Antiracist medicine..or why Doctors will soon discriminate against white patients to achieve equity

[AnimalNoodles]

This article outlines a pilot project to give blacks and latinos priority access to cardio treatment. Remember, the concept of equity essentially justifies discrimination against lower intersectional castes for virtually everything. What you will soon see is a systematic and widespread triage system where whites and men will shunted to the bottom of every list for every medical procedure. So-called "POC" will be allowed to demand a doctor that matches their own racial profile, will receive priority for treatment and pay less. Whites and men will be charged more for medical services and receive less and hospitals and doctors will be allowed to refuse treatment for racial or political reasons.

Welcome to Jim Snow.

An Antiracist Agenda for Medicine - Boston Review

Colorblind solutions have failed to achieve racial equity in health care. We need both federal reparations and real institutional accountability.

bostonreview.net

 

[Wargamer08]

Wow, what a surprise. Who could have possibly foreseen this? It’s not like stuff like this hasn’t been their stated goal for decades. Who could have possibly imagined that racial supremacy groups would push racially discriminatory policies to the applause of everyone woke. I’m sure the usual suspects will defend it rabidly as totally fair compensation for past grievances.

And one day, for no reason at all, people elected Hitler.

 

[ShadowArxxy]

Did you actually read the article? This isn't "compensation for past grievances", this is an attempt to counteract the documented current trend that patients of color are consistently given inferior health care in the current system.

 

[LordsFire]

Did you actually read the article? This isn't "compensation for past grievances", this is an attempt to counteract the documented current trend that patients of color are consistently given inferior health care in the current system.

And as the article also mentions, things like 'sociocenomic status' and 'self-advocacy' are factors in this.

They call it 'Medical Restitution.' Restitution is repayment. Calling a repayment movement 'compensation for past grievances' is not inaccurate.

If Wargamer is not describing it accurately, it's because their own terminology is deceptive.

Reading further in the article, I see the usual nonsense about structural racism, and a lack of mentioning the most salient issue, being raised in single-parent homes.

Oh gosh, they use 'Latinx' unironically. Looks like this is an institution that has already hired their diversity officers to ensure proper mental hygiene.

So yeah, it's a big attempt to justify implementing actively racist policies while making people feel bad for not being the right skin-color. I don't know if there is or is not a real problem at the hospital in question, but more racism certainly won't solve it.

 

[Marduk]

Its typical progressive leftist logic of "the statistical outcomes are unequal by group, hence some nasty systemic racism is happening, and it has to be compensated by more open favoring of the "oppressed" groups until the marxist ideal of equal statistical results for every collective is achieved."

And the fact that shit like this is discussed seriously is one of the many reasons why USA has no national healthcare. The politics of it can turn cutthroat in a bad way within years.
As it is, there may be an option for the people in "wrong" groups to just simply abandon healthcare providers engaging in this kind of political initiatives, in favor of those who don't, and take their money with them.

 

[Scottty]

Now I wonder if the need for cardio treatment is different between ethnic groups, due to such cultural factors as diet and lifestyle.

 

[Marduk]

Now I wonder if the need for cardio treatment is different between ethnic groups, due to such cultural factors as diet and lifestyle.

Yes and more, there are rather unPC discoveries like genetic, ancestry based factors in this that are only recently getting studied to a serious degree. Like this:

Genetic Breakthrough Identifies Heart Failure Risk in African and Latino Americans

Findings may inform genetic screening test for pa

www.cathlabdigest.com

 

[ShadowArxxy]

Now I wonder if the need for cardio treatment is different between ethnic groups, due to such cultural factors as diet and lifestyle.

From a medical point of view, what gets handled by general practitioners and what gets handed off to specialists is a huge grey area. Legally speaking, all physicians have a general license to practice medicine as they see fit; there is *no* formal line at which a doctor *must* hand off to a specialist. The closest you get is the separation between medical specialties and surgical specialities, but even here, the separation is a matter of policy and custom rather than law.

Now statistically speaking, there have been studies done and patients who receive specialty care *do* consistently have better outcomes. There's no conspiracy as to why; specialists have more training, better knowledge of the latest developments in their sub-field, and are far more likely to treat aggressively with the most advanced methods.

 

[AnimalNoodles]

People over 50 and non-whites over 16 get the needle first.

COVID-19 Vaccine | Vermont Department of Health

Everyone 6 months of age and older is eligible to get a vaccine. Find out where to get vaccinated, see dosage recommendations, and find resources if you need assistance.

www.healthvermont.gov

 

[almostinsane]

People over 50 and non-whites over 16 get the needle first.

COVID-19 Vaccine | Vermont Department of Health

Everyone 6 months of age and older is eligible to get a vaccine. Find out where to get vaccinated, see dosage recommendations, and find resources if you need assistance.

www.healthvermont.gov

Not getting the shot even when I'm eligible.