By William Harvey, M.D.
The American College of Surgeons (ACS), founded in 1912, recently sent its members an email with its Report of Recommendations by its Task Force on Racial Issues. Fresh off the press in November 2020, the report opened with this phrase, “Following the killing of George Floyd” — the holy year zero. Even surgery is now connected to George Floyd. The report recommended an “Office of Diversity” and a “Regental Committee,” along with ten other “Critical Enabling Habits.” The ACS then created a “Diversity Pillar,” one of five pillars of the ACS, to be addressed by a Board of Governors Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Initiatives Workgroup and a Surgical Workforce Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Workgroup. The Society of Thoracic Surgeons, a specialty group founded in 1963 that includes heart surgeons, has undertaken similar initiatives.
As a practicing cardiovascular surgeon for 25 years and member of both organizations, I look with deep regret upon the embrace of woke ideology and obsession with skin color. It will lead, I suspect, to diminished membership appeal and prestige, a distracted focus and mission, and less respect for surgical heritage, in time, in both organizations. The elite surgical leaders, working within academia, have ignored the surgical majority in the ACS who do not support this political dogma or identity politics in general.
As a kind of secular religion, woke ideology dictates that a person (in this case, a surgeon or a patient) is considered not as an individual, but rather as a member of a group, a category, based on skin color or sex or both. Woke ideologues reduce all persons in society, it seems, to the simple binary categories of white and non-white skin color, which are defined further as oppressor and victim groups, respectively. A person as an individual becomes irrelevant. more
Dang, I guess it will not be long before they issue a bulletin that tells the heart surgeons not to do surgery on me (old, white, male. Preferred pronouns: His Majesty, Your Majesty. Just saying)
Great, instead of abiding by the Hippocratic Oath the Woke-ters will be abiding by the HippoCritical Race Theory.
Yes it going to set us back into a new form of extreme racism and societal division.
I sure hope I wake up soon….
Inquiring minds want to know: Will the family of a White man killed by an inexperienced, but “woke” doctor recieve a 27 million dollar settlement?
Ans: Fuuuuuck no!!
Medical error already accounts for the 4th largest number of deaths on a yearly basis in this county! Maybe the medical profession wants to be #1!
This was the way Nazis suppressed Germany in the thirties.
Toe the Party line or be disenfranchised.
It worked then, it’s working now. Cowardice knows no bounds. Once you’ve submitted to suck a dick, you’re a dick sucker. And that’s all there is to it.
izlamo delenda est …
Even more now.
I heard that the National Association Of Toilet Scrubbers (NATS) has joined ranks with the woke.
There must be a lot of money these groups get from the govt. to give in to leftist ideology.
Probably the Obiden puppet masters demanded it.
It’s the insurance industry (which includes Medical-Care), pure and simple….and the doctors ain’t gonna leave that gravy train….
This SHIT will continue ONLY as long as we allow it.
Woke surgery looks like this: you’re wheeled into the operating room and see someone as dumb as obama is your surgeon.
Looks like I’m lucky to have lived through my heart attack last year as all this shit was ramping up.
It’s high time all of those not infected with woke bullshit start practicing Critical Democrat Theory and applying it universally and broadly.
It’s not a problem when Jamal lef his wallet in El Segundo, but what happens when he lefs it in a patient?
The reason I HAVEN’T trusted ANY doctor, since Der Kommissar ObamassarKare came into being. 😡 :mad 😡
I intend to die in the age of 💩bamaKare. I want to see who resurrects me first; the 💩bamessiah, or the TRUE Messiah.
MY money’s on the latter…