The Very Best Of Hands
Are you Canadian and feeling unwell? Fear not, I bring thrilling news. From Canada’s Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons:
Apparently, it’s a “cultural shift which is necessary for the profession.” Because, we’re told, all medical workers – yes, all of them, across the entire country – “participate daily in the perpetuation of structural violence upon those most marginalised amongst us, particularly those who are racialised, and live at the intersections of marginalisation.”
How this “violence,” this all-pervasive downtroddenness, is perpetuated by the receptionist at the local medical centre is, alas, not explained. No examples are offered. Indeed, evidence and logical argument are entirely absent. Given the sweeping nature of the demands, the absence of any kind of realistic and meaningful argument, with actual points of fact that one might address, is a tad curious.
Instead, we get a list of seemingly arbitrary words, among which, “colonisation, slavery, and white supremacy.” Oh, and “settler colonialism, heteropatriarchy, capitalism, ableism, classism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia…” Needless to say, the list is quite extensive, though not particularly illuminating. Less an explanation as an incantation. Magical words. With which to conjure contrived, pretentious guilt. A kind of modish neuroticism.
We are, however, told that the priorities of physicians, nurses, and medical administrators should be less about “professionalised knowledge,” those drug dosages and such, and more about “lenses of social justice.” These allegedly corrective lenses will “allow physicians to more effectively engage in… social change.” Suitably re-educated, their mentalities rewired, medical workers will have “bidirectional relationships with… the land.”
Which is obviously what you want when that itchy rash won’t go away.
At which point, it’s perhaps worth noting that the Royal College oversees Canada’s medical school education programmes. The institution is tasked with “setting national standards for medical education.”
So, nothing to worry about, then.
Update, via the comments:
Regarding this,
Svh adds,
Well, “anti-racism,” for instance, seems to consist largely of peddling black racial narcissism and anti-white sentiment, along with policies that actually sabotage the life-chances of minority students. Say, by actively championing a failure to learn rudimentary spelling and grammar:
So much for “critical thinking.”
And so, students who leave university saddled with debt and a worthless Angry Studies pseudo-qualification, and who subsequently repel employers with their chippy attitude, inept spelling, and grammatical incompetence, will presumably rationalise any rejection, any hardship, as proof of the evils of “whiteness” and the “racist society” that their lecturers banged on about. Because the more obvious explanation – that they were dupes, taken for a ride by race-hustling parasites – would be much too bruising to their egos.
In light of which, any value seems overwhelmingly negative. Except, of course, for the race-grifting mediocrities who get paid to propagate such things.
The contradictions of “equity” and competence have been noted here before, at some length, with striking illustrations. And while proponents of “equity” are often oddly reluctant to define this rather loaded term, it seems to mean something like equality of outcome regardless of inputs. And as values go, that isn’t entirely endearing. Or a basis for a civilisation.
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Today’s word is ‘cult’, isn’t it?
Given that I suspect the report’s authors are all in for “Medical Assistance in Dying” as it has been so carefully named in the Great White North, I’m not sure they’ve got a foot to stand on complaining about violence…
They like lists of buzzwords. It’s easier than actual argument.
Well, it’s curious how, among the woke, the more strident and sweeping the demand, the less likely one is to be offered any kind of realistic and meaningful argument, with actual points of fact that one might address. More typically, we’re treated to an ever-growing list of presumptuous words. Begged questions abound.
Again, an incantation.
How prescient. Currently have one of those which gestated about four weeks ago. The back has been scoured and furrowed by a guided dishwashing brush to target the itch which jumps from one side to the other at whim. Obviously my doctor needs a new lens to probe this affliction before I revisit next week.
Given that I suspect the report’s authors are all in for “Medical Assistance in Dying”
Yes maid was the 6th largest “manner” of death in the Great White North last year. I say “manner” because the “experts” don’t recognize maid as a cause of death. 13,241 maid deaths in 2022 represents 4.1% of all deaths. Still, some Canadians would rather die than deal with our crappy health care system.
Apparently, even assisted suicide is “privileged.” According to a Rutgers study in the US, 95% of assisted deaths were well-off, well-educated non-Hispanic whites. They call it privilege, and here I thought they wanted us dead.
Round about the cauldron go
In a homophobic throw…
Since it is nearly always wimmin who promote this cant, the original imagery of the cauldron boilers is replaced by something even more grotesque.
