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UCLA’s first-year medical students were required late last month to sit through a two-hour lecture on the subject of “Housing (In)Justice” that was part of a mandatory course on “structural racism” at UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine. UCLA’s guest lecturer was a left-wing homeless advocate, Lisa Gray-Garcia (pictured above), who told her captive audience of aspiring doctors that modern medicine is “white science.” Her pagan prayers to “Mama Earth,” which were part of Ms. Gray-Garcia’s presentation, included a blessing for “black,” “brown,” and “houseless people” who, she claimed, die because of the “crapatalist lie” of “private property.”
Wearing a Palestinian scarf, Ms. Gray-Garcia, a Hamas sympathizer who once posted on X that “Israel is Amerikkklan,” led UCLA’s medical students in chants of “Free, free Palestine.”
UCLA’s medical school has declared on its website that its fundamental mission is to champion “Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion.” In pursuit of achieving “equity,” the website states, “We have a collective commitment to combat structural racism.” Its “anti-racism roadmap” includes developing “an advisory committee to include experts in critical race theory, social justice, bias, and health disparities.”
The school’s reading list includes books by leading critical race theorists. They include Robin DiAngelo’s “White fragility: Why it’s so hard for white people to talk about racism” and Ibram X. Kendi’s “How to be an antiracist.”
UCLA is not an outlier. Indoctrination in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (“DEI”) and Critical Race Theory dogmas is being force fed to medical school students and faculty across the country.
The Oregon Health and Science University’s “Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Anti-Racism Strategic Action Plan,” for example, requires “ongoing training and learning opportunities related to DEI and anti-racism for learners, staff, faculty and administrative leaders.” There will be “consequences for individuals who are not compliant with the required training,” the strategic action plan warns. This includes incorporating “DEI, anti-racism and social justice core competencies in performance appraisals of faculty and staff.”
Harvard Medical School states as one of its anti-racism initiatives the development of classes to “acknowledge the ways in which racism is embedded in science and scientific culture and work to redress these longstanding issues.” In other words, Harvard Medical School is on board with the outrageous claim that medicine is “white science.”
The Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons’ Anti-Racism Task Force recommended that the school “Create and implement ongoing faculty development on race and racism for teaching faculty by individuals grounded in critical race theory.”
In developing their anti-racist learning objectives, medical schools like Columbia’s College of Physicians & Surgeons are using a framework drafted by the Association of American Medical Colleges (“AAMC”). The Association of American Medical Colleges published a paper in 2022 entitled “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Competencies Across the Learning Continuum.” The “cross-continuum competencies” described in AAMC’s paper are intended to “help educators design or adapt curricula and help educators and learners in their individual professional development and DEI journeys.”
Aspiring doctors entering their medical residencies, for example, should learn about “multiple forms of oppression or privilege related to clinical decisions and practice.” They should learn how to identify “systems of power, privilege, and oppression and their impacts on health outcomes (e.g., White privilege, racism, sexism, heterosexism, ableism, religious oppression).” For good measure, AAMC added the impacts of “colonization, White supremacy, acculturation” and “assimilation” to what residents need to be concerned about on their way to joining the medical profession.
AAMC’s paper recommends a series of workshops offered by the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Center for Antiracism in Practice. One of the workshops “prepares participants to identify the manifestations of racism and White supremacy within their courses” while another workshop “guides participants in describing the impact of racism and White supremacy on learners and their future patients.” In the third workshop of this series, “participants identify concrete change targets within their courses and begin to develop alternative, anti-racist policies and practices.”
AAMC refers readers of its 2022 paper to the meaning of “equity,” as opposed to “equality,” set forth in a another document entitled “Advancing Health Equity: Guide to Language, Narrative and Concept” prepared by AAMC in association with the American Medical Association (“AMA”)..
This document would make the most left-wing advocates of Critical Race Theory and DEI proud. Here is a sampling:
“Narratives grounded in white supremacy and sustaining structural racism…perpetuate cumulative disadvantage for some populations and cumulative advantage for white people, and especially white men. Patriarchal narratives enforce rigidly defined traditional norms, and reinforce inequities based on gender. Narratives that uncritically center meritocracy and individualism render invisible the very real constraints generated and reinforced by poverty, discrimination and ultimately exclusion. Yet a rich tradition of work in health equity and related fields, including critical race theory…gives us a foundation for an alternative narrative, one that challenges the status quo, one that moves health care towards justice.”
“While equality means providing the same to all, equity requires recognizing that we do not all start from the same place because power is unevenly distributed. The process is ongoing, requiring us to identify and overcome uneven distribution of power as well as intentional and unintentional barriers arising from bias or structural root causes.”
