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One of the most prominent and dangerous characteristics of the progressive left is its totalitarianism--all other human endeavors must be subordinated to its political theories and projects, and every endeavor, no matter how apolitical, must be infused with them. The scientific search for truth, the educational attempt to disseminate knowledge--everything--must be mangled to accord with leftist dogma and pseudoscience. Now we're told that engineers, pilots, and doctors will all be chosen and educated in accordance with such ideas as well--and in many cases, of course, rejected for rejecting them.

Respectfully: no, medical schools should *not* combat racism. Unless you mean: actual racism arising inside medical schools. If you're at Big State U. Medical School, and you find out that Dr. Smith is grading people down on the basis of their race, then yes, of course. Actual racism inside your institution should be dealt with as we've done for the last 75 years.

But no one has ever denied that. The questions are: should medical training be infused with leftist dogma and pseudoscience? And: should medical training include indoctrinating medical students with the idea that, qua doctors, they should go out and become "anti-"racist activists? The answer to both questions is, obviously, in the negative. Addressing actual racism if it arises in your institution is one thing. Becoming a crusader for crackpot leftist madness...a completely different one... And to see this as part of what it is to be a doctor is just daft.

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In Obstetrics we are actually ignoring research in the name of equity and anti racism.

A recent paper contradicted prior years of flawed data to report good news. Maternal mortality was actually lower than previously thought. Instead of a positive reaction ACOG chose to criticize the paper because it somehow encouraged us as physicians to now stop caring about it and the fact that maternal mortality is worse among non Hispanic black women

So only bad news reenforces the agenda

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