions" and "systemic discrimination" with a precision of at least two significant decimal places.
FTA: https://www.insider.com/racism-discr...-study-2022-11
Now, researchers are better understanding how racism can harm the brain. A previous study that collected data from 59,000 Black women found those who experienced daily microaggressions and systemic discrimination were 2.75 times more likely to have worse cognitive functioning, an earlier indicator for Alzheimer's disease.
Amazing that they studied only black women, yet can eliminate these environmental factors from their data.Apparently, they are now able to quantify and measure "microaggressions" and "systemic discrimination" with a precision of at least two significant decimal places.
FTA: https://www.insider.com/racism-discr...-study-2022-11
https://twitter.com/wesyang/status/1605992886864068609
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[Article (Reuters): Why detransitioners are crucial to the science of gender care]
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PURE EVIL
https://twitter.com/wesyang/status/1605993790908469248
https://www.reuters.com/investigates...outh-outcomes/
Lysenkoism
One of the most notorious names almost nobody in the West remembers is Trofim Lysenko. His horrific ideas about agriculture and biology, derived mostly from crackpot Marxist Socialist and Soviet Theory, led to the starvation and deaths of tens of millions of people in the Soviet Union and Communist China. Opposing or challenging his ideas was a one-way ticket to cancellation, reeducation, or destruction. Lysenkoism, therefore, is the enforced application of an ideological lens that distorts science, and thanks to Woke Marxism and the "Sustainability" agenda, we're facing our own looming (and unfolding) Lysenkoist catastrophe right now throughout Western nations. Host James Lindsay breaks it down for you in this episode of New Discourses Bullets. Join him to understand an important facet of what's happening around you and the history behind it. It's not the first time in human history we've made this technocratic, scientistic mistake.
https://odysee.com/@newdiscourses:9/lysenkoism:f
https://twitter.com/ConceptualJames/...27047128842241
Twitter thread by Houman David Hemmati, MD, PhD (@houmanhemmati)
[https://twitter.com/houmanhemmati/st...54712215322624 to https://twitter.com/houmanhemmati/st...54866821566465]
There's been a lot of recent attention on #DEI in college admissions thanks to @GovRonDeSantis @RonDeSantisFL pushing to ban DEI-based admissions in Florida & to DEI in medicine w/@IngrahamAngle @wsj @nypost reporting on @AAMCtoday adding DEI to medical schools. But the scope of DEI in medical school admissions hasn't been known by the general public. As a former admissions committee member of a top-20 med school, I was shocked to learn how much med schools have recently shifted away from merit & questions about "why medicine" goals as a physician to overtly DEI-based admissions questions. Here's what I have found:
Of all the allopathic (MD) and osteopathic (DO) medical schools in the United States, the majority have questions on their 2022-2023 application cycle applications that relate to “DEI” issues. Typically, the question is: “How would you contribute to the diversity of our medical school.” For someone who doesn’t meet the currently-accepted definition of “diversity”, that’s already a hard enough question to answer. Yet many med schools go (far) beyond basic DEI to ask about identity, sexual orientation, anti-racism and proof that the applicant is committed to social justice issues. These questions are used to screen and weed out applicants. If you don’t pass, you won’t get an interview and your application is dead.
A for-profit admissions advising site has done a great job of publishing every medical school’s 2022-2023 secondary (school specific) application questions. They’re located here (I have no affiliation with the site/company):
Here’s a list of US med schools that I found to contain at least one DEI question on their application. Note that many are surprisingly in “red” states like FL and TX where you’d least expect it: [list hidden to save space]
Among these DEI-focused med schools, there are some that take DEI to an entirely new level, making you wonder whether they’re recruiting future doctors or future social justice warriors like the PhD social justice “doctor” Barbara Ferrer who leads @lapublichealth. Take @StanfordMed which asks: “The Committee on Admissions regards the diversity (broadly defined) of an entering class as an important factor in serving the educational mission of the school. You are strongly encouraged to share unique attributes of your personal identity, and/ or personally important or challenging factors in your background. Such discussions may include the quality of your early education, gender identity, sexual orientation, any physical challenges, or any other life or work experiences.”
Or @UCIMedSchool which asks “Do you identify as being part of a marginalized group socioeconomically or in terms of access to quality education or healthcare? If so, please describe how this inequity has impacted you and your community.” @dgsomucla echoes those themes by asking “Do you identify as being part of a group that has been marginalized (examples include, but are not limited to, LGBTQIA, disabilities, federally recognized tribe) in terms of access to education or healthcare? (Yes/No) • If you answered “Yes” to the above, answer the following prompt: Describe how this inequity has impacted you or your community and how educational disparity, health disparity and/or marginalization has impacted you and your community.” Not wanting to be left out, @UCSFMedicine asks “Do you identify as being part of a marginalized group socioeconomically or in terms of access to quality education or healthcare? Please describe how this inequity has impacted you and your community.” And @KeckMedUSC simply asks “Are you a member of a group that is under-represented in medicine? (Yes/No) • If yes: Which Group? How does under-representation affect your community? “ Notice a pattern? If you’re not oppressed or marginalized in their particular way, you’re not as worthy.
