We Won’t Sign an ‘Implicit Bias’ Pledge

Our medical careers have an expiration date. In 2029 and 2030, respectively, we will no longer be board-certified in emergency medicine and therefore unable to work in almost all U.S. hospitals. The only way to maintain our certification is to pledge to fight so-called implicit bias, which we refuse to do on medical and moral grounds.

In 2021 the American Board of Emergency Medicine published a Code of Professionalism for all physicians who rely on the organization for certification—nearly every emergency medicine doctor in the country. The code requires us to promise to “mitigate both implicit or explicit biases based on race, gender, age, sexual orientation, disability, national origin, or religion when providing patient care.”

Read more in the Wall Street Journal.