Medical officials are being trained across the country to hate and exclude certain people. This is detrimental to a practice meant to save all lives.
Activists are destroying the medical field by reforging it in the fires of identity politics. Medical schools and boards across America are requiring candidates to be intersectional first and medical practitioners second.
The National Institutes of Health is fueling identity politics in medical schools nationwide. It convinces their leaders to update their recruitment rubrics to prioritize “diversity statements.” It does this by enticing them with large federal grants through its NIH First program.
The NIH helps these rubrics sneak into public universities throughout blue and red states, regardless of the laws permitting or banning diversity, equity, and inclusion, or DEI, practice. They add points for intersectional commitment and status and dock them for believing everyone is equal. They are often explicit about their “efforts to bring critical race theory to the forefront of society.”
Unfortunately, the medical battle is going so well for these activists that it is not just occurring in private: It is in legislation deliberation, too.
In Virginia, the state legislature passed a bill that would force medical practitioners to undergo “unconscious bias” and “cultural competency” training to renew their licenses. This bill now awaits the decision of Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R-VA), who has committed to expelling DEI forces from his state. However, rather than vetoing the bill on his deadline date last Friday, he motioned to postpone making a decision.
In Montana, Gov. Greg Gianforte’s (R-MT) administration is being sued over a law that lets it appoint members of the state’s Board of Medical Examiners based on race and gender. The group that filed the lawsuit is Do No Harm, an anti-DEI medical organization. Its founder and chairman, Stanley Goldfarb, was ousted from his position as co-director of the kidney department of the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine.
Ben Shapiro and his research team at the Daily Wire reopened the lid on this nationwide scheme when he exposed racially motivated medical malpractice. On X, he said, “DEI in medicine means that even if doctors injure patients, they might still be protected (even promoted). It means that top hospitals are abandoning key metrics when hiring surgeons. And it means research by whites may be disregarded.”
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Shapiro’s prediction of the future of medical procedures is correct. Perhaps more than in any other field, identity politics in medicine will result in the otherwise avoidable deaths of many people.
If DEI takes any more significant strides, at some point, if you do not fit the correct intersectional criteria, your next surgery may be your last.
Parker Miller is a 2024 Washington Examiner winter fellow.
