American Medical Association Picks Sides, Goes Fully ‘Woke’ With New ‘Health Equity’ Guide

I am so old I can remember when you could trust the advice given to you by your doctor and be pretty certain that what you were being told was based on science and reality and not politics.

Apparently that is not going to be the case for much longer.

The American Medical Association has picked sides in the political and culture wars and gone full ‘woke’ with their new guide to ‘Advancing Health Equity.’

Medical professionals are now being told that meritocracy, individualism and free markets are bad things.

Via Fox News:

The American Medical Association recently released a guide on “Advancing Health Equity” that promotes how to fight for critical race theory, includes a list of words not to say and their “equity-focused alternatives,” and criticizes concepts like “meritocracy,” “individualism” and the “‘free’ market.”

The 55-page document released on Oct. 28 cites a guide by the organization Race Forward for how to advocate for critical race theory (CRT), which is called “Guide to Counter-Narrating the Attacks on Critical Race Theory.”

The health equity guide argues physicians cannot eliminate “health inequities” by “focus[ing] only on individuals, their behavior or their biology.” It says they instead must focus on language and collective political circumstances of certain groups.

“Given the deep divides that exist between groups in the United States, understanding and empathy can be extremely challenging for many because of an inability to really ‘walk a mile in another’s shoes’ in a racialized sense,” a preface to the American Medical Association (AMA) guide says. “Collectively, we have an opportunity and obligation to overcome these fissures and create spaces for understanding and healing.”

The guide’s release comes amid culture war battles over what critical race theory is, whether it’s really being taught and advanced by schools and other institutions, and whether its tenets should be adopted broadly by society.

“This is just the latest front in the Left’s campaign to inject Critical Race Theory into every corner of America,” Jessica Anderson, executive director for the conservative Heritage Action, which has vocally opposed CRT, told Fox News.

“This document, published by the largest medical association in the country, is a brazen attempt to politicize the medical field and subject health care workers to far-Left speech police,” Anderson added. “While the Left continues to falsely claim that CRT isn’t real, Americans are noticing what’s happening, and they’re fighting back. From the waiting room to the classroom, families are standing up to reject this racist ideology.”

The full and very Orwellian AMA guide to ‘Advancing Health Equity’ can be found here.

This is very disturbing and shows how every field, including the practice of medicine, is being corrupted by leftist politics.

Maybe the practice of medicine should not be politically oriented but apparently that is old fashioned thinking and won’t be tolerated in the new Marxist, leftist run version of America we all seem to be living in.

Wonder how much longer it will be before medical treatment is denied to those of the wrong political party or who think incorrectly?