Wokeness Has Infected the Mayo Clinic

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In 39 years as a practicing nurse, I urged hundreds if not thousands of patients to consider seeking additional care at the Mayo Clinic. The famous medical center, based in Minnesota and with major campuses in Florida and Arizona, is widely regarded as one of the best in the country. Yet I can no longer in good conscience recommend this once-prestigious institution. The Mayo Clinic is now fully and unashamedly woke, and worse, it’s aggressively pushing its divisive agenda on the rest of health care.

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‘Horrified’ hospital employee leaks DEI training pushing 3-year-olds identifying as transgender

A “horrified” hospital employee at Kaiser Permanente leaked a sex change training for diversity, equity and inclusion, which promoted the idea that a 3-year-old can be transgender. 

“The employee, who wishes to remain anonymous for fear of losing her job, was horrified,” according to the Wednesday report from Libs of TikTok. 

As part of the hospital system’s DEI training, medical employees were expected to watch a video with children explaining they knew they were transgender at age 3 and 4. 

“Many transgender people have ALWAYS known their true gender,” the video said. 

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Thousands of US children underwent gender transition: Study

Thousands of children have undergone gender transition surgeries in recent years, following a trend that has “increased significantly,” according to the Journal of the American Medical Association.

The study identified 48,019 Americans of all ages who had undergone some form of gender dysphoria-related surgery in the United States between 2016 and 2019.

Nearly 4,000 of those were between the ages of 12 and 18. The reasoning for including 18-year-olds, the age of adulthood, in the younger cohort was not explained, so it is unclear by the study how many who are legally children were given the surgeries.

However, a recent Vanderbilt University study found that 489 children between the ages of 12 and 17, with a median age of 16, had gotten their breasts removed in a double mastectomy in 2019 alone.

Read more on the Washington Examiner.

Medical Doctors, or Social Workers?

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Physicians need to practice medicine, not worry about the “social determinants of health.”

Can your doctor cure poverty? How about homelessness? Food insecurity? For that matter, does your doctor treat the legacy of slavery and racial discrimination?

Most people answer this question readily: No. Doctors are trained to treat medical conditions, helping patients lead healthier, happier, longer lives. Yet the medical elite think the answer is “yes.” For years, health disparities between white and minority communities have been attributed to the so-called social determinants of health (SDH), which include the effects of poverty on communities, the residue of historic discrimination, and purported ongoing discriminatory practices in health care. But do these factors really determine health—or are they more properly termed “social factors affecting behaviors associated with health status”? That’s not nearly as catchy as SDH. It just happens to be more accurate.

Read more at City Journal.

9th & Congress | Episode 6: The Fight Against Discriminatory Ideologies with Dr. Stanley Goldfarb

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TPPF’s Sherry Sylvester sits down with Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, Do No Harm founder and author of “Take Two Aspirin and Call Me By My Pronouns – Why Turning Doctors into Social Justice Warriors is destroying American Medicine” to discuss the fight to stop the radically divisive and discriminatory political ideologies that are eliminating, among other things, testing and training standards in medical institutions in the name of social justice.

Listen to the 9th & Congress podcast on Spotify.

Hospital exec says White race should be made to feel uncomfortable about its ‘Whiteness’: ‘Dangerous’

A Maine hospital executive involved in diversity, equity and inclusion hosted an antiracist prayer service that had a group of White people apologize for their internalized racism as White people, according to a video reviewed by Fox News Digital. 

Ryan Polly is a vice president of DEI at MaineHealth, a hospital system of over 20,000 employees. He has said the hospitals cater to overwhelmingly White patients, which is reflected by local demographics. 

Polly refers to himself as a “minister” of a group called One Spirit. According to a video reviewed by Fox News Digital, which has since been scrubbed, Polly is shown teaching attendees how to be practitioners of antiracism through a prayer that he dedicated to “loving spirits who are known by many names.” 

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OSU med students required to read ‘antiracism’ docs, warned against asking Black colleagues ‘How are you doing?’

Ohio State University College of Medicine (OSUCOM) students are required to read a slew of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and antiracism literature, including an opinion piece that recommends a White colleague not ask a Black colleague how they are doing.  

“This opinion piece … informs the reader of ‘things to be mindful of with not only Black friends but also Black Colleagues in the workplace.’ One recommendation is to stop asking, ‘How are you doing?’ Its reason is that the situation ‘for Black People (and all People of Color)’ is to ‘experience racism every day,’” the July 2023 report published by Do No Harm, a medical nonprofit, states.

Read more on Campus Reform.

Alabama child medical transition ban reinstated by US appeals court

A U.S. appeals court Monday reinstated Alabama’s ban on gender transition drugs for children, overturning a lower court injunction.

The three-judge panel for the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, all of whom were appointed by former President Donald Trump, reinstated the law, ruling that Alabama has “a compelling interest in protecting children from drugs, particularly those for which there is uncertainty regarding benefits, recent surges in use, and irreversible effects.”

Read more on the Washington Examiner.

Exclusive: Insider Reveals Hospital ‘Forced’ Progressive ‘Social Justice’ Indoctrination on Medical Trainees

A leading Louisiana-based medical center “forced” its medical students and resident physicians to play a radical game as part of training geared at indoctrinating future physicians to advocate for left-wing progressive “social justice” ideals, according to a shocking revelation by a whistleblower.

