Another “quick takes” on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on.<\/p>\n
The focus this time: Woke medicine is crazy!<\/p>\n
First, a little mood music:<\/p>\n
<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"> Carrying on\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-66\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/SkullRx.gif\" alt=\"Death, Rx\" width=\"287\" height=\"269\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"> Nothing says modern medical psychology like protecting students from \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/campusreform.org\/article?id=18349\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">psychic suffering<\/a>\u201d!<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cLast month, Middlebury College hired Alberto Soto to serve as its Director of Counseling. In an interview Soto told The Middlebury Campus that \u2018source of all our psychic suffering,\u2019 are \u2018whiteness, heteronormativity,\u2019 and \u2018patriarchal systems\u2019.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c\u2018The body and mind cannot be healed solely by self-care and focusing on surviving,\u2019 Soto told the student newspaper. \u2018At some point we must address and identify the source of all our psychic suffering, which is whiteness, heteronormativity, patriarchal systems, etc.\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cSoto earned his PhD in psychology at Brigham Young University, a conservative, Mormon institution.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5371\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"37\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif 500w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line-300x22.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more--> What\u2019s more important than developing new cures for diseases or new treatments to help the sick? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/opinion\/kevinmd\/94934\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Revolutionary Black Feminism<\/a>, of course!<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cBlack feminism describes that Black women are inherently valuable and the specific liberation of Black women is necessary in its own right. It parses out these political identities and desires to have true humanity for Black women — arguing that it is impossible for there to be bondage of any other group when we liberate marginalized genders and Black people, as these populations are seen as the most marginalized people.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cMedicine is clearly necessary, though oppressive and abusive. However, understanding the need for liberation of Black women and freeing all marginalized people will allow political, social, and economic freedom. This understanding will improve: 1) the care any patient receives; 2) how medical professionals at every level experience their work; 3) how patients present to medical care; and 4) health disparities in medicine.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5371\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"37\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif 500w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line-300x22.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"> Because medicine doesn\u2019t need science, skill, and ability, but rather \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/medical-university-hires-vice-president-for-humanism-equity-and-anti-racism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">humanism, equity, and anti-racism<\/a>\u201d!<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cA California and Oregon-based medical school has hired its first \u2018Vice President for Humanism, Equity and Anti-Racism\u2019 who will begin his new job on November 1.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c\u2018Western University of Health Sciences has appointed Suresh Appavoo, EdD, as its first Vice President for Humanism, Equity, and Anti-Racism, reporting directly to the president and serving as senior administrative leadership,\u2019 the private health sciences school announced.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cAppavoo\u2019s career included \u201cresearch and practice [and a] focus on intersectionality, transformative DEI leadership, and systemic change-agency in higher education,\u201d according to the news release.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cDr. Appavoo brings the depth of education and experience to help us realize to the fullest our values of humanism, diversity, inclusion, equity and anti-racism,\u201d the university said in a statement.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"> TTFN.<\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatBlog\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalHat\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Woke Medicine: Psychic Suffering; Black Revolutionary Feminism; Humanism, Equity, and Anti-Racism\"\/><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"The focus this time: Woke medicine is crazy!\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/SkullRx.gif\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Another “quick takes” on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on. 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