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The honchos at this medical school need a check-up from the neck up.
The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA should be tasked with educating the great doctors of tomorrow. But, according to a slew of recent reports, theyβre more interested in churning out an army of social justice warriors with stethoscopes.
First-year medical students are required to take a βStructural Racism and Health Equityβ course, implemented as antiracist atonement programming in the wake of George Floydβs 2020 death. By most accounts, itβs unnecessarily feeding a cancer of wokeness.
Earlier this month, students were forced to listen to Lisa βTinyβ Gray-Garcia, a pro Hamas speaker who led the class in chants of βFree, free Palestine,β called modern medicine βwhite scienceβ and demanded they pray to βMama Earth.β
There are lessons on βdecolonizationβ and βclimate activism.β There used to be a class exercise that divided students into racial groups, but that was canceled in January after a civil rights complaint.
The latest revelation about the course syllabus, however, takes the cake β and itβs a multi-tiered concoction frosted with radical and unscientific proclamations about obesity and health.
According to the Washington Free Beacon, Geffen students are required to read βNo Health, No Care: The Big Fat Loophole in the Hippocratic Oath,βΒ an essay by Marquisele Mercedes. A self-proclaimed βfat liberationist,β Mercedes believes obesity is a slur βused to exact violence on fat peopleβ β specifically, βBlack, disabled, trans, poor fat peopleβ
βFatphobia,β she writes, βis medicineβs status quo.β
The essay βΒ which begins with an unsatisfactory medical experience Mercedes says she had as a 13-year-old visiting a slim, white, blonde doctor β is a self-centered, indulgent rant from a proudly overweight academic simply trying to justify her own size.
Itβs also a nonsensical ode to victimhood that force feeds the reader a smorgasbord of intersectionality terms and traces the βorigins of fatphobiaβ to white European Enlightenment philosophers.
And how quaint to picture it: Jean-Jacques Rouseau fat-shaming a female dinner guest, making loud pig noises as she takes a bite of her second helping of bread.
But thereβs more. Mercedes makes many dubious claims β calling the relationship between weight and health βmuddyβ and claiming βit is proven thatΒ weight loss is a useless, hopeless endeavor.β
We know that everyoneβs bodies are different and weight loss can be affected by a myriad of issues, including genetics and underlying medical problems. Weβre constantly learning new lessons about trimming fat β but none of them say, βDonβt, if youβre obese.β
But take it from Jeffrey Flier, the former dean of Harvard Medical School Flier, who said the course βpromotes extensive and dangerous misinformation.β
βThis is a profoundly misguided view of obesity, a complex medical disorder with major adverse health consequences for all racial and ethnic groups,β Flier told the Washington Free Beacon. He added that teaching these βignorantβ ideas to medical students is nothing less than βmalpractice.β
Flier said: β[UCLA] has centered this required course on a socialist/Marxist ideology that is totally inappropriate. As a longstanding medical educator, I found this course truly shocking.β
Personally, I want a doctor who is going to call balls and strikes β and who isnβt petrified of having difficult conversations about how lifestyle choices may be affecting overall health.
Not someone who was indoctrinated by the high priestess of fatness or a person who turned corpulence into a new religion.
This essay belongs at a spoken-word open-mic night βΒ not in a medical school tasked with sending competent doctors into the world.
If they donβt trim the fat from this storied institution, a UCLA medical degree will become patient repellent. Run if you see it hanging on a docβs wall.