Think Journalism is Full of Liberals? Healthcare is Rapidly Winning That War
It was November of 2014. In my previous life as a Pharmacy Technician, I had just started a new job at one of the largest area hospitals where I live. I was very excited. It had a great reputation, and even though I was working towards one day getting out of healthcare, I still had bills to pay. November of 2014 was also roughly three months after the Ferguson, Missouri riots following the death of Michael Brown, and emotions were still pretty raw. After the dreaded first day, I began to settle into my new workplace. Everyone was very nice and eager to show me the ropes. One day, as I was training with one of my new coworkers, we were talking, and the subject turned to the Michael Brown case, and more broadly, politics. What I learned was that many of my new coworkers were, like myself, conservative. But while those who were not right-leaning, and the majority of my new black coworkers felt perfectly comfortable voicing their political opinions, including those about the Brown case, those who were conservative, felt the exact opposite. They were intimidated not to share their opinions and often ridiculed when they did. It was as if they were forced into some secret society, some medical version of “Friends of Abe.”
Healthcare was once a conservative to moderate set of specialties to go into. After all, you will be treating people from all walks of life. It should be one of the few places where, if you discuss politics or religion, you will still be treated fairly. And if it is not in a healthcare work environment, where if you are a conservative, you keep it to yourself, it most certainly is in the nation’s medical schools and healthcare facilities. Stanford political scientist Adam Bonica and colleagues have been researching the transition from right to left taking place in the American Healthcare field for the last 20 years. Their data show that overall, the medical profession has gone from 60 percent Republican or right-leaning to 80 percent Democrat or left-leaning. In fact, Bonica’s data from 2019 showed that physician political contributions have leaned more and more Democrat since the 1990s. The examples begin almost from the time a student decides to apply to medical school. A potential medical student had better have their left-wing talking points memorized to perfection if they even want to get past the interview stage of the process. If one manages to get their interview right, then it’s on to the mandatory diversity statement now required by many medical schools. Diversity statement? What the hell is that? One’s diversity statement is practically more important than one’s academic record, extracurricular activities, and anything else you might put on a resume to impress. It states what your accomplishments in the now necessary areas of diversity, equity, and inclusion are, and what you might hope to accomplish in these areas in your career. Wait, you thought you were going into medicine to help people regardless of who they were? Think again, a colorblind society, how last century.
In America’s medical schools, it is not anatomy, chemistry, or physiology that is the order of the day, it is white supremacy, transgender ideology, and critical race theory (CRT). Recently, an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medical Education at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, let that sink in, was a guest lecturer at the University of California-San Francisco. He told a roughly 300-member audience that white people were racist because they are genetically predisposed to psychopathy. Think that is a one-off? Another professor of medicine and, Vice President of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, sent out an email declaring that certain monikers like “white,” “male,” and “Christian” are essentially, sure signs that you are evil. She was forced to not only issue an apology but was forced to delete her X account. Last November, the American Psychiatric Association published a textbook entitled, “Gender-Affirming Psychiatric Care.” The book declares “scientific neutrality is a fallacy,” and criticizes the “mythical man-woman binary.” See where this is going yet?
The people who will be entrusted in the future with your health will know far more about diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) than they will about your health. That’s because, for the leftists that now run America’s medical schools, DEI is not only job one but also a religion, much like climate change. It is all that matters. Being aware of which group has the most enjoyed victimhood status, is more important than being adept at medical procedures associated with your specialty. And if you hold any beliefs other than the accepted ones at your particular institution, well, if you want to further, much less even start your career, you had better keep them to yourself. Even if you think it might be a question of patient safety, and in the case of patient safety, it all depends on what that patient looks like.
Which brings us to this chilling morbid question. If the state of the medical profession continues down this road, how long before we begin to triage medical care based on race and ethnicity? It was attempted during the COVID pandemic. While who gets a vaccine is important during a pandemic, how long until it translates into other areas like heart surgery, medications for various diseases, or treatment for chronic conditions, all in the name of “equity?” Speaking of surgery, will future surgeons have more training in actual surgery or DEI? Will “official” information or positions be allowed to be questioned, or will, like those physicians who questioned COVID protocol be silenced? It is probably a pretty safe bet, that most Americans do not care what the doctor looks like, they care that he or she can keep them healthy. As for conservative healthcare workers, it is also a safe bet that you are not alone in your workplace and that there are plenty of other medical “Friends of Abe” all around you.