Another Medical Association Goes Woke

Another day, another medical association goes woke.

The latest example is the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (AAPM&R). Representing more than 10,000 medical professionals, it recently sent out a DEI survey that asks members to show how woke they really are.

The survey starts with the typical focus on members’ identity. It asks for a member’s gender, transgender status, sexual orientation, and race/ethnicity. It only gets worse from there.

The survey also asks members to rank their familiarity with key woke concepts. The list includes ableism, ageism, allyship, implicit bias, nativism, equity, intersectionality, LGBTQI, microaggressions, racism, classism, and much more.

What do these divisive concepts have to do with physical medicine and rehabilitation? The survey never says, but then providing better care isn’t the focus. Determining a medical professional’s level of wokeness seems to be the real goal.

The survey goes on to ask how well the AAPM&R has integrated DEI into every level of the organization. The clear implication is that the association is going to make a full-court press to become as woke as possible. That appears to include indoctrinating members and pushing them to toe the woke party line.

The American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation is going the same way as virtually every other medical association. It’s putting divisive and discriminatory woke ideology ahead of its core mission of helping medical professionals provide better care. Patients in need of physical medicine and rehabilitation – beware.