Well, the word that comes to mind is woo. And it must be terribly convenient to issue demands, a radical overhaul of medical care for an entire country, without once using logic or evidence or anything approaching a rational argument. To inhabit an environment in which such piffling details are seemingly deemed unnecessary.
Canadians belief in “free Healthcare ” is every bit as dangerous as a mouse’s belief in “free cheese”. They are both traps. Our health institutions are among the most dangerous in the world, the COVID-19 deaths in Canadian institutions was the highest in the world. Murder is called MAID, and some criminals are not criminals(on account of racism etc).
These people aren’t well.
…focusing medical school education on the values of “anti-racism,” “anti-oppression,” “social justice and equity,” “inclusive compassion,” and “decolonisation.”
Fortunately Indigenous Ways of Knowings™ will let us know whether one is being oppressed by a tumor, and whether removing it is either an act of decolonization, or a failure of being inclusive of cellular equity. Leukemia is of course hwite supremacy.
I wonder if our descendants will one day look back and chuckle at how people so far gone, so unmoored from reality and any expectation of rational argument, were allowed to occupy positions of influence.
I wonder if our descendants will one day look back and chuckle…
Kids, being kids, won’t believe the 35 year old elders when they speak of the before times.
The proponents of this grandiose, question-begging claptrap are, respectively,
Race first. “Activist” capitalised, naturally.
Hashtag “precision equity.” As seen above, one assumes.
And,
Possibly Canada’s whitest Mi’kmaw.
Translation (if you’re white):
No Medicine for you!
Come back 6 months.
It is interesting that the humanoid lifeform tagged as “Ritika Goel” claims to be “South Asian” versus, say, “Indian-Canadian” or some such. From a quick look at her twitter link, it appears that she is training her children to be insane.
*alarm bell*
South Asian woman…Immigrant and Settler.
Sounds like colonization to me.
I think the last line will rapidly turn out to be “Don’t come back.”.
Well, it’s a curious choice, a tad ostentatious, and presumably a signal of some sort. I mean, if I were to change my Twitter / X bio to “White blogger,” you might think it a little odd. Perhaps vaguely obnoxious.
Be interesting to see how well those incantatory phrases treat that sucking chest wound.
Not so much if it’s you being chanted over, perhaps, but, well, eggs, omelettes, you know . . .
A bit of capitalisation would have forestalled my initial concern over homicidal domestics.
I’m sorry but “vaguely obnoxious” and “David Thompson” are very close to anti-matter and matter combining. Difficult to imagine and very destructive if it actually occurred.
Meow.
In person, I’m a sweetheart. Your mothers would love me.
Certainly. Just prior to sacrificing 1st born calves to the gods who clearly built those giant arch thingies*
*a monthly ceremony under the remains of the GW Bridge…
Once again, differential outcomes are attributed instantly to racism. The fact that minorities do not get their eyes checked often or ever which then causes glaucoma to lead to blindness is somehow due to oppression. Likewise the failure to abide by recommended treatments for high blood pressure or diabetes somehow is the doctors fault. Practicing unsafe sex and sharing needles? Caused by nurse Judy apparently. Just to point out that in Canada and the US the poor can get free medical care (Medicaid in the US) but to get care you have to go to doctor.
Might some doctors be racist? Probably. But in my local area (US) there are so many asian and Indian/Pakistani doctors it is hard to play the race card. One can of course try different docs if one is a racist.
There is a well-known association between IQ/education level and good health. Good genes and/or ability to take care of oneself? Probably.
Physician heal thyself?
A bit of capitalisation would have forestalled my initial concern over homicidal domestics.
At least you know where you stand with a homicidal domestic.
Sorry, it was 4:30 in the morning and I was battling insomnia. I wonder if that makes me a candidate for MAiD?
Don’t forget the medical branch of voodoo & indigenous knowledge, rub some dirt on that, burn some sage brush, beat a drum and dance twice daily, that will cure your cancer.
Sounds like an excuse for me to dig out this baby. From the Guardian, naturally.
The Hamas-booster types want to be in charge of your hospital. Expertise be damned.
Steve E:
It’s fitting that your final act be a privileged act. They will then loathe your memory.
Irony or just sad?
Medical soap operas used to have a standard plot where the hotshot “the body as a mechanism” physician learns humility and holistic thinking from a pretty nurse or patient. White women were the target market back then, and they’re the target market now for the message that Westerners need to be saved from our closed-mindedness by those soulful holistic lateral thinking non-Westerners. They’ll buy the Deepak Chopra online courses, they’ll allow their own people to be slandered by the likes of Ritika Goel and Kannin Osei-Tutu.
