When American Doctors Are Scared to Tell the Truth

Honestly with Bari Weiss

The Free Press

Society & Culture, News

4.6 • 7.8K Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2021

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

For several months, the journalist Katie Herzog has been talking to some of the country's top doctors and professors—not about COVID, or vaccines—but about a new, creeping orthodoxy that’s taken over the hospitals and medical schools where they work. Those doctors say that whole areas of research are off-limits. They say that top physicians are treating patients based on their race. That professors are apologizing for saying ‘male’ and ‘female’ and that students are policing teachers. And in more than a few alarming instances, politics has come before patients. As one doctor put it: “Wokeness feels like an existential threat."Today, Katie joins us to discuss the ideological purge happening within American medicine, where the stakes could not be higher. If you haven't read her newsmaking stories, published in our newsletter, we highly recommend checking them out Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	BAM, picture this! You're watching your favorite artist play. Not that artist!
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0:29.1	Go to Pepsi. UK slash FAQ.
0:31.6	I'm Barry Weiss and this is honestly.
0:35.0	You may have recently seen that the American Medical Association Board came out with a report
0:39.8	and that report recommended the removal of sex as a category on birth certificates.
0:45.5	And the reason for this, the board said, was that, quote, assigning sex using a binary variable
0:50.8	and placing it on the public portion of the birth certificate perpetuates the view that sex is immutable.
0:56.0	I think if you stumbled across that news item, having not followed the broader story,
1:01.0	the broader story being the way that American medicine is being captured by politics, you'd
1:06.0	probably shrug. You just scroll on to the next thing. Maybe you'd think, eh, who cares? Why do we need
1:11.6	sex-listen on birth certificates anyway? But stories like this one betray a much deeper shift and it's a shift that is threatening American medicine.
1:21.0	The dogma that has created this shift goes by many imperfect names.
1:26.1	Supporters often call it social justice. Critics often call it wokeness or a moral panic.
1:31.1	Whatever it's called, here's what we know.
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