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Thank you very much for yet another outstanding article highlighting the pervasive influence of Woke far-left culture, which has surreptitiously infiltrated our once-thought-to-be free society. Canada, like many Western countries, is now witnessing the stifling of voices, leading to people being "cancelled" and losing their jobs and livelihoods.

I was heartened to observe a strong opposition to the Royal College's proposal to alter CanMED by numerous readers of The Medical Post just a few days ago. It seems that people are growing weary of the encroachment of this problematic woke culture, intent on undermining the foundations of a free world.

On a tangential note, I must mention that today, another piece with a woke-style perspective was published in the Medical Post, focusing on "weight-equitable" care. The article suggests that discussing the impact of obesity on health with patients is detrimental to their self-esteem and should be avoided. Initially, I thought it was a jest as I started reading, only to realize, regrettably, that it was not.

Once again, thank you for shedding light on these pressing issues and for providing a platform to discuss the challenges posed by the pervasive influence of woke ideologies.

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Thanks Oleg, that’s very kind of you. Do you have a link to the Medical Post article you mentioned? Or did you read it in the paper version?

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By not discussing obesity with a patient, if indeed obesity is an issue, is tantamount to dishonesty.

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Great piece. Why I support you guys. This is going to be a fight that lasts all our lives. Worse, the woke social justice warriors curre tly ignoring mass rape and murder in Israel because of their own anti Semitism - taught to them by those higher education social justice elements/groups/individuals like Claudine Gay who make a great living and exercise major personal power by wielding the threat of them coming after wrong think (starting with speaking up in the first to refute the ways social justice goes wrong in practice) - those students graduating today haven't yet begun to truly spread into positions of power in govt. On an individual level this is a massive risk to you me our living standards and our freedom.

But it gets worse.

Our strategic enemies love and invest billions every year promoting this discord and division. They love the weakening of the commitment to freedom that is the heart of democratic systems. And it's not the social justice people who defend it. They would rather tear the system that built our free way of life down.

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Well said! I must say, I am feeling a significant amount of schadenfreude (I hope I spelled that OK) from watching Claudine Gay twist in the wind. Had she kept her head down people may not have noticed that she was a woefully unqualified diversity hire. Now that she brought attention to herself by being an anti-semetic idiot, people have realized that she only has 11 publications (most Harvard profs, let alone presidents, have many dozens and most presidents have written significant books - read about Lawrence Sommers), and those publications are useless fluff. Plus her PhD thesis was plagiarized. And yet she hasn't been fired. One wonders how long she would have lasted if she was not a member of a sacred minority group.

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The guy who broke the plagiarism story - Chris Brunet - is, like you, one of those I support monthly to try to make sure the spotlight starts to shine in places light is needed. Exposure of the woke bureaucracy and its self serving totalitarian nature is the necessary precondition of the vibrant political dialogue that our freedom rests on. This dialogue is under major threat from forces within - it is not a stretch to see illiberal policies become outright systemic suppression that already on an individual level is de vastating lives and families. 42000 Canadian volunteers died fighting totalitarianism in WW2. But that's what we have gnawing away at our freedoms inside govt and the broader public sector today. For real.

When a govt official comes to my house and tells me I'm not allowed to record their visit in my own home because they refuse it, yet they sit in judgement on me, it made me realise how many lives they destroy that we never hear about because the media will never cover those stories UNLESS you are a visible minority with a victim narrative.

They are full of their own importance, believe their own narrative, can't be fired, and will never acknowledge the harms their actions often produce.

Just look at Covid. Massive excess mortality and public health tries to avoid all dialogue around this massive failure of policy.

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Brilliant as ever! The real problem is that it only takes a few cycles and all the young docs will be onboard with all this nonsense.....as opposed to just being cowardly and keeping shtum. As for the 'weight equitable' care, I see South west airlines has just introduced a new policy for 'customers of size'...( in any sane world that would be an obvious joke like the activist 'proud to be stout' movement.) They are given a free extra seat and others bumped if necessary. Ever beyond parody.

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Hey Duncan - interestingly I wrote about this exact issue a few years ago and I sensed where this was all heading. Straight to Crazy Town is where. https://crankyolddoctor.wordpress.com/2016/05/12/when-is-discriminating-ok/

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Thank you for the information Julie. Christopher Langan, penning the name, Cognitive Theoretical Model of the Universe, has said that (paraphrasing) in America, specific minorities are selected for positions in fields that require specialized skills, not based on their knowledge and merit, but rather on the fact that they are a visible minority (apparently not Asian). I thought that this sounded like a racist statement, but if these are the facts about admission into medical programs, what are we to think? Langan was referring to a black man who was promoted in the military. And who are the engineers building and designing the infrastructure of our cities? People will learn the truth, and how will the truth help racism? Eventually, these practices will reignite the problem they claim to be addressing.