Meanwhile the oppressed immigrants, having been enslaved by our fleets of Boeing 777’s, are strangely eager to import their mothers into the Western medical system to cure them of diseases that the wise village woman hasn’t been able to fix in 40 years. The idea of an authoritative doctor pretending that his knowledge is of no more value than yours, that’s a Western status pose that just-off-the-boat immigrants aren’t equipped to understand. See also the “climate refugee” immigrants who aspire to owning a MacMansion with multiple SUV’s, not quite having grasped the subtleties of our system where people who live in gated communities in Malibu preach frugality to us.
These twits no doubt assume that after they corrupt medical school there will still, somehow, by magic, be surgeons to remove their cancer, meds for their otherwise fatal disease. Just like the Occupy Wall Street jerks wanted to end wall street while using their Iphone and laptops and riding fancy bikes.The disconnect from reality is simply stunning.
My post was meant to convey that the very idea of you being “vaguely obnoxious” was almost unthinkable. I appear to have failed in that.
These twits no doubt assume that after they corrupt medical school there will still, somehow, by magic, be surgeons to remove their cancer, meds for their otherwise fatal disease.
This.
It’s the cargo cult mentality. There are people who expend much effort to produce an art installation that may look like a helicopter, but no matter how much the activists bend over backwards to praise and throw money at it/them, it ain’t never gonna fly, and even if they managed to attach an engine, the thing would never survive the forces of its own mass.
Handing a medical degree and scalpel to people of the correct Pantone shade and ideology will give them the ability to practice medicine and do surgery about as well as the helicopters built by the cargo cult “engineers” will fly. Oh they’ll do the carving up part ok – anyone can cut meat – but how will they know the good bits from the bad bits? Especially since we all look pretty much the same on the inside, regardless of the Pantone shade of the outside. How will they know what to do – the racism skin tone chart doesn’t go to internal shades.
When you live in a city, the reality you see is totally man-made. While cities existed in the past, you at least had horses/donkeys/oxen to move cargo prior to the invention of the internal combustion engine. Someone born and raised in a modern urban environment will (by default) have absolutely no idea how food, water, and power is produced and delivered into that city.
There’s the trope of the country bumpkin entering the big city and being fleeced or abused because that’s funny. The normal trope of the city dwellers going into the countryside appears to steer into the horror realm. Make of that as you see fit.
The malignant ignorance behind claims that most health outcomes are socially driven is breathtaking. But it seems to me to be a clever CYA, actually. When a 3rd rate minority intellect fails to accurately diagnose and treat disease, rather than be vulnerable to malpractice claims, they can blame their abysmal outcomes on white, cis-patriarchal, transphobic settler colonialism that devalues indigenous, two-spirit ways of knowing that could have cured your cardiac amyloidosis if it weren’t for those genocidal white people.
*F4 enters the chat
[ Starts sending signed photographs to everyone’s mother. ]
Just the antibiotics, thanks.
[ Starts sending signed photographs to everyone’s mother. ]
Skip mine, she’s been dead since ’08. But I am sure she’d appreciate the gesture. Ma was one classy dame.
Starts sending signed photographs to everyone’s mother.
Would be more useful if you signed a few Credit Note releases.
“Sorry, mate. Can’t give you a replacement drink for that note. More than me job’s worth. Mr. David has to sign a release. He’s out for the day, again…You’ll have to pay cash down for the beer…What’s that?…The beer’s cloudy?…No it’s not, mate; the glass is dirty…”
None of those things have value.
Inventing, discovering, creating are all very very difficult. We are not that smart. The stuff we take for granted took hundreds or thousands of small or large innovations and tons of hard work. This is especially true in medicine. We can’t do experiments on people (well, not anymore). Germs are sneaky. We still have very little handle on general inflammation, cancer, alzheimer’s. There is little one can do besides managing blood pressure to prevent stroke. We don’t know why some people live to 100. To act like it is all just routine now and we can simply focus on social justice (an imaginary cure for an imaginary illness) is to endanger the entire enterprise.
I had to take my parents to a hospital that was almost entirely black nurses. The surgeon confided to me that the staff were not very professional. It was pretty disorganized and poor care. This is how someone going in for a minor thing ends up crippled or dead.
