Laura L. Morgan – WSJ Sept 30, 2022
College Station, Texas
I was fired from my nursing job this year for refusing to take “implicit bias” training. After 39 years of providing equal care to all my patients without regard to their race, I objected to a mandatory course grounded in the idea that I’m racist because I’m white. I fear every healthcare professional will soon be forced to make the same awful decision I did: Falsely admit to being racist or abandon the medical field.
My ordeal started in September 2021 when my employer, Dallas-based Baylor Scott & White Health, rolled out its annual training modules for clinical educators. The list included “Overcoming Unconscious Bias.” After viewing the interactive course, I contacted my supervisor and asked for a meeting with the chief nursing officer and the human resources director. The former sent a surrogate; the latter didn’t attend. After two meetings, it was clear that I wouldn’t be given an exemption. My supervisor told me, “I don’t want you to die on this cross.”
But I did. The idea of implicit bias is grounded in the belief that white people treat those who aren’t white worse than those who are. It’s part of the woke assumption that society, including healthcare, suffers from “systemic racism.” Accordingly, my own supposed implicit bias, which is a euphemism for ingrained racism, must be rooted out. Not only that, it must be replaced with preferential treatment for the nonwhite. I fail to see how real racial discrimination is justified by my nonexistent racism.
I knew it was coming, but I was still devastated when I was fired in February. I went from a six-figure job to zero income. The day I was fired I sold my car to make sure I’d have enough money to live on. When I tried to find a new healthcare job, no one would hire me. No doubt if they contacted my old employer, they were told why I was let go.
States are increasingly requiring implicit-bias training as a condition for obtaining medical and nursing licenses. As of July, the Kentucky Board of Nursing requires that all registered nurses take a continuing-education course on implicit bias. In July, as a journalistic exercise, I paid $5 and signed up for the recommended course, created by the Kentucky Nurses Association. Nurses are told that “implicit bias kills,” and that white privilege is a “covert” form of racism. The course walks nurses through their possible contributions to “modern-day lynchings in the workplace.”
In June, Michigan started requiring all professional-license holders to take two hours of implicit-bias training. That’s everyone from doctors and nurses to dentists and counselors. The training must be taken at every license renewal, which sends the message that racism is essentially permanent and incurable. Massachusetts also mandated implicit-bias training for doctors in June, connecting doctors’ supposed racism to lower-quality care for minority patients. Maryland will enact its rule for “all healthcare practitioners” on Oct. 1.
No state board of medicine or nursing provides sufficient evidence to support the claim that all white people are implicitly biased, and there’s plenty of scholarly research that shows that implicit-bias testing is flawed. Policy makers don’t seem to be considering the unintended consequences of these mandates. Accusing my peers and me of racism will contribute to soaring levels of burnout, causing many to leave the medical profession. Some, like me, will surely be forced out. Patients, especially minorities, will experience the most harm. Their caregivers are being told to admit to unconscious racism. Why would you see a physician who supposedly hates you and will hurt your health?
More state mandates are surely on the way, including in red states. Most state medical associations, which exert a powerful influence over policy, have bought in to the belief that their own members are racist. The Texas Nurses Association declares the existence of “racial biases in healthcare” and supports implicit-bias training for nurses. The national Federation of State Medical Boards urges state boards to take a bigger role in addressing the “systemic racism and structural inequities” that it says are “embedded” in American healthcare.
Before I was fired, I wrote the following to the leadership of Baylor Scott & White Health: “Treating patients, coworkers, family members, and my superiors in a fair and respectful manner is the practice I have subscribed to during my entire 39-year nursing career.” The same is true of most of the medical professionals I’ve worked with. No one—not me, my peers or our patients—will be better off if more states call us liars and racists.
Ms. Morgan is a registered nurse and program manager at Do No Harm
There is harassment in the NHS but it all comes from higher management
they need to fulfil target figures
most nursing staff work had to get on with colleaugues
only the Royal mail has more managerial harassment sexually racially and politically
in both cases it come from the very top
She was on a 6 figure salary at the end of 39 years and she had to sell her car when fired? On that salary, she must have millions after 39 years (even with it being much less at the start). I don’t believe the statement that she had to sell her car in order to afford to live. Why? She was getting more per year than I’ve ever had in my life. Either she’s a cronic gambler or something doesn’t add up.
In regard to Ms Morgan,
“You are by no means alone”.
I realised I never ‘fit in’ even as a youngster, Not that I wanted to, based on what was going on around me. (even back then).