It gets interesting from here. @WesternU won’t let you apply unless you think DEI is “important” by asking “What does diversity, equity, and inclusion mean to you and why are they important? “ Not to be undone, GWU in DC asks “Describe how current issues regarding advocacy and social justice have impacted your motivation for medical school?” Too bad if you want to be a doctor to just help sick people or keep people healthy. While other med schools like @FSUCoM in Florida care a lot about identity by asking “If there is an important aspect of your personal background or identity, not addressed elsewhere in the application, that you are comfortable voluntarily sharing with the Committee, we invite you to do so here. Many applicants will not need to answer this question. Examples might include significant challenges in access to education, unusual socioeconomic factors, identification with a minority culture, religion, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation or gender identity. Briefly explain how such factors have influenced your motivation for a career in medicine.”
U Kansas continues the identity theme by asking applicants “Please tell us about your identity. How has your identity impacted the development of your values and attitudes toward others, particularly those with values different from your own? Please include how your values and attitudes will foster a positive learning environment during your training, and benefit your future patients through the practice of medicine.” Can you apply if you identify as a human? Such factors also matter to U Kentucky which asks “Please share unique, personally important, and/or challenging facts in your background, such as the quality of your early educational environment, socioeconomic status, culture, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, or life/work experiences. Please discuss how such factors have influenced your goals and preparation for a career in medicine.”
Interestingly, U Louisville makes it clear that certain non-diverse cultures are less capable of delivering “equitable care” when they ask “How have your cultural experiences shaped the way you see yourself contributing to the medical field and strengthened your ability to provide equitable care for a diverse patient population?” @TulaneMedicine asks the seemingly bread and butter DEI question “Tulane University School of Medicine values the diversity of its patients, faculty, staff, and students. Do you identify with a particular group that you believe is underrepresented among medical professionals? These include groups oriented around, but nt limited to: ethnicity, race, sexuality, religion, disability, and economic background.” The military medical school even gets in on it when @USUhealthsci overtly invokes DEI in their application by asking “Our Admissions Committee assembles classes of students with a wide range of backgrounds, skills, experiences, and talents. Please describe how a special quality or experience of yours has informed your ability to participate well in a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment.”
@harvardmed at least acknowledges that not every applicant will meet the DEI litmus test by saying “If there is an important aspect of your personal background or identity, not addressed elsewhere in the application, that you would like to share with the Committee, we invite you to do so here. Many applicants will not need to answer this question. Examples might include significant challenges in access to education, unusual socioeconomic factors, identification with a minority culture, religion, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation or gender identity. Briefly explain how such factors have influenced your motivation for a career in medicine.”
Med schools in Michigan are aboard the DEI and systemic injustice train as well! @michiganstateu asks “American society may be experiencing a watershed moment as it reckons with various systemic injustices. Use the space below to share your thoughts about this statement.” And @UMichMedSchool has a two-parter with “• Describe your identity and how it has impacted the development of your values and attitudes toward individuals different from yourself and how this will impact your interactions with future colleagues and patients. • If you recognize and/or represent a voice that is missing, underrepresented, or undervalued in medicine, please describe the missing voice(s) and how increased representation in medicine could impact the medical community.”
The hands-down winner of the med school admissions DEI contest is @umnmedschool in Minnesota with its EPIC DEI application and DEI-driven “pathways” that segregate students based on identity:
Describe a time when you personally experienced, observed, or acted with explicit bias. What did you learn about yourself and the experience?
The University of Minnesota Medical School is committed to building an anti-racist community. Please share your reflections on, experiences with, and greatest lessons learned about systemic racism. (Consider this country's history, racism, racial injustice, anti-black racism, and the impact of the murder of Mr. George Floyd on the Minnesota/Twin Cities community).
How will your unique attributes (religion, race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, ideology, intellectual heritage, and/or experiences) add to the overall diversity of the University of Minnesota Medical School community?