“Seeking to treat everyone the ‘same,’ this ignores the historical legacy of disinvestment and deprivation through policy of historically marginalized and minoritized communities as well as contemporary forms of discrimination that limit opportunities. Through systematic oppression and deprivation from ethnocide, genocide, forced removal from land and slavery, Indigenous and Black people have been relegated to the lowest socioeconomic ranks of this country. The ongoing xenophobic treatment of undocumented brown people and immigrants (including Indigenous people disposed of their land in other countries) is another example.”
The AMA-AAMC screed espouses the Marxist belief in redistributing “power and resources to those most in need” and calls for forging closer ties between public health and “social movements promoting racial, economic, and social justice.”
Not that many years ago, medical schools understood that their core mission was to teach students the vital skills needed to competently diagnose and treat diseases and to perform surgeries. But that singular focus on teaching basic and clinical medicine has gone the way of doctors making house calls.
Now, medical schools are teaching their students to view medicine through a racial lens. Helping students to learn how to practice competent medicine based on the Hippocratic Oath has given way to enlisting in the progressive Left’s war for so-called “social justice.”
In short, the increasing emphasis on DEI and Critical Race Theory in medical school programs is poisoning the next generation of doctors.
This is horrible. I would like to read specifics about how the above twisted ideology impacts diagnosis, testing, treatment, and long term care for patients in hospitals and out of hospitals.
I agree. I have to have shoulder surgery. I’m beginning to be very wary of the medical profession. At some point in the near future, I’m gonna ride out my life like it is. Gimpy, sick, whatever. Soon I will have better odds letting things ride than being treated by the medical tyranny.
As the saying goes “Everything woke turns to shit.” And there goes UCLA.
I am very grateful that there are people like Joseph Klein and Daniel Greenfield and David Horowitz and many others at FPM who can do the research and bring this vital information to the public.
These efforts are absolutely indispensable and necessary in order to be well informed of the facts and truths.
Thanks..
Could there actually be a future where shamans, faith healers, and psychic surgeons are more successful medics that the DEI hires? Scary sh*t…
Looks like those needing medical treatment in the future will need to secure the services of a top grade law firm in advance.
Lawyerin’ is useless to a dead man.
And the young useful idiots who claim to be studying medicine are still wearing masks!
Well, that’s one reason I never go to the doctor, bunch of overpaid pill pushers anyway.
It is true they mostly push pharmacy drugs.
But a close relative has a heart condition and regularly visited his cardiologist. One time 3 or 4 years ago, on a visit, the doc introduced him to his scribe. She was an English major thinking of entering medical college. It was a surprise. Previously, medical doctors were required to have a BS in biology, chemistry, or some other applicable science. Now, it appears social studies qualifies for entry to medical school.
Actually, it is related to the decline of America. Very soon foreign students will elect to go to countries that still respect science over social programs.
So I guess that “white science” is wrong. Disease isn’t caused by microscopic bacteria and viruses. It’s caused by evil spirits and the anger of the gods. Now there’s some indigenous medicine for you. These people are sick and will kill many if we can’t get this mind virus under control.
A FRIEND’S DAUGHTER, IN MED-SCHOOL, went on a school sponsored trip TO CUBA to learn of their “superior healthcare system.” SHE LEFT AFTER TWO WEEKS when she learned that it was to INDOCTRINATE them all. “Their doctors wouldn’t even qualify to be school nurses.” SHE WAS KICKED OUT OF THE PROGRAM and then she had a hard time finding a school that would accept her.
AFTER REAGAN GETS SHOT TELLING THE DOCTORS: “I hope all of you are Republicans.” (not an exact quote).
Even Hugo Chavez went to Cuba for his healthcare but then again, his Venezuelan doctors would have given him a sex change and a lobotomy!
During a “WE THE PEOPLE” rally in our downtown, a group of UNM nurses were there counter-protesting wearing their Covid masks and demanding that the protest end due to the fear of spreading Covid….. STRANGE….. they didn’t protest when BLM/ANTIFA had many rallies and then trashed our downtown! They also protested in front of the hospital.
MY POINT: IMAGINE being a MAGA patient with them as nurses! THAT’S LIKE being a MAGA defendant in a trial where everyone is a MAGAPHOBIC DEMOCRAT…. where even the cockroaches are Democrats! Try wearing a MAGA hat in a restaurant and the waitress puts that on your order with a MAGAPHOBIC COOK!
College professors back in 2020 assured us that “peacefully” protesting George Floyd’s death would not cause Covid to spread.
