By Greg Ganske
Let us progress from the petty, but not inconsequential aspects of “woke” changes in American medicine, to the existential, serious consequences of “woke ideology” on your own health.
If you search online for “racism and medicine,” you will find screen after screen of medical papers purporting to show that doctors are racially biased, and this leads to poor care and worse outcomes for minorities.
Is this science? No. It is poor science at best, ideologically and frankly, politically driven. And that makes it political science, not medical science.
But should a physician dare question the assumptions of this politically pushed “science”—and isn’t science all about questioning assumptions?
For the sin of questioning a political assumption, a physician will most likely be declared an apostate to be driven from the profession of medicine.
Think about that if you’re unfortunate enough to be in a hospital or holding the hand of a loved one as tests are conducted, as …