Select your pathway interest(s) below (you may select more than one). Once you make your selection there will be additional questions that you will be required to answer:
- Indigenous Health Pathway
- Rural Health Pathway
- Urban Communities Pathway
- 2SLGBTQIA+ Pathway: The University of Minnesota Medical School is committed to dismantling the health disparities affecting Minnesota’s 2SLGBTQIA+ communities. Describe your experiences engaging and/or working with 2SLGBTQIA+ communities and explain why 2SLGBTQIA+ inclusive health care is important
- Immigrant | Refugee | Global Health Pathway
And this continues with @MOmedicine asking “"How will your diversity/diverse experiences (e.g., gender, gender identity, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, veteran status, from rural or underserved community, first generation student status) add to your career in medicine?" And @WUSTL similarly asks “Is there anything else you would like to share with the Committee on Admissions? Some applicants use this space to describe unique experiences and obstacles such as significant challenges in access to education, unusual socioeconomic factors, and/or identification with a particular culture, religion, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or gender identity and/or possibly challenges related to COVID or other issues in preparation for medical school.”
@GeiselMed at @dartmouth has an interesting DEI question: “Geisel School of Medicine values social justice and diversity in all its forms. Reflect on a situation where you were the “other.”” Are you allowed to answer with “When I applied to med school as a non-diverse applicant”?
The most shocking example of a med school overtly threatening to CANCEL you and rescind admission or kick you out if your PAST OR PRESENT social media presence has ever said anything offensive is New York Medical College (which even has a @Diverse_NYMC Twitter account) that actually says (not a joke!): “Please review the NYMC Social Media Policy. If you select YES, we ask that you please briefly explain what has been posted. In keeping with New York Medical College’s (NYMC) and Touro College and University System’s policies on prospective student online conduct, College staff members do not “police” online social networks and the College is firmly committed to the principle of free speech. However, when the College receives a report of inappropriate online conduct, we are obligated to investigate; New York Medical College reserves the right to rescind admissions for misconduct or lack of professionalism wherever it occurs, including online. Is there anything in your social media presence (past, or present) that would bring discredit or dishonor on you, the institution, the program or profession (if applicable) or that could be considered derogatory, hateful, or threatening? (Yes/ No)” WHAT?!? I think they made this for @kevinnbass
@StonyBrookMed doesn’t give you the option to say “none” when they ask “What, in your opinion, is the role of a physician in addressing systemic racism and societal injustices?” And @OHSUSOM REALLY wants to make sure you understand and adhere to their definition of diversity: “Please discuss how your personal experience demonstrates the ability to overcome adversity and contributes to diversity in the provision of healthcare. Please include any insight into the diversity that you would bring to OHSU School of Medicine and the profession of medicine in the context of OHSU's definition of diversity: Diversity at OHSU requires creating and sustaining a community of inclusion. We honor, respect, embrace and value the unique contributions and perspectives of all employees, patients, students, volunteers and our local and global communities. Diversity may include age, color, culture, disability, ethnicity, gender identity or expression, marital status, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, and socioeconomic status. We respect diversity of thought, ideas and more. Diversity maximizes our true potential for creativity, innovation, quality patient care, educational excellence and outstanding service.”
In comparison to other DEI med schools, @GeisingerCwlth seems boring when they only ask “Geisinger Commonwealth values diversity and is committed to maintaining an inclusive environment. How will you contribute to our commitment to diversity, social justice, equity, and inclusion?”
In another example of “Did they really say that?!” Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine actually comes out and asks “PCOM recognizes and affirms the dignity of all members of the PCOM community. Do you self-identify as part of the LGBTQIA community? (Yes/No) • If yes, please use this space to specify your identity within the LGBTQIA community, if you wish.” Wow. Just wow.
Finally, in Texas, @utmbhealth asks “John Sealy School of Medicine values inclusion and advocacy. Describe a time when you advocated for someone whose social identity (e.g., race, gender, sex, sexual orientation, religion, socioeconomic status, ability status, etc.) differed from yours. Explain the situation and why advocacy was necessary” & @UTHealthRGV (@BillFOXLA stomping grounds) asks “The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine has commitments to diversity, inclusion, and health equity. What do these terms mean to you? What is their importance to medical education and practice, as well as to the health of our society in general?” Finally, @UofUHealth asks “ The School of Medicine aims to create a culture of inclusion and anti-racism in health education and healthcare delivery. How have you promoted or advocated for health equity in your experiences? How do you envision contributing to the UUSOM and the communities we serve?”
We need to ask whether these DEI admissions questions/policies, which are so obsessively focused on sexual orientation, gender identity, skin color and other factors, do anything to create doctors who deliver better care. Back in my day, med schools believed that any good person could be trained to take care of any patient, regardless of who they are, by treating every human with equal value, equal compassion, and an equal commitment to better health. Do doctors now really need to look and/or act like their patients to deliver them quality care? Sure, there can certainly be cultural and language benefits in many cases, but med schools are clearly going beyond that by selecting for progressive social justice activists and people with “diverse” identities rather than focusing on who is going into medicine for the right reasons and who is most likely to perform well in the future. It’s time for a serious discussion about this.
The irony is that Trofim Lysenko and his bosses would happily line these idiots up against a wall and have them all shot.
https://twitter.com/Provokatov/statu...16364762145184
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