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EXCLUSIVE: St. Louis University Pushes Ideological Transgender ‘Toolkit’ on Med Students

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—St. Louis University’s Transgender Health Collaborative is pushing a toolkit on “transgender health” intended to influence students of medicine to embrace ideological understandings of gender and sexuality.

Read more on the Daily Signal.

See No Harm

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Call it a match made in heaven. The Journal of the American Medical Association has a penchant for publishing non-rigorous research, and CNN has an insatiable appetite for promoting it. Their latest rendezvous comes by way of a study that sets out to assess regret and overall levels of satisfaction among people who elected to undergo mastectomies as part of a gender transition. The study appeared on August 9, and CNN ran an article on it within hours of its publication.

Read more in the City Journal.

Exclusive: Medical Watchdog Calls For Endocrine Society To Reconsider Support Of Trans Medicine On Minors

A medical watchdog organization has called on the Endocrine Society to perform a “systematic review” of its support for medical interventions that seek to change the sex of minors, a letter obtained exclusively by The Daily Wire reveals.

Do No Harm, an organization that seeks to “Protect healthcare from a radical, divisive, and discriminatory ideology,” highlighted growing skepticism of transgender medical interventions across Europe in a letter to the Endocrine Society. The organization has maintained its support for what it refers to as “gender-affirming care,” which includes the use of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormone therapy, and surgical interventions like double mastectomies.

Read more on the Daily Wire.

How political activism in medicine is failing patients

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The special doctor-patient relationship is under threat

Trust in the public healthcare system declined among Americans during the Covid-19 pandemic. It’s no wonder: public health bureaucrats pushed for various insane policies that ran counter to common sense, admitted to deceiving the American people and worked to shutter debate surrounding the national and global coronavirus response. But instead of doing everything they can to restore trust in the system (and prove that they’re still deserving of it), government officials and medical associations have continued to politicize the healthcare field, sowing discord between patients and their doctors. 

A consistent theme throughout the pandemic was that while Americans were less likely to trust the medical establishment, they mostly liked their personal doctors. But some new policies proposed and enacted by left-wing activists and politicians threaten the doctor-patient relationship.

Read more at The Spectator.

The Affirmative-Action Ruling Could Spell Trouble for the MCAT

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Patients may suffer the painful consequences if the war against merit — and for racial discrimination — continues.

The Supreme Court’s recent ruling against affirmative action in college admissions isn’t deterring fans of race-based admissions — it’s inspiring them to seek workarounds. And that could be bad news for the Medical College Admission Test, or MCAT.

The nation’s leading medical-school association, the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), developed and oversees the MCAT, a standardized exam that has been instrumental to medical-school admission for nearly a century. The exam was developed in response to high attrition rates in medical schools and broad acknowledgement that a standardized screening for aptitude best served the interests of the profession and patients.

Read more at National Review.

Maine hospital executive rankles for decrying ‘Whiteness’ in antiracist training: ‘Demeaning himself’

MaineHealth insider says DEI training is ‘pushing’ hyperfocus on ‘Whiteness’

A vice president of diversity, equity and inclusion at MaineHealth, one of the largest hospital systems in the State of Maine which serves a predominantly White community, blasted executives’ Whiteness and claimed that the racial group of people need to be subjected to “sensitivity” training in order to create a “safe space.” 

During an antiracist training, Vice President of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Ryan Polly blasted White leadership at “predominately White” corporations for purportedly behaving in a way he described as “Whiteness.” He further claimed that White people are uncomfortable being associated with people of color. 

Read more at Fox News.

Emory researchers blame ‘structural racism’ for Type 2 diabetes in black people

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Critic of the paper says ‘health literacy is an even bigger problem’

“Structural racism” contributes to higher Type 2 diabetes rates in black Americans, according to a new paper from Emory University researchers.

The researchers used a framework that “consider[s] the domains of health behaviours and social norms, structural racism, access to high-quality care, economic development, and public awareness.”

Read more at The College Fix.

Doctors sue California over training that whites are naturally racist

A coalition of California doctors, including the anti-discrimination group Do No Harm, filed a lawsuit against California’s mandated implicit bias training for physicians, noting the training promotes the belief that “white individuals are naturally racist.”

AB 241, passed by California lawmakers in 2019, requires all continuing medical education (CME) courses to include implicit bias training. Because 50 CME hours are required each year to maintain one’s medical license, the law essentially mandates that practitioners consume these lessons or lose their ability to earn their livelihoods, while also replacing limited course time with unnecessary or counterproductive information. 

Read more at The Center Square.

Pediatrician’s Group to Review Guidelines for Treatment of ‘Trans’ Youth

The American Academy of Pediatrics plans to review the evidence for irreversible, experimental transgender care for children and may amend its policies on the matter, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal.

Reportedly, the review will include evaluations of care such as puberty blockers and hormone therapy treatment. Children who identify as “transgender” and believe their biological sex does not align with their “gender identity” may undergo this type of care, in addition to irreversible sex reassignment surgery (via the Wall Street Journal):

Read more at Townhall.