The American Medical Association and their Health Equity Guide
Here is the link to the new AMA Health Equity Guide. What is equity? Well, here is their “preamble” from the guide:
Preamble
The field of equity, like all other scholarly domains, has developed specific norms that convey authenticity, precision and meaning. Just as the general structure of a business document varies from that of a physics document, so too is the case with an equity document. One example is the inclusion of a “Land and Labor Acknowledgement” like the one below. It is common that discussions in the field of equity begin with the recognition that our current state is built on the land and labor of others in ways that violated the fundamental principles of equity.
What the living f%ck does the above mean?
Please take a look at the document. And let’s keep this conversation civil.
Personally, I would LOVE it if healthcare was AFFORDABLE and ACCESSIBLE for everyone. It is not. Who is to blame? Well, that is why this blog exists and we have been arguing this for 20 years!
I believe the government, insurance companies, big hospital corporations, and a bunch more are to blame. And I would love for us all to work on dismantling them.
But how does this help? (see quote below)
Doctors should not say “Low-income people have the highest level of coronary artery disease in the United States.”
Instead, doctors should phrase the same idea like this: “People underpaid and forced into poverty as a result of banking policies, real estate developers gentrifying neighborhoods, and corporations weakening the power of labor movements, among others, have the highest level of coronary artery disease.”
or
Instead of using “How can we promote healthy behavior?” we should use “How can we democratize land use policies through greater public participation to ensure healthy living conditions?”
So all people are FORCED into poverty? We need to EMPOWER labor movements more? We should democratize land use policies in order for someone to become healthy?
These discussions belong in political debates. But NOW the AMA thinks that there is no debate and is telling all doctors to change or else.
Thanks, AMA, for all your help.
I believe it is fair to say that CRT is EXTREMELY controversial in this country. Both political parties would agree on that. Yet, the AMA jumped right in. Wow.
Even better, the AMA, with this guide, has created new agendas for medical schools to add to their curriculum. Why? Well, those schools will want to seem hip and socially responsible. They will have to adopt it and force students to learn it. Of course, when you add one thing you must subtract other things (like nephrology, ophthalmology, etc).
Will the medical schools wait for proof that the terms in this guide have evidence of their worth? Nope.
They will ALL jump on this immediately.
You heard it here first.
I THINK IT IS TIME WE DISMANTLE THE AMA. What do you think?
(Please do NOT make this into a debate on the hotbed issue of CRT. I will not get into that. This is about the AMA only. I would say the same about the AMA if they decided to jump in on religion or border walls or whatever).
I bailed on them when they backed the ACA. I knew then they were self-serving orifices of ani who were undeserving of my support (or money).
The same organizations that promote “health equity” (AMA, AAFP), also push so-called “value-based payment” schemes which punish physicians who dare to provide care to those with difficult social circumstances.
Go figure.
Most doctors who worked in the trenches know that drug use and teenage pregnancy lead to poverty. And many of the individuals in poverty from these decisions started in middle class families. Often it is bad choices, not bad luck.
The banking quote if true, sounds like something from Maos little red book. It is pure Marxist rhetoric. I suppose the AMA leadership and academic centers will limit their salaries to 100k
All I have to say is “AMA, dissolve yourself immediately and stop playing these incredibly ignorant political BS games.”
But seriously, the medical schools will start hiring numerous Diversity and Equity Directors, with salaries of 200K and up. And each school will need 15.
It is amazing the speed with which organizations, big and small, are jumping into this cesspool.
The ass-kissing to the Negro race is beyond all reason. Beyond.
I don’t own slaves. They weren’t slaves. Yet the leftists at the top of organizations deem this necessary. How sick is our culture.
All I have to say is Let’s Go AMA!