The price of allowing liberals to subvert the healthcare field and subordinate it to their warped ideology is nowhere more obvious than at UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine, where students are required to kneel to moonbat deities while a crazy lady denounces modern medicine as “white science,” where committing suicide to advance political objectives is encouraged, and where students are required to undergo “fat positivity” indoctrination.

All first-year medical students must take the course “Structural Racism and Health Equity”:

The Washington Free Beacon has obtained the entire syllabus for the course…

One required reading lists “anti-capitalist politics” as a principle of “disability justice” and attacks the evils of “ableist heteropatriarchal capitalism.” Others decry “racial capitalism,” attack “growth-centered economic theories,” and call for “moving beyond capitalism for our health.”

Health isn’t about health with leftists at the helm; like everything else, it is about imposing Marxism in its various applications. To get an idea of how healthy that is, consider the 100 million people killed by their own Marxist governments during the 20th century.

Students are required to read an essay by self-described “fat liberationist” Marquisele Mercedes.

The essay by Mercedes “describes how weight came to be pathologized and medicalized in racialized terms” and offers guidance on “resisting entrenched fat oppression,” according to the course syllabus. Mercedes claims that “ob*sity” is a slur “used to exact violence on fat people”—particularly “Black, disabled, trans, poor fat people”—and offers a “fat ode to care” that students are instructed to analyze, taking note of which sections “most resonate with you.”

Obesity is not a slur or an oppressed identity but a medical disorder that will take years if not decades off your life. It is associated with heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure, diabetes, cancer, osteoarthritis, gout, depression, gallbladder disease, and obstructive sleep apnea, among other conditions.

Yet even as the nanny state anarchotyrants running New York require warning labels on hot chocolate lest someone pack on a few extra ounces, doctors are trained to revere obesity rather that to help their patients overcome it — because cultural Marxism.

Admittedly, there is one advantage to being obese. It can help a “trans woman” evade punishment for exposing his genitalia to children. Actual headline from the bizarro world liberals have inflicted on us:

Trans Woman Is Cleared of Flashing Her Penis at Three Women Using Ohio YMCA After Judge Ruled She’s Too FAT for Her Genitals to Be Visible

Nothing tops transsexualism for depravity. But using a medical school to promote obesity comes close.

On tips from ABC of the ANC and Steve T.

Under a totalitarian regime that is still relatively soft and decentralized, you won’t be subjected to torture in Room 101 for stating incontrovertible facts along the lines of 2 + 2 = 4. But you might be denied healthcare:

A disabled Pennsylvanian woman is speaking out after Planned Parenthood Keystone dismissed her from medical treatment over what they allege are “anti-trans and transphobic” views. The woman, who uses the pseudonym Jane Lane, had been receiving healthcare at the Pennsylvania clinic for over a decade.

With Democrats in charge, Planned Parenthood is in effect a branch of the government. It is funded lavishly with taxpayer money. Much of this is kicked back to Democrats as campaign donations. Democrat apparatchiks will break the kneecaps of those who give Planned Parenthood trouble, as when Kamala Harris went after journalist David Daleiden for exposing Planned Parenthood’s practice of selling body parts harvested from the children it kills.

Without warning, Lane’s upcoming medical appointment was canceled, and she was not allowed to make future appointments. A letter from Planned Parenthood Keystone CEO Trish Tashjian made explicit that Lane was being punished for her viewpoint:

“The dismissal from services is due to repeated offensive conversations and symbols that contradict our commitment to creating an inclusive and compassionate environment for both staff and patients.”

Lane was denounced for “anti-trans and transphobic rhetoric and symbols.”

The letter was initially shared on X by @TTExulansic, who also included photos of the shirts Lane had occasionally worn to her appointments. Among the shirts were those with slogans “Make Women Female Again”; “Woman: Adult Human Female”; and “100% Natural Woman, Female Original.”

That is, her crime is to have affirmed that only women are women. That they regard this fact as impermissible provides insight into whether the ostensible feminists at Planned Parenthood really support women.

Meanwhile,

Lane says she witnessed a Planned Parenthood staff member with yellow and purple hair wearing similarly politicized t-shirts and jewelry, including a “smash the gender binary” pin and “they/them” pronoun earrings.

In a show of liberal tolerance, Planned Parenthood agreed to see Lane “in case of medical emergencies until 5/10/2024” — which is more compassion than you might expect from people who mainly kill babies for a living.

You can see why Democrats have made a priority of incrementally seizing control of healthcare. It gives them significant leverage to punish resistance.

On a tip from ABC of the ANC.

To work as a surgical oncologist, you must meet certain requirements. Prominent among these at UC Davis is compliance with DEI ideology:

Applicants for a job as a surgical oncologist must submit a “Statement of Contributions to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion,” to be considered at the University of California Davis.