The surgeon confided to me that the staff were not very professional. It was pretty disorganized and poor care.
Wait til the surgical staff and the doctors are all of the same caliber as the nursing staff there. I think some elderly care homes are already at that point.
Where do these academics think they are going to get medical care from when they’ve finally destroyed the current system? I’m not entirely sure they themselves will be satisfied with a list of buzzwords, some sage smoke, and some dung to rub on when they come in for something serious.
The bien pensants are blissfully unaware of just how complex and vulnerable any civilisation is.
See also.
And this.
Just what I, a Canadian, needed to read two and a half hours before I go in for a gastro-intestinal procedure.
I’ve talked with my MDs and clinicians about this stuff, and most of them are of the opinion that the idiots writing these tracts “have too much time on their hands“.
While they’re generally dismissed as being moron, the problem is that once this nonsense gets into a system, it starts to grow, like gangrene.
This sort of thing continues to build until it starts affecting the people who’ve been ignoring it, as with the anti-oil protesters blocking streets and making people’s life miserable, and it usually results in an over-reaction in the next election.
All part of the service. Hope all goes well.
Bill said: “This sort of thing continues to build until it starts affecting the people who’ve been ignoring it”
As another example, grade inflation is so bad that something like 70% of grades given out in the Ivies are A. In other words, they just hand out diplomas if you pay them. No consequences….until major corporations started saying they no longer require a college degree to hire. Until companies that hire have to give remedial writing classes.
AI will be cheaper, more reliable, and won’t insist on bizarre, ever-changing, pronouns.
Well, “anti-racism,” for instance, seems to consist largely of peddling black racial narcissism and anti-white sentiment – which is to say, racism – along with policies that actually sabotage the life-chances of minority students. Say, by actively championing a failure to learn rudimentary spelling and grammar:
In light of which, any value seems overwhelmingly negative. Except, of course, for the race-grifting mediocrities who get paid to propagate such things.
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It might short circuit once in a while and present us with a whole raft of new ones. The number of genders seems infinite, we need pronouns to match.
Rules against plagiarism and cheating are racist now.
The implication that students with sufficiently brown skin should be allowed to cheat in class, and to cheat in exams, and generally misbehave, has cropped up before, more than once.
Again, I’m not seeing how such unilateral indulgences will foster the kinds of behaviour and self-discipline, the kinds of attitude, that are more likely to result in long-term success and personal satisfaction. But apparently, all that matters is short-term appearance, achieved via short-cuts and overt racial favouritism.
Those indulged will be given the badges and medals, but not the skills, or the character, with which one generally earns them. Such is “equity.”
Via Kate, and somewhat related:
Onwards!
It has become clear to me that the mad leftists who take over these institutions are perfectly happy to control them, but they’re also perfectly happy to destroy them. Bernie Sanders and his co-religionists were offended at all the choices on the grocery store shelves. The people who took over Bud Lite are the same, and Disney, and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons. Either way, they win.
Well, insofar as they have leverage and are able to waste other people’s time and resources, their influence does seem to be entirely negative, if not farcical.
See also, astronomy and space exploration.
Because even light must be “decolonised.”
At least a dozen years ago at a post-work happy hour I was engaged in a discussion along these lines though a bit more STEM oriented. I forget the deeper context but I do recall that at some point I was prompted to say what seemed rather obvious, in context, that education was actually making people stupider. I was met by blank stares and blinking eyes. Like no one wanted to even think such a thing.
Wait until they try to re-wire electrician training along similar lines. Sparks will fly.
Via Kate, and somewhat related:
That was terrifying.
Professions where you only see the failures in weeks, months, years are also a problem. That far into the future and it can be impossible to determine what went wrong. Then it’s shruggie time. “¯\_(ツ)_/¯”
Hard times make strong men. Strong men make good times. Good times make weak men. Guess where we are. Wealth and comfort have made people so foolish that they don’t see any cause and effect. Everyone wants a prize just for showing up. The belief in black (moreso than in hispanic) communities seems to be that whites just get cushy jobs without being able to do the work or even doing the work. Yes, of course there are a few such jobs but not 95% of jobs. But now even young white people don’t think it is “fair” they have to work. FFS
Smallish Bees: It has become clear to me that the mad leftists who take over these institutions are perfectly happy to control them, but they’re also perfectly happy to destroy them. Bernie Sanders and his co-religionists were offended at all the choices on the grocery store shelves.
