Worse than you can imagine.
As another example of the generation gap, an ER doctor on the West Coast said he sees providers, particularly younger ones, applying antiracist principles in choosing how they allocate their time and which patients they choose to work with. “I’ve heard examples of Covid-19 cases in the emergency department where providers go, ‘I’m not going to go treat that white guy, I’m going to treat the person of color instead because whatever happened to the white guy, he probably deserves it.’”
Go here to read the rest. When doctors are determining medical treatment on the basis of race, we are confronting a full blown totalitarian movement eager to impose a racial caste system on our country for the purpose of Leftist domination and too many brain washed young people are all in favor of it.
When will the day come when “enough is enough”? Hopefully soon. Hopefully beginning at the next year’s election.
Who is enforcing this? Hospital administrators, who work for superordinate administrators (commonly university presidents). These, in turn, work for boards. And the boards’ excuses are just what?
What we’re looking at is a widespread culture shift amongst our professional-managerial segment, one in which the best lack all conviction and the worst are filled with passionate intensity. It’s reinforced by the usual bad actors in law and politics, of course. Take those bad actors out of action, and you still have a problem. This will not end well.
Historically, hasn’t the medical profession had a problem with some doctors having such outsized egos that they come down with god complexes? Dr. god. That the medical knowledge that they have makes them ubermensch. That they forget the humanity of their patients and have questionable bedside manners, which is at the heart of the last two comments in the article.
Joke told me by a nurse:
Don, what is the difference between God and a surgeon? God knows He isn’t a surgeon.
Historically, hasn’t the medical profession had a problem with some doctors having such outsized egos that they come down with god complexes?
Never met a doctor like that, and I used to work in a hospital.
The problem I’ve run into is that the doctor’s day is consumed with administrative work that really should be done by clerical staff or clerical staff with some extended training. You’ve got people who’ve had a 230-credit dose of schooling followed by three years of residency, followed by two years of fellowship, its quite socially suboptimal to have them doing data entry with electronic medical records designed to please IT people and not medical professionals. In my encounters with the system of medical care, I had little reason to complain about doctors. It was half-assed nursing and negligent and ill-trained clerks who were the problem. A great deal of that was (I’m going to wager) the result of supervisors of indifferent quality.
This from the AMA Journal of Ethics… https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/obligation-provide-services-physician-public-defender-comparison/2006-05
“Justice dictates that physicians provide care to all who need it, and it is illegal for a physician to refuse services based on race, ethnicity, gender, religion, or sexual orientation.”
So based on this legal duty of care, the physicians personal beliefs on whether they “like” a person of a particular race, religion etc…does not legally allow the physician to pick and choose which patients they treat. The journal states also that a physician cannot refuse treatment of a person who they feel they cannot cure because of this care over cure duty issue. And furthermore (by this reasoning, which article doesn’t address) it goes to follow that they cannot refuse treatment of a person who has committed a crime (ie. a person shoots up a school and kills a dozen kids, and gets shot by police but doesn’t die- they must treat the perpetrator)….but…read further in the article and this same reasoning can be flipped to extend to abortion- but this is where it gets murky- if a physician is personally opposed to abortion, there is no legal requirement for that physician to carry out an abortion under the law. But I stand to be corrected.
Nevertheless, the most important point is a physician cannot choose to treat a patient or not based on their discriminatory personal beliefs of the patients “race, ethnicity, gender, religion or sexual orientation..” There surely would be grounds to ban the said doctor from practicing medicine (if the patient proved it..)
https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2021/06/04/yale-hosted-a-psychiatrist-lecture-on-the-psychopathic-problem-of-the-white-mind-n394612
With all the deplatforming going on, let’s have a gander at whose invitations do not get rescinded at Yale.