As if Canada’s single payer system were not plagued by enough problems as it is, our medical schools are happily wasting their students’ time with every manner of woke propaganda.
“I always used to think that physicians are critical thinkers,” my source laments. “I now recognize we are not critical thinkers; we don’t train critical thinking. We like head-nodders and rule-followers.” It transpires that admissions interviews are now so peppered with the word “intersection” that it’s hard not to feel nauseous, but in fairness, eager students are simply box-checking and are not themselves to blame.
“Do we need three hours on decolonization?” But the professors were told this was a sacred subject, and the university forbade any discussion because, my source says, “It was outside our teaching expertise. … Nobody was allowed to question the invited speaker. Everything was racist.”
It’s not a school, it’s an indoctrination center
That was pretty much my experience of any kind of racial/ cultural training. The sessions were mandatory . The “ experts” were people with large chips on their shoulders and at that time very poor speaking and teaching skills. It felt as though they believed they were addressing the enemy. And no one dared ask questions. It was to be endured. Only once did we have a speaker who was skilled , positive, interesting and informative. He moved on to bigger and better things.
Oh that’s why they asked my lively white a–” if I wanted revived”.
Who knew……..
My father, of fond memory, was a physician of the old school. A practitioner of Internal Medicine, he was renowned for his diagnostic skill. As a wee lad buying shoes at Sears Roebuck, he would point out things. ‘See how he walks? Diabetes. That poor guy has a prosthesis. That one? End stage sphyilis” This was seeing the passers-by only from the knee down, and their gaits. It told me how much Sherlock Holmes was involved in ordinary medicine.
At what would normally be called ‘retirement age’ he decided to abandon his practice and re-specialize in Nuclear Medicine. But he lacked the tools. He could make the latest TI calculator sit up and beg, but he just COULDN’T find a slide rule. I, fortunately, knew a source, and got him a cheapie plastic slipstick. And two made of actual elephant tooth, in original boxes with instruction leaflets. Must have cost me almost $20.
I got an image of a haemotoligical slide from a guy I knew was a friend of my old man’s. No return addy, but I knew who it was. ACL Acute Chronic Leukemia. Can’t mistake it. I’d spent a lot of time over a microscope, the leucocyte morphology was textbook. (Not that I’d ever read the textbook…I was taught by a skilled clinician).
He loved his profession, he loved Shakespere (although he subscribed to the Oxford Heresy, Dinner Table Recitations were expected. I cheated and read the Collected Works when I was around 10.)
DEI was the furthest thing from his mind.
How many ways can one now spell stupid?
It’s their religion. Once you recognize that, it’s completely understandable how they act. These are their “scared” beliefs. Diversity, environmentalism, totalitarian healthcare. You’re not allowed to question these, or you’re a blasphemer, a heretic, an apostate, and you must be shunned, destroyed. Would you expect any less from any other religious believer?
you could not build a better case for a fully privatized parallel medical services sector if you tried. a privatized system would out of necessity be a merit based and would be far superior to what is offered now. our soft headed politicians and Supreme Court cannot seem to recognise that the accreditation bodies ie the provincial Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons are utterly corrupt and self-serving.Jordon Peterson showed us that already. A courageous premier would promote a merit-based accreditation body to exist alongside the existing College so that in order to practice medicine one would have to pass muster at both. and that nonsense of how important it is to maintain public funded medicare needs to be trashed. And just like private schools, there would be ways and means to provide quality services to the poor… although it would likely involve a means test..