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The AMA Racial Equity Plan is a Nightmare for Healthcare
The American Medical Association has finally gone fully woke. After firing prominent members after a removed podcast (replaced by an apology), they’ve decided to state their goals for equity.
Stephanie Stevens, of Medscape, summarizes everything nicely:
Moving forward from that [infamous podcast], the new strategic plan announces that the AMA will pursue five strategic approaches:
- Embed racial and social justice throughout the AMA enterprise culture, systems, policies, and practices
- Build alliances and share power with historically marginalized and minoritized physicians and other stakeholders
- Push upstream to address all determinants of health and the root causes of inequities
- Ensure equitable structures and opportunities in innovation
- Foster pathways for truth, racial healing, reconciliation, and transformation for the AMA’s past
If this doesn’t give people chills, I don’t know what would.
The AMA advises a number of organizations and their journal known as JAMA is one of the premier journals used as a reputable source by all medical facilities in the US, including teaching hospitals and universities. From the very beginning of their medical careers, students are taught to revere the AMA and the advice that they propose regarding medical conditions and policies in the US.
Since they’ve moved even further away from medicine and into politics (beginning with Obamacare and the idea of universal healthcare as a right), it is harder and harder to see them as a purely medical authority, rather than a political body used to reinforce the woke status-quo of our current regime. Unfortunately, our students are not taught to question any of these journals as a part of their so-called “critical thinking” coursework; they are merely taught to parrot them better and one-up them as not being revolutionary enough.
I suppose the important thing is that everyone gets a voice in care.
That’s good.
I certainly hope that they’re planning on being inclusive of the doctor-hating-severely-obese-illegal-drug-using doctors. Because we need to fully represent diversity and give everyone a voice, right?
Right.
Let’s just make sure that the proportions are all correct:
Women need to make up 35.1% of their board, and men need to be at most 64%. Most importantly, we need 0.9% of “Unknown” gender to be represented. I’m not sure how we’ll manage that, but maybe we can have one of these unknown people spend only part of the meeting time there…and we can get down to that 0.9% that would be equitable.
Most of the medical practitioners are MDs (90.6% – there’s that decimal again!), with DO’s coming in at 9.1%. Again, some people who claim to practice do not know their degree…and we’ll have to represent them too at 0.3%.
The median and average age is 51 years old, so we’ll have to make sure there’s enough of them represented, but at the same time, we can’t just go with averages. We’re talking about justice here and averages simply won’t do.
We’ll need to make sure that the addicts among the doctors are represented: there’s about 10-15% (depending on sources) that are addicts at some point during their careers. We’ll need to make sure we have appropriate accommodations so that they can give their voices regarding health care policy.
There’s also 42% of all doctors that are burned out. We need to make sure that they have a voice too.
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No wonder no one wants to break it all down into numbers. I’m already exhausted just looking at the different variables. I don’t know how we’re supposed to find doctors of the right age, gender expression, burnout score, ethnicity (or race, possibly both), degrees, and even weight!
But it’s important that we right the wrongs of the past by ensuring that the future be categorized correctly by visible or descriptive features and allowing those to dominate medical policy.
You know.
For equity’s sake.
Sources:
https://www.fsmb.org/physician-census/
https://www.medscape.com/slideshow/2020-lifestyle-burnout-6012460
https://americanaddictioncenters.org/medical-professionals/substance-abuse-among-doctors-key-statistics
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Who writes this stuff? Are there other kinds of doctors than general practitioners and specialty doctors? If only 15% of the black population is black, what are the other 85%?
Well, they’re not doctors, that’s for sure.
Well, let’s see… How many black males graduate from high school these days? Then, how many black males graduate from college these days? How many black males are in prison for murder these days? There’s your answer.
The Left destroyed the black family in the 1960s. Lay the blame on them.
I remember at the beginning of the pandemic all the black people in my community disappeared for about a month and then came back. No one was able to ask any questions. I don’t know what happened, or what actions local health officials may or may not have taken. But I do know that if I and others had tried to organize any kind of political response the black people in our community might not have come back for three months, or four. If you look at the studies that explain why COVID did not spike in communities with racial justice protests, there is a very simple explanation: black people in those neighborhoods were literally too scared to leave their homes, so the total number of people interacting on a daily basis stayed roughly the same. Literally, the only reason the protests didn’t kill tens of thousands of black people from COVID is because they were too scared to go out at all.
