![]() ![]() The case of Dr Norman Wang makes this abundantly clear. Wokeness feels like an existential threat… In health care, innovation depends on open, objective inquiry into complex problems, but that’s now undermined by this simplistic and racialised worldview where racism is seen as the cause of all disparities, despite robust data showing it’s not that simple. A doctor from the Pacific Northwest told her that: What Herzog uncovered about the impact of wokeness on medical research was most concerning. She quotes a doctor who immigrated to the United States from the Soviet Union, who painted a bleak picture: “People are afraid to speak honestly… It’s like back to the USSR, where you could only speak to the ones you trust.” ![]() Herzog tells of doctors who were reported to their department for “racism” because they criticised residents for being late, and other medical personnel who “refuse to treat patients based on their race or their perceived conservative politics”. Rather, she explains, “they are largely politically progressive, and they are the first to say that there are inequities in medicine that must be addressed.” Most of the medical professionals she interviews remain anonymous, but she clarifies that they are not “secret bigots who long for the ‘good old days’ that were bad for so many”. Her 4,500-word report makes for a harrowing read. In a field like medicine, wokeness threatens more than reputations, relationships and careers: “it is threatening the foundations of patient care, of research, and of medicine itself,” she warns. But Herzog’s other piece, “ What Happens When Doctors Can’t Tell the Truth?” examines a deeper problem. One deranged and mis-careered psychiatrist does not a crisis make. In addition to her medical qualifications, she immersed herself for two years in Marxist theory and critical race theory at the University of Chicago). Khilanani grew up in a middle-class suburb in Michigan and graduated from Detroit Country Day School, which has an annual tuition of US$34,000. (Ironically, it has since come to light that, though she refers to herself as “black”, Dr Khilanani is the daughter of two Pakistani migrants who are both doctors. “I had fantasies of unloading a revolver into the head of any white person that got in my way, burying their body, and wiping my bloody hands as I walked away relatively guiltless with a bounce in my step.” Khilanani told her audience at the Yale event. ![]() Excited for grand rounds tmrw with /0VhL0welg0- Aruna Khilanani MD MA April 5, 2021 ![]()
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