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Here in the States, the new med students won't know shit about taking care of diabetes or hypertension but they can tell you when the world will end due to climate change and will know all the 236 genders.

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That pretty much sums it up!

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This pill of truth is hard to swallow! This is exactly what’s happening in our health care system and is the reason so many long serving health care professionals have left healthcare.

Thank you for putting into words what many of us have experienced. We are not alone.

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WT literal..fuck

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Julie, Chris :

Although this may seem a tangential comment, I would like to bring to your attention by way of enthusiastic recommendation a short story ( and later a film adaptation) written by the late Kurt Vonnegut over 60 years ago.

The title of both was "Harrison Bergeron", and the dystopic future envisioned bears a chilling resonance to what we are experiencing now.

Here is the original text of the short story:

Harrison Bergeron : https://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/harrison.html

And the film adaptation : https://www.bitchute.com/video/dxAA2qNVWTTD/

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Thanks - yes we are very aware of this story and love it!!

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We should hold public screenings as a kind of good-natured counteroffensive!

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If these institutions keep going as is, soon MAID won't be a choice!

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"If you think this doesn’t yet have real world implications, think again. At the peak of the COVID pandemic, when treatments such as monoclonal antibodies and anti-viral medications were being rationed, New York and other states prioritized non-white individuals for treatment. Canada followed a similar strategy in prioritizing vaccines (remember, those vaccines SO critical for your health that it was mandatory to get them?) for indigenous citizens. Young, healthy people were vaccinated ahead of 90-year-old diabetics with bad lungs, as long as those young people were part of a preferred racial group."

Since those interventions were actually harmful, the prioritizing of preferred racial groups was a blessing in disguise for that elderly white diabetic with bad lungs. She actually got her life extended for a bit.

Meanwhile, politicians and health officials who insisted on "equity" at the very best (if they were unaware of the dangers) accidentally harmed the ones they were trying to help, or at worst (if they were aware of the dangers) targeted the "marginalized" populations for suffering and death, all while virtue signaling about helping them.

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The metaphor of Earth in a fever needs nuance. Earth has been in a fever state ever since the polar ice caps retreated. We thrive in a current interglacial. The reason is that when much of Earth’s water is locked up in ice, ocean level drops and vastly more tropical areas areas become exposed. Then, the energetics of the biosphere is at a maximum.

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Terrific piece. I'll share it later.

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If ever there were a time for doctors to stop being sheep and start speaking up for what's right--it's now. The likeness to Germany is shudderingly scary. To understand this, one has only to read The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide by Robert Jay LIfton and start connecting the dots to now (it's not rocket science). At the end of his Foreword Lifton writes: "I have been aware for decades of Albert Camus's insistence that we be neither victims nor executioners, that we avoid institutions and actions in which these two categories come into being." I would add that the line between the two is very slim and that doctors need to stop seeing themselves as holding special powers on one hand, and victims of their regulating bodies on the other.

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Totally agree, Evelyn. I read "The Nazi Doctors" many years ago and it had a profound effect on me. I've been very suspicious of the phrase "for the greater good" (and its variants) ever since. To anyone who thinks "it can't happen here" this book should be required reading.

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This is excellent. It is genuinely scary where the medical 'establishment' is going these days. That Queer Fabulosity piece in The Lancet is beyond a joke. My question to you is: Is there anything a lay person/ordinary citizen do about this? Is there any point in writing a letter of complaint to the College? I would consider writing a letter if I thought it might do some good. Please advise.

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Julie forgot to mention, please sign this and pass it on. https://donoharmmedicine.org/2023/12/04/stop-canadas-plan-to-corrupt-medicine/

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Thanks Steven. I think the more letters and emails they get the better. Even a few lines to voice your concerns might help. If they get inundated with e-mails and bad PR, they may think twice before formally adopting this BS. Here's the email address: canmedsproject@royalcollege.ca

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Btw do you know the time frame on this? I am going to compose a letter and rather than just send insults and invective (my desire) I will take the time, if I have it, to compose something intelligent. Please advise. Thx.

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Sorry, no. I emailed them and got a vague reply back saying they were considering their options, but no specific timeline.

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ok thx, I will write this weekend, and post what I send, here.

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Thank you! I will write to them for sure.

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I’ve explored this to some extent and the only path is for patients to band together and launch a lawsuit against the CPSO on the basis of documented harm. The courts appear to protect the colleges but take seriously harm to patients. Demonstrated harm points to criminal activity.

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