{"id":247777,"date":"2022-01-01T08:46:50","date_gmt":"2022-01-01T08:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=247777"},"modified":"2022-01-02T09:50:13","modified_gmt":"2022-01-02T09:50:13","slug":"how-activists-are-hardwiring-race-marxism-into-the-medical-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=247777","title":{"rendered":"How Activists Are Hardwiring \u2018Race Marxism\u2019 Into The Medical Field"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Laurel Duggan \u2013 The Daily Caller Dec 24, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Activists in the medical field are urging doctors to prioritize patients on the basis of race to resolve racial disparities in health outcomes.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Doctors who question this practice or suggest that personal choices drive racial health disparities are punished and silenced.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The highest institutions of medical research, including organizations in the federal government, are pushing a radical, racist ideological takeover of medicine.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Biden administration proposed giving bonus payments to physicians who acknowledge systemic racism as the primary cause of health differences between racial groups and incorporate so-called \u201canti-racism\u201d into their medical practices.<\/p>\n<p>The move to <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/15\/anti-racism-medicare-bonus-critical-race-theory\/\">pressure healthcare professionals to repeat the claim<\/a> that racial health disparities are caused by racism and not lifestyle choices is part of a broader, years-long push to hardwire \u201crace Marxism\u201d into the medical field. The effort stretches from medical schools and research institutions to patient care and medical administration, with potentially devastating effects for patients and the healthcare system as a whole.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRace Marxism,\u201d analogous to \u201canti-racism\u201d as popularized by <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/08\/ibram-x-kendi-compares-criticism-critical-race-theory-kkk-segregation\/\">Ibram X. Kendi<\/a>, seeks to promote equal outcomes across racial groups, as opposed to a \u201ccolorblind\u201d approach which favors equal opportunity and does not take race into account.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Erica Li, a pediatrician, told the Daily Caller News Foundation that \u201crace Marxism\u201d \u2014 a phrase for which she does not take credit \u2014 pits \u201cclasses\u201d of people against each other on the basis of race, gender or sexuality rather than economic class, as classical Marxism did.<\/p>\n<p>The ideology\u2019s newfound popularity caused a frenzy in the medical community in 2020 as doctors, researchers, medical schools and other medical institutions sought to infuse \u201canti-racist\u201d practices into their work.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>PATIENT CARE<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Doctors and medical institutions are questioning how they allocate limited resources in crisis situations in light of unequal health outcomes for different racial groups. Specifically, some medical professionals have advocated for prioritizing black and Latino patients on the basis of race when rationing limited, life-saving medical resources.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">1\/2 Good to know ppl are reading excellent <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Sw2yKdsaR5\">https:\/\/t.co\/Sw2yKdsaR5<\/a> Note: 1) never espoused race-only prioritization; 2) Key: many 65+ can live socially distanced safely, w relatively less inconvenience until vax.  But far more among essential workers can\u2019t, esp frontline workers.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Harald Schmidt (@harald_tweets) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/harald_tweets\/status\/1340006217293451272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 18, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>When deciding which groups would receive the first vaccines, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommended prioritizing essential workers over the elderly \u2014 despite the elderly facing higher risk of death from COVID-19 \u2014 in order to be more racially equitable (the elderly tend to be more white while essential workers tend to be less white, demographically), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/science\/story\/2020-12-30\/how-race-factors-into-decisions-about-who-should-get-priority-for-covid-19-vaccines\">according<\/a> to the Los Angeles Times.<\/p>\n<p>The CDC walked back the suggestions after public outcry, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aei.org\/research-products\/journal-publication\/do-no-harm-critical-race-theory-and-medicine\/\">according<\/a> to Dr. Sally Satel, but Vermont explicitly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/united-states\/2021\/04\/11\/vermonts-race-based-vaccine-policy-raises-legal-questions\">granted<\/a> vaccine priority on the basis of race to non-white households before the general public became eligible. The vaccination rate for white residents (33%) had been outpacing that of non-white residents (20%); Republican Governor Phil Scott <a href=\"https:\/\/governor.vermont.gov\/press-release\/statement-governor-phil-scott-about-racist-response-efforts-vaccinate-vermont%E2%80%99s-bipoc\">said<\/a> this gap was unacceptable at the time.