AMA Health Inequities Guide

[LuFins Dad]

I assume @Jolly has already seen this distributed?

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/american-medical-association-health-equity-guide-critical-race-theory

[Copper]

criticizes concepts like "meritocracy," "individualism" and the "'free' market."

unfairly labels groups of people as ‘vulnerable’ to chronic disease while ignoring the entrenched power structures, such as racism, that have put them at higher risk

Low-income people have the highest level of coronary artery disease in the United States

Rather than using the word "fairness," the guide suggests doctors say "social justice." This is because, it says, fairness "pays no attention to how power relations in society establish themselves but primarily emphasizes outcomes within a pre-given set of rules."
"An important distinction separates the ideas of social justice, which is a standard of rightness, and fairness, which is a more limited concept," the guide says. "Fairness is a hope for an outcome."

Idiots

[Copper]

Gender
A term associated primarily

with social and cultural differences that

more broadly denotes a range of identities

that do not correspond to established

ideas of the cisgender male and female.

When is medical community going to realize there is no difference between a boy and a girl?

[George K]

Never lose sight of the fact that AMA "represents" only about 20% of US physicians.

[Jolly]

@george-k said in AMA Health Inequities Guide:

Never lose sight of the fact that AMA "represents" only about 20% of US physicians.

I was going to say, not a single physician at our little rural hospital belongs to the AMA.

[LuFins Dad]

@jolly said in AMA Health Inequities Guide:

@george-k said in AMA Health Inequities Guide:

Never lose sight of the fact that AMA "represents" only about 20% of US physicians.

I was going to say, not a single physician at our little rural hospital belongs to the AMA.

Racists…

[Jolly]

Damn skippy....

[George K]

I was a member for about 5 years. Our group joined because health insurance through the AMA was cheaper than we could find elsewhere.

We left about 10 years ago.

I still get an "invoice" for membership dues (about $1400, irrc) about three times a year, even though I've not been a member for at least 10 years.