American Medical Association
issues an anti-racism plan for
itself, the field of medicine
AP News,
by
Staff
Original Article
Posted By: IowaDad,
5/12/2021 6:36:27 PM
The American Medical Association, the nation’s largest association of and lobby group for doctors, says it’s taking on racial disparities in health care with a plan to dismantle structural racism in its own ranks and across the U.S. medical establishment. Leaders of the AMA, whose headquarters is on North Wabash Avenue in River North, say they’re aiming to “pivot from ambivalence to urgent action” on health inequities. Though the new, 83-page report has been in the works for more than a year, the group says the coronavirus pandemic, high-profile police brutality cases and recent race-based crimes have given the effort a sense of urgency.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
reefdiver 5/12/2021 6:40:55 PM (No. 783583)
Why isn't "Do no harm" enough? Now they want to treat different races in an other way? Please stick to you job, medicine is no place for this craziness.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
marbles 5/12/2021 6:53:03 PM (No. 783599)
P.C. BS from the AMA. I don't want to and will not go to a doctor that checks a box. . " Equity" is from the critical race theorists.It's nothing more than reformulated Marxism with race replacing economics.
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Suggest they move to the Southside, maybe somewhere near where the White Sox play, instead of their cushy River North offices.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
SALady 5/12/2021 7:29:49 PM (No. 783609)
"Race-based crimes" -- you mean like the 99% of all "hate crimes" done to Asians by black people??? Those race-based crimes???
No, we ignore those at the AMA. Now when that white person called a black person a bad name, that is a hanging offense in our book...
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
DVC 5/12/2021 7:42:13 PM (No. 783623)
Racism against whites now proposed for the medical profession.
15 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 5/12/2021 7:50:35 PM (No. 783633)
Why I never joined the AMA.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Kate318 5/12/2021 8:02:57 PM (No. 783641)
This “racial equity” jazz is the latest woke, virtue-signaling area of focus. One of my client’s husband works for the county health department. For the last year, he has manned the call lines, but is getting transferred to the Health Equity Department, which is his passion. When I asked what that was, she told me it was all based on the fact that unequal access to health care is due to racism. This department would be using taxpayer dollars to chase some fantastical goal of equitable health for all. Equal access is no longer enough. It must now be equal incomes across the board. I shudder to think how they plan to do that.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
MrDeplorable 5/12/2021 8:08:17 PM (No. 783646)
#6, right on! It's why I never joined, either. The AMA has always been a bunch of cowardly, bleeding heart, socialist do-gooders.
14 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
bobn.t 5/12/2021 8:44:08 PM (No. 783668)
Just stick to medicine and stay out of politics.
10 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
MickTurn 5/12/2021 9:52:56 PM (No. 783726)
AMA...The Arsholes MalPractice Association.
5 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
rememberwhen 5/12/2021 10:55:12 PM (No. 783771)
A solution in search of a problem.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
DARling 5/12/2021 11:13:34 PM (No. 783779)
Click your red shoes together. The answer was inside of you all along. Eat right, exercise, don't do drugs and don't tangle with the police when a simple, "Yes, officer" would have you on your way. If your lifestyle makes you prone to multiple comorbidities, then it doesn't matter what color you are.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Trigger2 5/13/2021 2:24:11 AM (No. 783878)
That's right. Make more incompetents go to medical school to ruin health care forever. Sort of like the airlines rushing incompetents through flight school. Who the hell would want to get on one of those airplanes?
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
udanja99 5/13/2021 10:33:18 AM (No. 784204)
Gee, I had to go have blood drawn this morning for my annual physical and 3/4 of the people working at the clinic were black.
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Read the report- it's amazing garbage. AMA has just insulted 75% of its members.