Political ideologies in medical institutions.
The AMA suggests that doctors should no longer tell patients or medical students that “Low-income people have the highest level of coronary artery disease”.
Instead, they suggest the doctor say “People underpaid and forced into poverty as a result of banking policies, real estate developers gentrifying neighborhoods, and corporations weakening the power of labor movements, among others, have the highest level of coronary artery disease.”
Is is a very serious error to force political ideologies into medical institutions. The credibility of the medical professions is much too important to squander.
The day a doctor lectures me on “The recognition by workers of their unity as a social class in opposition to capitalists and to capitalism itself” is the last time I see that doctor.
Keep Marxist bullshit away from medicine, and critically, keep it out of JAMA.
JAMA should be a medical journal, not a political journal.
A health equity narrative grounded in equity and a social justice framework should "Expose the political roots underlying apparently “natural” economic arrangements, such as property rights, market conditions, gentrification, oligopolies and low wage rates"
The world has gone mad.