You’ve seen the articles: healthcare workers (often nurses) who boast that they won’t treat MaGA supporters or even that they’ll harm or kill them. Another variant is the same claim about not treating, or outright harming, Israelis.
This shouldn’t surprise us, although it probably does. People who work in healthcare are people, after all, and there’s always been a certain number of natural sociopaths drawn to the profession. We’ve always heard of the random nurse or doctor who injects patients with something lethal, although their numbers have mercifully been very low. But they have always existed.
However, what’s going on now seem to be a new phenomenon, and although it continues to involve a small number it’s certainly more people than the group I described above. This time, also, they seem to have little awareness that they will face any negative consequences for publicly stating their willingness to harm or kill patients. They brag about their intent to commit such crimes, and seem to consider it a good way to virtue-signal. When they are suspended or fired, they’re probably very surprised.
If they are young (and by “young” I mean anything under forty) they’ve been steeped in leftist education, for the most part. So some of this is a generational phenomenon. Then there’s widespread TDS and the demonization of anyone supporting Trump, which has increased over the years rather than decreased. I see it myself, nearly constantly. It becomes standard in many circles, and that escalates matters as well, when one’s colleagues and friends and family seem to all agree that MAGA equals Nazi. That thought is reiterated and magnified through the MSM, Democrat and NeverTrump politicians and pundits, and social media.
Healthcare professionals often go into the profession through a desire to do good, and if killing Nazis is good then they’ll do that, too. Nor is their professional training politically neutral, either. You can find loads of articles describing the extent to which medical training has veered into leftist indoctrination, and the results: for example see this, which notes the leftist bent of health:
[A] follow-up paper, published in 2019, demonstrated that recent medical school graduates—especially women, but men as well (though to a slightly smaller degree) skew much more to the left than their older colleagues, a progressive shift the authors argue is likely to continue, and over time, shift the political balance of the profession as a whole.
Most of the articles I found on leftist training in health care involved medical school and doctors, but it stands to reason the same is true for nurses and the like.
There’s also this, for a description of some of the training:
The most sweeping of the “implicit bias” training mandates, and a possible harbinger of future state-wide edicts in other states? That would be in California, where according to the very letter of the law, “all continuing medical education courses”—which physicians need to complete to have their licenses renewed—must “contain curriculum that includes the understanding of implicit bias.”
But indoctrination programs that anger, demean, and insult people are unlikely to persuade them. Objective data demonstrating benefits in medical outcomes resulting from intrinsic bias training is inconsistent and sparse. Even those who believe racism is the source of disparate medical outcomes and support implicit bias training urge some caution using the current approach because of methodological problems.
While I recognize that social injustices exist, I remain unconvinced that racism is a major cause of outcome disparities—and I’m concerned that this indoctrination causes more harm than good. In fact, the evidence already suggests that this divisive ideology, rooted in racial discrimination, is being prioritized over the findings of scientific research to the detriment of patient health.
There’s this sort of thing:
First-year [medical students at UCLA] are reportedly assigned readings in the required course, Structural Racism and Health Equity “SRHE,” which pushes far-left views supporting protesting climate change and abolishing police and prisons. …
A current student in the medical program at UCLA claimed that this class isn’t alone and that far-left politics pervade every class in the program.
“This curriculum is laced through all four years of medical school,” the student told Fox News Digital.
National Review had this 2023 article on the topic, but it’s behind a paywall.
There’s an organization called “Do No Harm” that’s dedicated to eliminating some of this indoctrination:
“We are a diverse group of physicians, healthcare professionals, medical students, patients, and policymakers united by a moral mission: Protect healthcare from a radical, divisive, and discriminatory ideology. We believe in making healthcare better for all – not undermining it in pursuit of a political agenda,” the organization’s website explains.
There’s a lot of information at the website, and I wish them much good luck with that. It’s late and getting later.
