Gosh, there has to be some reason this institution is discriminating in favor of persons with a superficial, unrelated attribute over those who show the greatest potential for success. Whatever could it be? It must be something that will alter the overall healthcare outcomes for the population as a whole. Whatever could it be? Oh wait! It's because they want us dead. And they want the DEI Doctors to kill us.
I have to ask, and feel free to chastise me roundly for it: Am I the only one who now wonders if the people I'm dealing with are DEI hires? Everyone who isn't an "Obvious Oppressor"? Yes, I know exactly what I'm saying. DEI has NOT elevated us.
Perhaps this DEI nonsense in the medical profession would be eliminated if it were to be required that all DEI-sponsored medical students, residents, and "doctors" were obligated to treat only those within their own DEI classification.
DEI doesn't just disappear with the stroke of a pen on an EO - it will just go underground. We managed to get a Conservative majority on our school board after a 3 year battle, and the DEI contracts are going away, but the ideology is still there, especially from the administration. And it shapeshifts. One was effort was called 'Belonging in a Culture of Dignity" - but the tenets are not much different.
I entered medical school in 1974. It had literally taken me 4 years of applying and reapplying and hours of nail biting as I waited to see if I would be accepted. It was a very competitive process and I was rejected by so many schools that I began to wonder if this was the path the God intended for me. In fact, one school that I had applied to no less than 3 years straight wrote back to me and point blank told me to never apply again because I had been rejected 3 times and, like in baseball, three strikes and I was out. Their loss I thought. I finally was given an interview at the Kansas City College of Osteopathic Medicine. The first question that I was asked was, "do you know why you are here for this interview"? I answered something to the effect, "I would sincerely hope that after reviewing my application, under graduate transcripts, MCAT scores along with the letters of recommendation and personal statement that you believed that I was the type of candidate that you were interested in". They sort of laughed and said while that was true, the biggest reason was that I was a such a pain in the ass because I called weekly to speak to the dean of admissions to see what the status of my application was. They said that I had dotted all of the i's and crossed all of he t's academically and that my personal letter and letters of recommendation were fine but the deciding factor to granting the interview was to see who the hell was this pain in the ass that called week after week ad nauseum. I simply told them what is the worst thing that you could have said? The squeaky wheel gets all of the grease. I guess that is all out of the window now. I suppose today I would have been passed over and rejected not because I wasn't academically capable but because I was just too conventional and traditional in my thinking. So academia be damned.
It has been replaced by diversity (non conformity), equity (not academic acumen but quotas and inclusiveness (at the expense of discrimination against orthodoxy). I hope that I don't get sick enough to need a doctor. I used to tell my patients that the goal is to die healthy at a ripe old age. Anyone can die being chronically ill, the real trick is to die at a ripe old age healthy to the end.
Damn pushed the send button too quick not advocacy please, efficacy.
Older doctors who keep up and have young minds are the very best. Try to find one. Don’t let someone just out of residency operate on you without mentoring or supervision by partners unless it is for a hangnail.
The ACGME may want to continue its racist DEI programs, but the President's Executive Order states that any organization that engages inDEI will be ineligible for federal grant funding. Although ACGME is primarily funded by the medical schools it accredits, those schools will be ineligible for any grant funding if they have DEI programs. Many medical schools receive hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funds each year, and don't think they will want to give it up. So unless the courts mandate DEI in medical schools, the supply of DEI medical school graduates should decline and the medical profession may be saved from its own "social justice" cult.
Gosh, there has to be some reason this institution is discriminating in favor of persons with a superficial, unrelated attribute over those who show the greatest potential for success. Whatever could it be? It must be something that will alter the overall healthcare outcomes for the population as a whole. Whatever could it be? Oh wait! It's because they want us dead. And they want the DEI Doctors to kill us.
I have to ask, and feel free to chastise me roundly for it: Am I the only one who now wonders if the people I'm dealing with are DEI hires? Everyone who isn't an "Obvious Oppressor"? Yes, I know exactly what I'm saying. DEI has NOT elevated us.
You are not the only one.
This downward slide started long ago with "affirmative action."
It is most often obvious incompetence coupled with arrogance that raises this red flag.
These programs do not bring us together. They paint with a broad brush. Discrimination breeds discrimination. Sad really.
Perhaps this DEI nonsense in the medical profession would be eliminated if it were to be required that all DEI-sponsored medical students, residents, and "doctors" were obligated to treat only those within their own DEI classification.
DEI doesn't just disappear with the stroke of a pen on an EO - it will just go underground. We managed to get a Conservative majority on our school board after a 3 year battle, and the DEI contracts are going away, but the ideology is still there, especially from the administration. And it shapeshifts. One was effort was called 'Belonging in a Culture of Dignity" - but the tenets are not much different.
I entered medical school in 1974. It had literally taken me 4 years of applying and reapplying and hours of nail biting as I waited to see if I would be accepted. It was a very competitive process and I was rejected by so many schools that I began to wonder if this was the path the God intended for me. In fact, one school that I had applied to no less than 3 years straight wrote back to me and point blank told me to never apply again because I had been rejected 3 times and, like in baseball, three strikes and I was out. Their loss I thought. I finally was given an interview at the Kansas City College of Osteopathic Medicine. The first question that I was asked was, "do you know why you are here for this interview"? I answered something to the effect, "I would sincerely hope that after reviewing my application, under graduate transcripts, MCAT scores along with the letters of recommendation and personal statement that you believed that I was the type of candidate that you were interested in". They sort of laughed and said while that was true, the biggest reason was that I was a such a pain in the ass because I called weekly to speak to the dean of admissions to see what the status of my application was. They said that I had dotted all of the i's and crossed all of he t's academically and that my personal letter and letters of recommendation were fine but the deciding factor to granting the interview was to see who the hell was this pain in the ass that called week after week ad nauseum. I simply told them what is the worst thing that you could have said? The squeaky wheel gets all of the grease. I guess that is all out of the window now. I suppose today I would have been passed over and rejected not because I wasn't academically capable but because I was just too conventional and traditional in my thinking. So academia be damned.
It has been replaced by diversity (non conformity), equity (not academic acumen but quotas and inclusiveness (at the expense of discrimination against orthodoxy). I hope that I don't get sick enough to need a doctor. I used to tell my patients that the goal is to die healthy at a ripe old age. Anyone can die being chronically ill, the real trick is to die at a ripe old age healthy to the end.
Damn pushed the send button too quick not advocacy please, efficacy.
Older doctors who keep up and have young minds are the very best. Try to find one. Don’t let someone just out of residency operate on you without mentoring or supervision by partners unless it is for a hangnail.
The ACGME may want to continue its racist DEI programs, but the President's Executive Order states that any organization that engages inDEI will be ineligible for federal grant funding. Although ACGME is primarily funded by the medical schools it accredits, those schools will be ineligible for any grant funding if they have DEI programs. Many medical schools receive hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funds each year, and don't think they will want to give it up. So unless the courts mandate DEI in medical schools, the supply of DEI medical school graduates should decline and the medical profession may be saved from its own "social justice" cult.
Older doctors like older appliances are best for basically the same reasons. Reliability, predictability advocacy.
Their logic has none!