Should doctors know how to treat people for disease or how to promote a Left-wing version of social justice?

You probably have a different answer than the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons in Canada, which is considering a proposal from its Anti-Racism Expert Working Group, which has decided that Western medical knowledge and practice are superfluous to medical education, at least when weighed against social justice concerns.

I feel incredibly humbled to have been part of the Anti-Racism Expert Working Group, co-chaired by @KanninOsei and @CashinMD. As part of the open call, we have shared reflections from our working group on the potential transformative direction for the CanMeds model (attached). pic.twitter.com/qXVb4NGANd

— Ritika Goel (@RitikaGoelTO) November 25, 2023

Lest you think I am exaggerating, the proposal is extremely explicit about the goal of downplaying medical knowledge in favor of deconstructing Western society, which it is claimed is rooted in systemic violence.

A new model of CanMEDS would seek to centre values such as anti-oppression, anti-racism, and social justice, rather than medical expertise. It would prioritize bidirectional relationships with patients, providers, communities, the land, the health system, and society at large rather than the individual physician as a gatekeeper of professionalized knowledge. With this new model, we can reflect a stance of humility over hubris, and demonstrate how we as physicians must be constantly seeking to learn, explore, critically reflect, and grow.

Patients under this system can critically reflect and grow, as they say, just as long as they don’t need medical attention. Because if they wind up needing that attention, they will be screwed.

Existing competencies can be re-organized and modified under a new model which would also feature the teaching of critical reflection and self-reflexivity, as well as understanding of equity and advocacy, so as to allow physicians to more effectively engage in community-led social change. Such a model of CanMEDS would allow medical schools to appropriately embed and infuse lenses of social justice, anti-oppression, advocacy and equity throughout their teaching, and thereby teach future physicians how to incorporate such thinking into all of their clinical, teaching and research work.

This reads like a parody, but it is not. The Anti-Racism working group is actually proposing that the Canadian medical school system deprioritize medical training because doing so helps undergird the oppressive Western society. It is better that people die than live in the West.

As a profession and a health system, we participate daily in the perpetuation of structural violence upon those most marginalized amongst us, particularly those who are racialized, and live at the intersections of marginalization because of our race, ethnicity, religion, sex, gender identity, social class, ability, immigration status and more.

As we have seen in the past week, the rot within our institutions can become deeply rooted without alarming people until some event can penetrate the Narrative’s deceptions. You and I have known how corrupt and unfree higher education has become. Still, it wasn’t until Elise Stefanik–a Congresswoman whom the MSM has done everything to portray as a dolt–absolutely destroyed the presidents of Harvard, MIT, and Penn in just a few minutes.

The rot is everywhere, though, and we have yet to see how things will shake out in higher ed, even as the institutions’ anti-Western values are laid bare.

CanMEDS is laying bare its prejudices, but we don’t even know if the MSM will help expose the rot. Dropping a document like this in the public eye only matters if people are forced to or even allowed to see and debate its implications.

The committee has certainly done its opponents a favor by explicitly downplaying the importance of teaching actual medicine to medical students. Still, as of now, the discussion is limited to Twitter and a few alternative media outlets. Every MSM outlet should be quizzing these doctors and demanding they explain why medicine doesn’t matter.

Ironically, it may soon be the case that a Canadian’s best shot at getting a good doctor will be seeking out an Indian immigrant in the system. They will still have been trained in medicine, not ideology.