A group of doctors is criticizing the American Medical Association’s new “health equity” guidelines, which they say will lead to poor patient treatment and unqualified doctors.
The AMA, along with the Association of American Medical Colleges’ Center for Health Justice, released “Advancing Health Equity: A Guide to Language, Narrative and Concepts” last month, which argues that meritocracy is a “malignant” narrative and limits “understanding of the root causes of health inequities.”
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Both the AMA and the AAMC are tied to the Liaison Committee on Medical Education, which accredits medical schools nationwide, leading to concerns that the health equity guidance will be pushed in the education of medical professionals.
The Washington Free Beacon quoted several doctors who expressed concerns that the guidelines would lead to “underqualified doctors, missed diagnoses, and unscientific medical school curricula.”
Most of the doctors were quoted anonymously, but Jeff Singer, an Arizona surgeon, said that certain medical conditions are more common in certain racial groups because they “vary based on genetics.”
The guidance, the Beacon reported, could lead doctors to avoid screening certain racial groups for diseases “on the mistaken belief that genes play no role in racial health disparities.”
“We’re talking about matters of life and death here,” Singer told the outlet.
The health equity guidance attempts to paint that racially based health outcomes have nothing to do with genetics and only with structural inequalities and systemic racism.
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“In the absence of a rigorous examination of racism, assertions that unmeasured genetic or biological factors may account for racial differences in health outcomes are troublingly frequent,” the guidance says.
