Stomps on it with track shoes this time…
Proving again that inane leftist ideology still doesn’t go over well in the real world, Johns Hopkins Medicine is scrambling to explain the thinking behind the decision for its “Chief Diversity Officer” Sherita Hill Golden to include a “privilege list” in January’s issue of the “Diversity Digest” from the “Office of Diversity, Inclusion and Health Equity.”
This list was included as part of the digest’s discussion of the “Diversity Word of the Month”: privilege.
Privilege is defined in Golden’s digest as “a set of unearned benefits given to people who are in a specific social group” and operating “on personal, interpersonal, cultural and institutional levels” in a way that “provides advantages and favors to members of dominant groups at the expense of members of other groups.”
Full article, HERE from Townhall.
Johns Hopkins continues its race to the bottom with another faux pas…
Suffice to say, Golden is NOT in the same league as Dr. Ben Carson, who was smart enough to leave in 2013. They used to be in the top ten for research institutions and I think the med school was in the top 100. Most of my dealings were with the Applied Physics Lab which is NOT associated with the med school at all, and it is actually a separate entity from Johns Hopkins University since 2013 or so.
With the recent ‘pushes’ going on to steer medicine and doctors in directions away from the Hippocratic Oath, which most med schools no longer use anyway…
Translated by Michael North, National Library of Medicine, 2002.I swear by Apollo the physician, and Asclepius, and Hygieia and Panacea and all the gods and goddesses as my witnesses, that, according to my ability and judgement, I will keep this Oath and this contract:To hold him who taught me this art equally dear to me as my parents, to be a partner in life with him, and to fulfill his needs when required; to look upon his offspring as equals to my own siblings, and to teach them this art, if they shall wish to learn it, without fee or contract; and that by the set rules, lectures, and every other mode of instruction, I will impart a knowledge of the art to my own sons, and those of my teachers, and to students bound by this contract and having sworn this Oath to the law of medicine, but to no others.
I will use those dietary regimens which will benefit my patients according to my greatest ability and judgement, and I will do no harm or injustice to them.
I will not give a lethal drug to anyone if I am asked, nor will I advise such a plan; and similarly I will not give a woman a pessary to cause an abortion.
In purity and according to divine law will I carry out my life and my art.
I will not use the knife, even upon those suffering from stones, but I will leave this to those who are trained in this craft.
Into whatever homes I go, I will enter them for the benefit of the sick, avoiding any voluntary act of impropriety or corruption, including the seduction of women or men, whether they are free men or slaves.
Whatever I see or hear in the lives of my patients, whether in connection with my professional practice or not, which ought not to be spoken of outside, I will keep secret, as considering all such things to be private.
So long as I maintain this Oath faithfully and without corruption, may it be granted to me to partake of life fully and the practice of my art, gaining the respect of all men for all time. However, should I transgress this Oath and violate it, may the opposite be my fate.
Note- There is nothing in the oath that says ‘first, do no harm’!
I miss the days when I was a kid and doctors actually made house calls… I know medicine is better today, but have you tried getting an appointment lately???
Appointments? I’ve had more than one appointment scheduled for 6 months out. Six. Months. I guess the US is following the British scheduling model now.
JHU is more a random collection of schools and centers than a university. The med school is well into burning it’s seed stock. Worked with a guy who got PhD in physiology, was invaluable in updating effects for lethality models, and making the bridge to conventional trauma scoring. Not any more, now – brain dead.
APL and the WSE program part taught there were top-notch people. Some class discussions stopped by mutual consent, when we and instructors realized some interesting conclusions needed a secure environment.
So I bought my brother a birthday present a couple years ago. Privilege? Cause I didn’t buy a bunch of random strangers birthday presents? I guess so.
Quote: Privilege is defined in Golden’s digest as “a set of unearned benefits given to people who are in a specific social group” and operating “on personal, interpersonal, cultural and institutional levels” in a way that “provides advantages and favors to members of dominant groups at the expense of members of other groups.
Okay, so that who is she talking about? It isn’t WHITE people. (Of course WHITE isn’t really a group, because they’re lumping 20+ nationalities in that phrase).
But I can think of SEVERAL groups that paragraph does apply to, some for the last several decades. Some for longer than that. Who ain’t ‘white’, but have always gotten privileges that ‘white’ people were not allowed.
I have been straight to my face that I wasn’t being hired because I was ‘white’ and the owners of the company only wanted a particular race (once because they were cheaper, the other because of the owner). Can you imagine if they’d said ‘only ‘whites’ are allowed’ the lawsuit that would have happened?
It’s all such bullshit. They’re racists. They’ve always been racists. Just tired of it.
(Cheaper in that the government would give them benefits for it)
Pea- Damn…
PK- Good point, and yeah, some…discussions got moved.
Hereso- LOL
John- THere you go with facts again… stop that! 😉
“…I will do no harm or injustice to them…” comes fairly close to “First, do no harm.”
The grammar is a bit convoluted by modern thinking. Is that phrase modifying “diet” or an addition to “greatest ability and judgement”?
I remember house calls, another world ago.