By Jessica Chasmar- The Washington Times - Friday, April 9, 2021
An editor at the Journal of the American Medical Association is out of a job after criticizing the concept of structural racism in the healthcare field during a February podcast.
Dr. James L. Madara, CEO and executive vice president of the American Medical Association, announced in a statement that the journal had accepted the resignation of Deputy Editor for Clinical Reviews and Education Dr. Edward H. Livingston, accusing him of hosting a “harmful” podcast that “both minimized the effects of systemic racism in health care and questioned its profound impact on millions of people across our country.”
The AMA’s CEO declared that “structural
racism exists in the U.S. and in medicine” and that it’s “not opinion or
conjecture” but a fact proven “through the science and in
the evidence.”......To Read More...
Our Group Take - 1. The AMA stopped being relevant in 1965. Until Medicare came in, they were against it. The very moment it did come in, they changed course because they saw how it could benefit THEM, not the docs they supposedly represented. They started the reimbursement schedules, to the tune of big bucks. As it is, fewer than 10 percent of actual practicing docs belong to that wretched organization. An absolute sick joke.
2. Talk about yet another vile and grossly anti-science anti-American action that will have a massive chilling effect on science in addition to academics. This is the sort of thing expected in totalitarian nations, not America for heaven's sake. And yet it's now rampant across the nation.
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