<\/p>\n<p>When deciding which groups would receive the first vaccines, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommended prioritizing essential workers over the elderly \u2014 despite the elderly facing higher risk of death from COVID-19 \u2014 in order to be more racially equitable (the elderly tend to be more white while essential workers tend to be less white, demographically), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/science\/story\/2020-12-30\/how-race-factors-into-decisions-about-who-should-get-priority-for-covid-19-vaccines\">according<\/a> to the Los Angeles Times.<\/p>\n<p>The CDC walked back the suggestions after public outcry, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aei.org\/research-products\/journal-publication\/do-no-harm-critical-race-theory-and-medicine\/\">according<\/a> to Dr. Sally Satel, but Vermont explicitly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/united-states\/2021\/04\/11\/vermonts-race-based-vaccine-policy-raises-legal-questions\">granted<\/a> vaccine priority on the basis of race to non-white households before the general public became eligible. The vaccination rate for white residents (33%) had been outpacing that of non-white residents (20%); Republican Governor Phil Scott <a href=\"https:\/\/governor.vermont.gov\/press-release\/statement-governor-phil-scott-about-racist-response-efforts-vaccinate-vermont%E2%80%99s-bipoc\">said<\/a> this gap was unacceptable at the time.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We should always evaluate the risks and benefits of efforts to control the virus. In this moment the public health risks of not protesting to demand an end to systemic racism greatly exceed the harms of the virus. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/s9DagyjQ1J\">https:\/\/t.co\/s9DagyjQ1J<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH (@JenniferNuzzo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JenniferNuzzo\/status\/1267885076697812993?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 2, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>More than 1,000 health professionals <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/06\/05\/health\/health-care-open-letter-protests-coronavirus-trnd\/index.html\">publicly supported<\/a> mass protests in the wake of George Floyd\u2019s death in June 2020 despite COVID-19 concerns, arguing that racism was a public health threat which superseded the medical community\u2019s social distancing advice. Jennifer Nuzzo of Johns Hopkins argued at the time that \u201cin this moment the public health risks of not protesting to demand an end to systemic racism greatly exceed the harms of the virus.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>RESEARCH<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Three scientists <a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jamanetworkopen\/fullarticle\/2770954\">argued<\/a>\u00a0that\u00a0\u201cresearchers must name and interrogate structural racism and its sociopolitical consequences as a root cause of the racial health disparities we observe\u201d in the prominent Journal of the American Medical Association in September 2020. Their insistence that researchers ignore the impact of personal choice and environmental factors is part of a broader effort within medicine to erase individual agency and blame all health disparities on systemic racism.<\/p>\n<p>The National Institutes of Health (NIH), the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nih.gov\/about-nih\/what-we-do\/impact-nih-research#:~:text=NIH%20is%20the%20largest%20public,and%20reduce%20illness%20and%20disability.\">largest<\/a>\u00a0funder of biomedical research in the world, has also turned its attention to racial issues. Its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nih.gov\/news-events\/news-releases\/nih-leaders-detail-commitment-end-structural-racism-biomedical-science\">plan<\/a> for ending structural racism in biomedical sciences includes pouring funding into research projects on structural racism and expanding diversity and inclusion programs for NIH administrators.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NIH?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NIH<\/a> is launching an effort to address structural racism in the biomedical research enterprise. Watch <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NIHDirector?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NIHDirector<\/a> Dr. Collins and other NIH leaders discuss the initiative with members of the NIH Advisory Committee to the Director TODAY at 3pm ET. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aI2ksauNn4\">pic.twitter.com\/aI2ksauNn4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NIH (@NIH) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NIH\/status\/1365315741969432580?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 26, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/24\/anthony-fauci-wuhan-institute-virology-major-garrett-the-takeout\/\">NIH<\/a> plays a major role in determining what kind of scientific research goes on in the U.S., funding more than $30 billion of biomedical research each year. Its new emphasis on race has driven important research on racial health disparities and their causes. It has also resulted in millions of taxpayer dollars being poured into research which is distinctly ideological rather than scientific.