That did not happen in my community; black people came back and we all got on with our lives. We were lucky.
Let’s put aside all the normal American political baggage around race for a minute. When an ethnicity simply disappears in your community it’s actually pretty scary. Not being able to even ask why, because it might lead to them disappearing for longer–or being driven out–because it might spark an anarchist riot that the national media would then label “Black Lives Matter” is just completely unacceptable.
Things worked out in our case, we were lucky. But I fully expect that in the coming years a lot of COVID horror stories are going to come out, the worst of which will be black people trapped in their homes in fear of anarchist riots that, they are told by very nice, smiling, and deeply evil people, were for their own benefit.
Whoa.
Wait up.
In your case, people didn’t disappear?
So…yay?
For the rest of us, we were told that the people who did disappear was because of racism, inequality, etc. It had less to do with actual viral contraction and everything to do with wealth, class, and disparities,
The AMA was originally racist. Antiracism is taking it back to its roots:
Back to its roots here, too: for many years it purged practitioners it disagreed with. Harris Coulter’s Divided Legacy, Volume II: Science and Ethics in American Medicine covers the AMA’s founding.
The AMA used its code of “ethics” to eliminate economic competitors until the 1980s.
The AMA used its political influence to “contain and eliminate” the practice of chiropractic (the phrase came from an internal AMA document detailing its plans.) Its local affiliates would strip physicians of their hospital privileges for any professional cooperation with “unscientific” practitioners.
In California, it took a ballot initiative to establish chiropractic licensure.
In addition to the AMA, you have some medical schools doing the Woke Media – University of Pittsburgh Medial school has a whole new “woke medicine” push.
So if the AMA is determined to do whatever it takes to get these numbers up to 15% – which I assume is severely and immediately lower all the standards – then that means that afterward any rational person would be very suspicious of any black doctor they see, knowing that the chances are 1 in 2 that he couldn’t make it into medical school. Way to go, AMA!
I think the AMA should be required to describe all the things they have been doing and advocating up til now that are so racist. All the black people they have denied admittance. In this day and age.
Let’s come clean, AMA, I’m really curious about exactly what problem are we trying to solve here.
Given the disparity in lifespan and incidence of health problems related to income and given the statistically higher incidence of low income among minorities, shouldn’t hospitals be achieving more equal outcomes by race by letting some white people die? Shouldn’t our more woke legislatures establish an affirmative defence in medical malpractice cases such that withholding treatment for equitable reasons bars recovery for negligent care? Or perhaps a white privilege tax until such disparities are eliminated.
I think this is what’s being referred to. This is the extent of his WrongSpeak as far as I know.
“Structural racism is an unfortunate term,” Dr. Edward Livingston, another editor at JAMA, said in the podcast, according to the New York Times. “Personally, I think taking racism out of the conversation will help. Many people like myself are offended by the implication that we are somehow racist.”
Or maybe it’s time for the Obamacare “death panels” to have jurisdiction everywhere. At the rate things are proceeding, Sarah Palin may get to see them before she passes from this world.
OK, boomer, ask and ye shall receive:
They’re institutionalizing and systematizing it:
Morse writes:
In low-income areas, up to 40% of doctors are foreign-born. That is a whole different demographic.
Thanks.
Amazing.
This was, most specifically, what I was indicating would happen if we granted the wishes of BLM and other organizations who indicate specific racial preference in treatment and level of care.
Less that 20% of American doctors are members of the AMA.
Race-based quotas for admission into medical schools, I suppose.
And race-based scoring on their board exams.
AMA guidelines for time allotted per patient visit:
Checked by a licensed physician:
black women — 30 minutes
black men – 25 minutes
Latino women – 20 minutes
Latino men – 15 minutes
Checked by a nurse practitioner:
Asian women – 20 minutes
Asian men – 15 minutes
white women – 10 minutes
white men – 5 minutes
Note: gay people get 5 minutes added to their visit time; transgenders merit an extra 10 minutes
This is strange, counter-productive and legally hazardous to put in writing, and unethical. Just out of curiosity, where did you get this?
From a woke revelation that I recently experienced.
And yet, they continue to be the advisors of record when the CDC or hospital administrators come a-knockin’.