From my America Out Loud Pulse podcast – https://www.americaoutloud.news/one-surgeons-fight-against-race-baiting-radicalism-2/
Medicine as profession has advanced to include all races and males and females. My father went to an all-black college and medical school. I went to a “white” college and medical school. When I was in medical school, the OB-Gyn department accepted its first female resident. Now over half of OB-Gyns are female. Times change – thank goodness.
Medicine as a science has advanced over the years to treat and cure more and more complex conditions. Unfortunately, there are certain groups of patients who don’t have access to good medical care. Sometimes this is because of lack of insurance or they have Medicaid that many doctors do not accept. Some have no transportation or babysitting or a myriad of other socio-economic issues standing in their way. We must do our best to sit down as a health care team and work on getting proper medical care to all Americans.
It seems that instead of doing the hard work of getting down to the root of the problems, academia has taken the easy way out by deciding that the cause of health care disparities is racism. Now all solutions start with racism and end with indoctrination into reverse racism. The academicians and mainstream medical associations write articles that erroneously conclude that minority patients are better off by having a doctor with the same skin color. Of course, this only works for patients of color. A white patient would be a racist if he asked for a white doctor. This obsession with race is clouding deeper societal issues. It is also violating Hippocrates’ oath to treat all patients with the same respect and skill.
My guest today has taken his fight against indoctrination to the streets, so to speak. First direct to the top of the American College of Surgeons and then in the National Review. https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/10/the-american-college-of-surgeons-doubles-down-on-anti-racism/
Link to Dr. Bosshardt’s petition for reinstatement: https://www.change.org/ACS-petition-reinstate-Bosshardt
Do No Harm website – https://donoharmmedicine.org
Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism in Medicine website – https://fairforall.org/fair-in-medicine/
Bio
Dr. Rick Bosshardt is a board-certified plastic surgeon in private practice in Lake County, Florida for over 33 years. He graduated from University of Miami Medical School and completed his general surgery training in the U.S. Naval Hospital, Oakland, California. After serving as a surgeon at the U.S. Naval Hospital in Okinawa, Dr. Bosshardt returned to Miami in 1987 to train in plastic surgery. He wrote a weekly medical column, entitled House Calls, for the Orlando Sentinel for over 25 years and was a contributing writer to Lake Healthy Living Magazine for over 10 years. He is a member of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons and a Fellow in the American College of Surgeons.
