Ben Shapiro's Alarming Thread Shows How DEI In Health Care Puts Lives, Safety At Risk

This is the norm in medicine. Meet award-winning Duke surgical resident Vignesh Raman. At an internal DEI lecture, Raman says his "heart sinks" when he has patients who watch Fox News or wear MAGA hats. Then he celebrates having a majority "non-white" population to treat. Raman adds that post-George Floyd, Duke made a concerted effort to stop hiring so many “walls of white men.” He says the team is now "abandoning … all sort[s] of metrics" and adopting a "completely holistic" application practice in order to recruit more women and non-white surgeons. Raman also tweeted that he won’t “amplify” medical literature involving only white men – because it’s not as if white men have ever advanced medicine or anything. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GHSMUaPWoAAHca5?format=jpg&name=large

Vignesh Raman is just one example of a much larger trend. The American College of Surgeons, or ACS, recently gave its 88,000 members a definition of “racism” that implies it’s impossible to be racist against white people. The ACS also invited Madeline B. Torres to explain to its members that "when patients see physicians who look like them, they tend to do better." She also says grants and awards are being distributed to surgeons on the basis of minority status. This is now the prevailing view in surgical medicine. At a recent conference on DEI at UPenn, where Ewen Liu now works, one surgeon says that it's "off putting" that so many surgeons are white men. The doctors also state that surgery needs something like the NFL’s Rooney Rule, which requires that teams interview minority candidates. But the doctors say surgery needs an expanded version that goes further and ensures that minority candidates are selected.

So it doesn't matter if the surgeon can't perform the job competently, just that quotas are met. This is so, so bad. It’s bad enough when teachers or government bureaucrats talk like this, but valuing intersectionality over merit can literally mean life or death in surgery. According to a recent Johns Hopkins study, medical error is the third leading cause of death in the United States. The only thing physicians should care about is competence. Anything else will get people killed. We're gonna need a minute because this is breathtakingly scary. DEI in medicine means doctors and hospitals that practice it will simply go out of business. Most people aren’t going to want to risk their lives getting treated by a practice that doesn’t hire based on merit. Capitalism will eventually deal with the woke mind virus.

Governing boards and licensing committees -- probably even the government -- will go to great lengths to protect these woke, incompetent hospitals, though. Bank on it. Watch DEI be factored into whether or not a patient can file a malpractice suit (hint: it'll be 'racist' to sue a minority surgeon, even if they injure or kill you). This, whether intentionally or not, can only help to break the system and push a single-payer one down our throats. Hospitals are hiring people who are willing to violate their oaths if you dare be a conservative. This should terrify EVERYONE, because if they harm you for being conservative, they may very well hurt you just because they simply had a bad day. The entire reason the Left has pushed for health care as a 'right' is so they can openly discriminate against their political opponents.

They let the mask slip during COVID; remember how they were so eager to deny the unvaccinated health care? They'll do the same thing because you voted the wrong way, are a Christian, or a white man. It should not be allowed, or tolerated, in any way, shape, or form.

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