<\/p>\n<p>The NIH gave $3.4 million to a Tulane researcher in October to <a href=\"https:\/\/sph.tulane.edu\/news\/tulane-university-researcher-awarded-34-million-nih-grant-help-families-have-color-brave\">develop an app<\/a> that helps white parents teach \u201canti-racism,\u201d as opposed to color-blindness, to their children. It also gave $600,000 to a University of Michigan professor to teach \u201canti-racism\u201d to middle school students, Campus Reform <a href=\"https:\/\/www.campusreform.org\/article?id=18220\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>ACADEMIA<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>A 2020 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/117\/35\/21194\">study<\/a>\u00a0on racial disparities in birthing mortality for newborns found that black newborns cared for by black doctors are half as likely to die compared to black babies treated by white physicians. The study failed to note that, in cases of a bad NICU outcome, the department chair or division chief is more likely to be listed as the doctor of record regardless of whether that doctor was ever involved in the care of the newborn. Department chairs and division chiefs are more likely to be white, according to Li.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s garbage data in, garbage conclusion out \u2026 but what the public takes away is that white doctors are killing black babies. How is that going to create trust among our African American patients? I worry they will stop going to the hospital if they get sick,\u201d Li said. <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/01\/gordon-klein-sues-ucla-professor-black-students\/\"><strong>(RELATED: Professor Sues UCLA After Refusing To Grade Black Students\u2019 Work Differently)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Norman Wang, a program director at the University of Pittsburgh medical school, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.utimes.pitt.edu\/news\/med-school-professor\">removed<\/a> from his position after publishing a paper which questioned the efficacy of race-based affirmative action.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Edward Livingston, an editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), argued on a podcast that socioeconomic factors, not structural racism, held back communities of color. Livingston and the top editor at JAMA both resigned after public outcry, with the latter being suspended for three months before his resignation.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">In case you missed it, watch our newest Prioritizing Equity panel featuring experts examining the ways that white physicians can get actively involved in the fight for racial justice. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NfqgPGxEyO\">https:\/\/t.co\/NfqgPGxEyO<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/d7LO5JHhsu\">pic.twitter.com\/d7LO5JHhsu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; AMA (@AmerMedicalAssn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AmerMedicalAssn\/status\/1418752800637526025?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 24, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Association of American Medical Colleges <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aamc.org\/news-insights\/medical-schools-overhaul-curricula-fight-inequities\">wrote<\/a> that leaders in academic medicine \u201care weaving content and experiences throughout their curricula to significantly boost awareness of social inequities and structural drivers of health\u201d and argued that equity-related \u201csocial drivers need to be woven into the very fiber of medical education.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Li told the DCNF she is concerned that practices based in \u201crace Marxism\u201d could negatively affect medical education and ultimately patient care by detracting from the limited time medical students have to learn critical scientific information. <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/08\/portland-state-university-peter-boghossian-resigns-college-transformed-social-justice-factory\/\"><strong>(RELATED: Professor Resigns In Open Letter Because His College Transformed \u2018Into A Social Justice Factory\u2019)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Doctors are noticing a decline in newly-graduated medical interns, Li explained.<\/p>\n<p>Li also worries that doctors may be asked in the future to pledge allegiance to \u201crace Marxism\u201d ideology in the maintenance of license process, meaning that doctors who do not comply would risk losing their medical licenses or board certifications. The American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS), which controls medical licensing in the U.S., already <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abms.org\/news-events\/abms-member-boards-advance-dei-efforts\/?utm_source=abms&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=insights&amp;utm_content=20210405\">incorporates<\/a> diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) content into its continuing certification programs.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Institutionalized racism is a public health crisis that must be addressed.  Our statement: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FDhqGDN4uz\">https:\/\/t.co\/FDhqGDN4uz<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3gseJrDxfy\">pic.twitter.com\/3gseJrDxfy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ABMS (@ABMSCert) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ABMSCert\/status\/1267580186641432577?