These are people with degrees! Just trust them!
Years ago I had a chiropractor who in frustration told me that American medicine was owned by the “Great Triumvirate” – the FDA, the AMA, and the pharmaceuticals, all in bed with each other. Considering the clot-shot controversies, the pushing of reassignment surgeries on children (a perpetual money-maker), and now this, someone doesn’t want a healthy nation anymore. Modern doctors already are little more than sales agents for big pharma, well, incompetence leads to more sickness, and to more profits for big pharma? Am I a little too paranoid ot what?
The Hippocratic Oath was replaced by the Hypocratic Oath years ago.
This is what ideologically-driven self-destruction looks like, because in the final analysis, as more and more of this insanity takes hold, people will do everything possible to avoid interacting with young and/or minority doctors.
When the Medical Schools and Universities of a nation go berserk, depraved and psychopathic, it will not be long
before the entire nation, society, and culture crashes.
America …. we is there.
It is true. By almost any metric.
The rot is wide spread and deep over our heads.
The purging of UCLA med should begin with the dean having his head shaved and dressed in rags before being brought before a kangaroo court in emulation of the system that the dean is inflicting on his students The purge should then move steadily up the chain of command to the office of the university president. This is the kind of great cultural Revolution that the people of Westwood demand.
“Physician, heal thyself” from Luke 4:23 comes to mind.
Um…..Garcia is a self absorbed goofball. Forcing the med students endure this crap is indicative of the unseriousness that is taking over all the very important institutions of our civilization that need to be very serious about what they do. Strange times indeed and getting stranger.
If I ever need heart surgery, I hope I get a doctor that was top in his class in modern open heart surgical techniques. Structural Racism Cum Laude is hardly a qualification for much of anything.
Relative of Randy? Oh, I don’t know. Structural Racism cum laude should qualify you for the Certificate in Advanced Credulity.
This is the culmination of removing YHVH from the classroom to the court houses and let the devil take over the hearts and minds of people in education. It’s now hip to be antisemitic?
Who let the RABID ANIMALS OUT OF THEIR CAGES ?
Answer:: It was the SWINES from whom they were WHELPED.
The gap between the expertise of the U.S. medical doctor and the expertise of the headhunter medicine man appears to be shrinking.
Whilst it is true that modern medicine is sometimes credited with the positive results of social changes, such as clean water, effective sewerage and good housing, there are limits to how far you can take a social model of disease, and they usually become apparent when significant physical symptoms start to show themselves. It is arguable that Big Pharma is a product of Western capitalism, but it would be very difficult to maintain that we should not give insulin to diabetics, or that voodoo is optimal treatment for an infected appendix. Critique of abuses is healthy (interesting how gender affirming care doesn’t get denounced as white medicine) but there has to be acceptance of those facts that are genuinely proven as a basis on which to found more functional systems. I worked at one point for a learning disabilities service which espoused social role valorisation. It was great that they tried to enable their clients to make key decisions for themselves. Less great was when one of them broke her leg and did not want it set, so they proposed honouring her decision by allowing her to use a wheelchair for the rest of her life. Ideology has to accommodate hard facts – otherwise it really will be the men in white coats that need to get involved.
So glad I’m a retired physician. I’m scared that these future docs may have to take care of me. Might as well just emulate the Chinese Communist cultural revolution of barefoot doctors w/o need for rigorous scientific medical education.
DEI & CRT will soon replace weapons of war as the Big Time killers for all Races
A number of years back (in the ’90’s), I met an acquaintance who was in medical school at the time. I asked him about the Hippocratic Oath, and he said that his medical school had a version they had just adopted, but that it really was not that important. This was a completely different attitude from all the doctors I have worked with throughout my life and I it was a little unsettling. I asked some more medical students and they all seemed to have the same attitude. This was anecdotal, I never did a scientific survey, but the episode stuck and was disturbing to me.
I was familiar with the 1948 Declaration of Geneva (available everywhere in books, online, etc) which was an update to address the issues with Nazi (and other) medical experiments, and had done a comparison with the original. The update was consistent with the original and seemed appropriate. I just went to the Internet to look it up to refresh myself … the totalitarian Left has been busy indeed with their Orwellian fetish on rewriting everything to fit their narrative of the moment. Constant changes to the Declaration of Geneva (they definitely had to pave the way for abortion and doctor-assisted suicide … which the original Hippocratic Oath and the 1948 Declaration of Geneva would not permit.) Took me some time to even find the 1948 Declaration, which was a decisive advance for world-wide medical ethics.
We now live in a very dark world.