I have known leftists who were offended and/or stressed out by the numerous choices on grocery store shelves.
Other leftists are offended by the “wrong people” enjoying prosperity the “wrong way”: They are offended by the very existence of forms of recreation that they see as “lower class” and want to re-engineer the economy and regulatory system to eradicate them. See, for example, RV’s and snowmobiles. Privately owned planes are okay, but only in the hands of the well educated wealthy elite. They even see working class food preferences (fast food, lots of meat, etc) as immoral and in need of abolition. And God Help You if you enjoy Olive Garden restaurants.
And God Help You if you enjoy Olive Garden restaurants.
What’s wrong with…er…problematic about Olive Garden? Evil carbs? Americanized Italians? Large portions? (Has no one heard of to go containers?)
Proles. Enjoying themselves. Come the revolution there’ll be none of that.
Oppressed if they get Western medical treatment, oppressed if they don’t get it. In among the Irish immigration bureaucracy’s list of reasons for a fraudulent asylum seeker being “non-returnable” – (1) bring a serious disease with you, (2) tell a complicated enough story to delay the investigation, (3) start medical treatment in the host country, and (4) once you’ve started it would be unimaginable(*) to deport you. Ireland gets an unproductive, perhaps even contagious, resident forever. Numbers? Demographics? Second-order effects? Incentives to game the system? Yeah sure maybe, but the real danger is if immigration issues were “exploited by less acceptable elements”.
(*) Another reason for a fraudulent asylum seeker being “non-returnable” – “where the country of origin simply refused to accept their return” – simply refused, eh? Imagine that. Are we even allowed to think through the possibilities of that?
Come the revolution? The revolution is here. Behold the artsy-fartsy Merry Christmas from the United States of Bananas.
So I have a suggestion: Why don’t we initiate a teacher exchange program with France where we swap their educators desperately trying to inform pupils about Renaissance art, and they get our Rainbow trouted paedophile child sex groomers?
Beleaguered French intellectuals gain safe haven in Britain, not for the first time, and British perverts get to do important missionary work in the third world. And hopefully a few “disappear” along the way.
Everyone wins!
[ Compiles tomorrow’s Ephemera, clicks “schedule.” ]
Except, of course, for the race-grifting mediocrities who get paid to propagate such things.
Speaking of which, James wanted to go to music school, James had no musical training, but “oodles” of enthusiasm, lacking experience his audition would likely be messed up as a football bat. James was not admitted because he was black.
You see hwitenes and meritocracy dominate the admissions processes of music schools according to the authoresses of Disrupting Racism in Music Education: Conceptualizing Admissions Processes Through the State and the War Machine.
No seriously, that is the title, do read through it, it is a veritable salamagundi of buzz words that comes down to “let more POCs in regardless of ability”.
Disrupting Racism in Music Education: Conceptualizing Admissions Processes Through the State and the War Machine.
Whitney Mayo. C’mon this has got to be satire.
I’m surprised her co-author isn’t Ashley Whitegirl.
Whitney Mayo.
At least she isn’t from the University of Southern North Dakota at Hoople, regardless, admire the “Editorial Board” for the “journal” – Ecojustice music education…Foucaultian genealogy…Indigenous research methodologies.
There seems to be a bit of a lack of actual music education, but OK, I guess.
The “journal” is part of the Mayday Group – I guess that is a little more subtle for the rubes than Venceremos Brigade Group.
A very ‘kids in do-you-want-some Candyland’ vibe.
Fits this administration to a ‘T’.
Highly ranked contender for oxymoron of the year.
All part of the Marxist/Maoist playbook. Produce stupid, unstable, paranoid morons. Turn said morons on all social structures and let them wreak havoc. When havoc allows Marxists to seize power, morons are either enslaved (sent to work the mines or fields) or shot.
Are you Canadian and feeling unwell? Fear not, I bring thrilling news
“…Mexico is but a short flight away!”
Seriously. I’ve just been informed that the earliest I can get a CT scan for random catastrophic sinus bleeds is May-June.
some Canadians would rather die than deal with our crappy health care system
Many, arguably most, Canadians would rather die in our health care system than admit its failure. Socialized medicine is both a matter of national identity and the third rail of Canadian politics; so much as hinting at any kind fo privatization is a death knell for any politician’s career, and the program expands futher every election cycle. The current ruling junta has just announced dental care will now be covered.
I’m not exaggerating when I say Canada is over as a country. There’s no coming back from this.