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 1, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>ABMS member boards, which license doctors in specific fields, such as family medicine or pediatrics, collect racial data on candidates and physicians to evaluate certification exams and incorporate the data into \u201congoing improvement efforts,\u201d according to the ABMS website. Most of these boards also provide implicit bias training for item writers and examiners and plan to expand these trainings further, the website states.<\/p>\n<p>ABMS did not respond to the Daily Caller\u2019s requests for comment.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>INCENTIVES<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Dr. Carrie Mendoza, a Chicago-based emergency medicine physician and Fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians, spoke with the DCNF about how new ideas travel from academia into patient care and medical administration using the example of the opioid crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Doctors use CPT codes, which are owned by the American Medical Association (AMA), to bill insurance and government\u00a0 programs such as Medicare. Since the AMA derives income through doctors\u2019 use of CPT codes, there is an incentive to create more codes, Mendoza explained.<\/p>\n<p>In the early 2000s, widespread concern that patients\u2019 pain was not being adequately addressed led regulators to require doctors and hospitals to measure pain, introducing the pain scale as the \u201cfifth vital sign,\u201d Mendoza said. Doctors\u2019 improvement of their patients\u2019 pain scores was used to determine whether doctors were \u201cmeeting goals,\u201d and it even impacted doctors\u2019 bonuses, according to Mendoza. Doctors were incentivized to prescribe more pain medication, and the AMA\u2019s CPT codes for pain treatment were the structure through which those financial incentives were fulfilled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn emergency medicine we quickly saw that people were getting inappropriate prescriptions for things like ankle sprains and then becoming addicts, then there were diversions and overdoses,\u201d Mendoza explained.<\/p>\n<p>Mendoza sees a link between the early stages of the opioid crisis and the current popularity of racial essentialism in the medical field. By creating CPT codes for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cms.gov\/files\/document\/zcodes-infographic.pdf\">Social Determinants of Health<\/a>\u00a0(SDH), a new umbrella term adopted by the medical industry to focus on patients\u2019 education and their experiences with discrimination, poverty and incarceration, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hopkinsmedicine.org\/johns_hopkins_healthcare\/providers_physicians\/resources_guidelines\/provider_communications\/2021\/PRUP135_ICD10-km.pdf\">among many other factors<\/a>, the AMA is incentivizing a bureaucracy to focus on issues outside the doctor\u2019s control, Mendoza argued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a parallel here where admission requirements for medical schools and residency are being loosened. When these factors converge, you get into an environment where there can be patient harm,\u201d Mendoza said.<\/p>\n<p>Mendoza speculated that the government could use data collected through SDH codes to justify its priorities in healthcare. For example, the University of Illinois, citing data on homelessness as a social determinant of health, partnered with the Center for Housing and Health to <a href=\"https:\/\/hospital.uillinois.edu\/about-ui-health\/community-commitment\/better-health-through-housing\">provide<\/a> housing for homeless patients.<\/p>\n<p>The AMA, which develops CPT codes, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ama-assn.org\/about\/leadership\/ama-s-strategic-plan-embed-racial-justice-and-advance-health-equity\">released<\/a> a 2021-2023 \u201cstrategic plan to embed racial justice and advance health equity\u201d which aims to \u201cunderstand and operationalize anti-racism equity strategies \u2026 develop structures and processes to consistently center the experiences and ideas of historically marginalized \u2026 and minoritized (Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian and other people of color) physicians\u201d and \u201camplify and integrate often \u2018invisible-ized\u2019 narratives of historically marginalized physicians and patients in all that AMA does.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The American Medical Association did not respond to DCNF\u2019s requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/24\/race-marxism-medicine\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This has been encouraged by the Biden administration, which has proposed paying bonuses to doctors who acknowledge systemic racism as the primary cause of health differences between racial groups and incorporate so-called \u201canti-racism\u201d into their medical practices<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Race"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=247777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":247778,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247777\/revisions\/247778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=247777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=247777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=247777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}