Would You Want a Woke Arts Graduate Type to Operate on You? By Mrs Vera West
This item is from Canada, which is in an even more advanced state of woke decline and post-truth in medicine than Australia, which is hard to believe after the Covid plandemic here. But a woke working group of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada has proposed that doctors should be concerned more with social justice and anti-racism politics than medical expertise and knowledge. Changes to medical training will “afford us the opportunity to think critically and propose a vision for the practice of medicine which is rooted in social justice, anti-racism, anti-oppression and cultural safety, promoting a broader cultural shift which is necessary for the profession.” The reason for this is racism, racism racism, everywhere. The new neo-Marxist model “would prioritize bidirectional relationships with patients, providers, communities, the land, the health system and society at large rather than the individual physician as a gatekeeper of professionalized knowledge. With this new model, we can reflect a stance of humility over hubris.”
All this is absurd, and it has not yet been accepted, but given Canada it may. It shows that the woke cultural Marxist agenda is well advanced in marching through medicine. And, if they do succeed, it would degenerate to the state anticipated in my title, that one gets operated upon by people who are no more than Arts type graduates who say the right things, but have little medical knowledge. It will be back to the witch doctors, only Left-wing ones.
If it can happen in Canada, it can happen in Australia as well.
“A working group under the auspices of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada believes training future doctors should concentrate more on social justice and anti-racism than “medical expertise.”
The idea was proposed by an anti-racism expert working group as a potential addition to CanMEDS, the framework for physician training slated for renewal in 2025. If implemented, it would elevate what is increasingly a destructive, divisive Marxist ideology over the Enlightenment ideals of science and reason.
As Dr. David Jacobs, president of the Ontario Association of Radiologists, tweeted so succinctly of the idea, “This is bonkers.”
CanMEDS is implemented throughout Canada by a consortium that includes the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, the College of Family Physicians of Canada, the Canadian Medical Association, the Medical Council of Canada and the Quebec College of Physicians, among others.
In its report, the anti-racism working group says it believes the 2025 framework for training future physicians “affords us the opportunity to think critically and propose a vision for the practice of medicine which is rooted in social justice, anti-racism, anti-oppression and cultural safety, promoting a broader cultural shift which is necessary for the profession.”
The medical profession and health system commit “structural violence” against marginalized people, according to the anti-racism working group’s report. Its authors proposed a disturbing social justice solution within the health system.
“A new model of CanMEDS would seek to centre values such as anti-oppression, anti-racism and social justice, rather than medical expertise,” it said.
One section of the report, titled “De-centering medical expertise,” called for a shift away from medical expertise to values such as anti-racism, anti-oppression, shared humanity and the ever more ubiquitous concept of decolonization.
The new system envisioned by the working group “would prioritize bidirectional relationships with patients, providers, communities, the land, the health system and society at large rather than the individual physician as a gatekeeper of professionalized knowledge. With this new model, we can reflect a stance of humility over hubris.”
How does one prioritize a bidirectional relationship with the land?
Regardless, the “humility over hubris” line signals the virtue of the caring and compassionate working group over all those haughty, prideful colleagues.
The report also included a section calling for recognition that the present had been impacted by historical power structures such as “white supremacy, heteropatriarchy and capitalism.”
In a statement to the National Post Sunday, Jacobs noted that most doctors were too busy to worry about the diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) agenda.
“In daily practice, (DEI) is barely given a nod. We are overwhelmed by the volume of patients that need care on a daily basis,” he said in his statement. “Our work has bled into our evenings and weekends leaving very little time to think about what seems to be both a political and academic exercise. You can imagine the chaos that would ensue if patients were queued based on perceived oppression as opposed to the acuity of their medical condition.”
DEI is trying to change medicine from a discipline that cares for patients to one that champions social justice causes, Jacobs added.
“The vast majority of physicians have entered the field in order to care for others,” he continued. “There is an abundance of empathy and kindness among my colleagues. (DEI) has tried to piggyback on these noble traits and impose a social justice agenda that is driven by only a handful of activist physicians.”
Jacobs said DEI was a divisive ideology that painted people as either victims or oppressors in order to rebalance power which focuses on “social justice and equity of outcomes as opposed to empathy and excellence of outcomes.”
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