That aside, since all this silly bollocks has taken off big time, I’m now well satisfied I’m different,
I suppose in the overall scheme of things, I’m (we are) Lucky.
Ms Morgan’s story, is just ANOTHER confirmation of the utter evil & insanity that is all prevalent right now.
Beware of the savages when going to hospital for treatment. I recently broke three vertebrae, many ribs, ripped most of my back and stomach muscles and bite through my tongue. I was afraid to go to sleep. Several times I clocked them sneaking up with the Jew jab in hand even after I’d made it very clear that can xxxx off with it. Apparently the blacks treating me didn’t understand basic English like “that’s dirty you ain’t putting that anywhere near me”. But understood me mumbling (very quietly) dirty black c**t.
“Anymore racism from you mr Duggan and we won’t treat you”. Grabbed a wheelchair and left. Dirty bastards.
White Privilege and White Supremacy are the new Original Sin but this time with an unhidden bias towards the stupid, crooked, ugly foreigners, which is what the organisers of it are. They belong back in Asia robbing travellers
Creating this system of “targets” was always a get-out clause for the politicians who are ultimately responsible for failure. Knowing they’re going to short-change a public institution like the NHS, education or the courts, they created a target system. Then when the money allotted isn’t enough and the system fails ie. the targets aren’t met, they blame the underlings they made responsible to meet those targets.
Mark Duggan next time take a gun wrapped in a sock it always works
Lil maybe it was just to expensive to keep on the road
it is like stalinist communism :
you have to follow the party line
otherwise you get a witch court
and you are out . it is exactly jewish
communism !
My spouse and I are retired….tail end of Boomers,….and our children are in their 30’s
I can’t imagine having to be caught up in this LibTard “self hating white” Commie crap….I really feel for those caught up in this.
That said..I’m ready to rock and roll and fight the good fight..honouring our ancestors sacrifices.
“Overcoming Unconscious Bias.”, “implicit bias”, “systemic racism”, what sniveling horse shit. Whatever useless sack of pig puke is in charge of “diversity, equity, and inclusion” for that confederacy of shit-stains otherwise known as Baylor Scott & White “Health” should be dragged up the stairs by their ankles to the roof, then shoved off.
“Unconscious bias” is a natural defense mechanism, like intuition or someone making the hair on the back of your neck stand up. Disregard it at your peril.
As for “systemic racism”, what the do blacks expect when 90% of their people are actually much worse than worthless? Blacks should expect to be looked upon with disgust and disdain as long as the large majority of them continue to be nothing but agents of degradation and destruction, savage street simians, rape apes,and subhuman sacks of sewage, which will be until doomsday since that race has had thousands of years to get their shit together to even the most minimal standard of civilized society and just can’t figure it the f*ck out. Same with the f*cking Jews.
Political correctness is a malignant cancer; it is the enemy of truth and the enemy of freedom.
This is huge:
US MILITARY WHISTLEBLOWER DR THERESA LONG EXPOSES MASSIVE POST-VAX SPIKE IN SERIOUS ISSUES & COVERUP
https://WWW.BITCHUTE.COM/VIDEO/INRJDSHZ0DWO/
Everyone needs to wake up….it’s Jews who are doing this to the world. Hitler as the good guy, not the evil guy. Time to wake up…..Jews are evil by their very natures. Abraham, who Jews descend from, was a person who committed incest, had his wife commit adultery, lied to every single person he met or came into contact with including his own son and all his servants. He was the biggest coward in world history afraid of other men want to kill him to be with his wife, who is his sister. He also agreed to murder his own son. Abraham has got to be the most disgusting person you could possibly find on planet Earth. The god who called Abraham is Lucifer, it’s everyone else that belongs to God and Jews belong to Lucifer…..It’s Jews causing all the evil in this world…..including gang stalking me for over 3 years within the USA…..David Kuvelas…..God’s Witness
There are ignorant or dimwitted people in all races, and a small percentage of them who are very bright. That said, being smart doesn’t always mean they are ethical or devoted to mankind. The bible says there are none who are good, not one. I’m always amazed with those who say that mankind is basically good when dictators have murdered millions and inhuman actions to humans are well documented. The smart and talented ones long ago figured out how to entertain the masses and control information to the public. The US has the most censored network news of any country with the exception of dictatorships. Many topics are off limits to the general public unless they find them on sites like this. There exists a large group of elites who want to eliminate most of us through wars, famine, riots, pestilence, and calamities of one sort or another. You watch many of them on TV.