A week ago I had a question answered on this show about DEI; I didn’t know this interview was coming. I feel like I missed an opportunity as I was sitting near Tabia Lee at a conference recently but I didn’t speak to her, and particularly if I’d known she was involved with Do No Harm in medicine, who I went to a meeting for the following week, I wish I’d have talked with her about medicine specifically since we share some similar affiliations.
She is such an interesting character in that while I suspect many of us are cynics when it comes to DEI, she seems like the rare person who actually just took it seriously. Like every other DEI administrator knows that they’re hypocrites and it’s a farce, but this person is actually trying to intellectualize diversity.
I do want to raise one medicine-related point:
Many of the white coats for black lives protestors are actually medical students (meaning that they have not yet graduated and taken a professional oath). However, even when they do, it is likely not to be the Hippocratic Oath. The original Hippocratic Oath contains a lot of references to Greek gods and some other items that don’t make sense today, so it has been revised many times. However, most medical schools have their own oaths, and the content is different at every school. Many of them are not based on the Hippocratic Oath at all, and they may not include elements like a commitment to do no harm. Conversely, there various “social justice” invocations in some of the oaths.
Obviously, an oath to uphold “health equity” or “racial justice” is not what most people listening to this show (or not listening, for that matter) think they’re getting when they go to the doctor.
I'm very very glad to have black primary care physician who knows the types of high blood pressure medications that can lead to death for blacks. A white doctor, allegedly skilled, almost killed me with the wrong medication. Futhermore, I've more success with Black dentists.
Interestingly enough, Do No Harm was founded by Stanley Goldfarb, who is a nephrologist. The different responses to medications for different racial groups (which is what you are talking about) were taken out of the hypertension guidelines. He disagreed with that decision. The DEI folks are the ones who want him out of the profession for this.
An extension of the question I previously asked is: would it be better to put Tabia Lee in charge of diversity at Harvard, or shut down the DEI department completely?
A week ago I had a question answered on this show about DEI; I didn’t know this interview was coming. I feel like I missed an opportunity as I was sitting near Tabia Lee at a conference recently but I didn’t speak to her, and particularly if I’d known she was involved with Do No Harm in medicine, who I went to a meeting for the following week, I wish I’d have talked with her about medicine specifically since we share some similar affiliations.
She is such an interesting character in that while I suspect many of us are cynics when it comes to DEI, she seems like the rare person who actually just took it seriously. Like every other DEI administrator knows that they’re hypocrites and it’s a farce, but this person is actually trying to intellectualize diversity.
I do want to raise one medicine-related point:
Many of the white coats for black lives protestors are actually medical students (meaning that they have not yet graduated and taken a professional oath). However, even when they do, it is likely not to be the Hippocratic Oath. The original Hippocratic Oath contains a lot of references to Greek gods and some other items that don’t make sense today, so it has been revised many times. However, most medical schools have their own oaths, and the content is different at every school. Many of them are not based on the Hippocratic Oath at all, and they may not include elements like a commitment to do no harm. Conversely, there various “social justice” invocations in some of the oaths.
Obviously, an oath to uphold “health equity” or “racial justice” is not what most people listening to this show (or not listening, for that matter) think they’re getting when they go to the doctor.
https://www.aamc.org/news/solemn-truth-about-medical-oaths
https://journals.lww.com/academicmedicine/Fulltext/2018/09000/Oath_Taking_at_U_S__and_Canadian_Medical_School.19.aspx
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8368262/
I'm very very glad to have black primary care physician who knows the types of high blood pressure medications that can lead to death for blacks. A white doctor, allegedly skilled, almost killed me with the wrong medication. Futhermore, I've more success with Black dentists.
Interestingly enough, Do No Harm was founded by Stanley Goldfarb, who is a nephrologist. The different responses to medications for different racial groups (which is what you are talking about) were taken out of the hypertension guidelines. He disagreed with that decision. The DEI folks are the ones who want him out of the profession for this.
An extension of the question I previously asked is: would it be better to put Tabia Lee in charge of diversity at Harvard, or shut down the DEI department completely?
Reparations and separation would be best options, especially in America.