“Contributions to diversity, equity, and inclusion documented in the application file will be used to evaluate applicants,” the job listing for an “academic surgical oncologist/breast surgeon” states.

Iran is considered a totalitarian theocracy because everyone is required to comply with Islam. But I doubt you need to submit a statement detailing your contributions to jihad to work as a surgeon. The ayatollahs running the place are fanatical, but not compared to the moonbats running our schools.

[W]hile a DEI statement is mandatory, a “Statement of Teaching” and “Statement of Research” both are listed as optional under the job application instructions.

You can’t prioritize everything.

The effect on patients’ well-being of surgeons being chosen on the basis of social engineering and/or political orthodoxy rather than professional skill is irrelevant to educrats.

It isn’t just UC Davis:

For example, San Diego State University’s job listing in 2022 for a cancer biologist also required a DEI statement, as reported by City Journal.

The subversion of the medical field by leftists and its subordination to moonbattery will lower the quality of healthcare and cost lives.

Then again, if janitors have to submit DEI statements to get hired, equity demands that surgeons should too.

On a tip from R F.

We treat lunatics who believe themselves to be members of the opposite sex by surgically disfiguring their bodies in a futile attempt to make reality conform to their delusions. How then to treat the growing number who trendily view themselves as nonbinary if not by plunging further into the realm of nightmare:

[L]eading NHS doctor, Jonathan Arcelus, a professor in mental health and transgender health at the University of Nottingham, … is a member of WPATH and works as a medical doctor at the NHS’s Nottingham National Centre for Transgender Health where he provides psychological support to patients as well as hormone treatment and referrals for gender-related surgery. …

[In] leaked WPATH messages, seen by The Telegraph, which form part of an internal message board discussing standards of care for non-binary patients, various members discuss a range of procedures, including patients keeping their original genitalia, as well as having all genitalia removed entirely.

The thread begins with one member asking how they come up with appropriate standards and best practices for non-binary patients, adding: “I’ve found more and more patients recently requesting ‘non-standard’ procedures such as top surgery without nipples, nullification, and phallus-preserving vaginoplasty.”

In response to the message thread, Prof Arcelus suggests that such controversial procedures may become “standard” in future, and, as such, should not be referred to as “non-standard”.

The NHS (National Health Service) is Britain’s socialized healthcare system. That puts taxpayers on the hook for these potentially standard procedures — as in Canada:

An Ontario resident has successfully secured public funding for a specialized gender-affirming surgery argued to be “experimental” by the provincial health insurer following a years-long legal battle.

He will go to Texas for the bizarre procedure at a cost to taxpayers of up to $70,000.

The prospective patient, identified only as K.S. in documents filed with the provincial Health Services Appeal and Review Board (HSARB), was seeking coverage under the Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP) for a penile-preserving vaginoplasty, a procedure in which a vaginal cavity is surgically created while keeping the penis intact.

Up pops WPATH again:

This week, [Ontario’s Divisional Court] ruled 3-0 that KS was entitled to have the surgery funded by the taxpayer after finding that the province had incorporated standards written by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) into its health insurance law.

More on this pioneer among patients:

As well as identifying as non-binary, KS also identifies as a “transgender baby” and a “little” who is attracted to diapers. In one post, he reveals that his bedroom is fashioned to look like that of an 8-year-old girl, and that he experiences spells where he is “obsessed” with incontinence.

Leftists have subverted healthcare. As a result, the medical field has sacrificed its credibility to pander to perverts.

On tips from Steve T and Chris Neilson.

Senselessly severed fingers are not the only horrors that have already come to pass as we slide down the slippery slope from sex change procedures. A Pandora’s box is opening, releasing as if through a portal from hell a phantasmagorical cornucopia of the heinous and bizarre:

The Crane Center for Transgender Surgery in Austin bills itself as a world leader in operations for non-binary people – those who don’t identify exclusively with one gender.

Curtis Crane’s practice also has locations in San Francisco and Boulder. Where you have a high concentration of leftists, nightmares are brought to life.

The surgeries include giving patients a penis and vagina, or completely removing their sex organs, essentially ‘Barbie-dolling your genitals,’ as one critic put it.

The center’s director, Dr Curtis Crane, has previously bragged he couldn’t ‘think of a surgical request that I haven’t been able to fulfil.’

Maybe he would be the one to ask about whole body amputation for body integrity dysphoria.

In the olden days, we treated mental illness by attempting to bring sick people’s perceptions into line with reality. Now it works the other way around.

On a tip from WDS 2.0.

Homosexual “marriage” has predictably reduced the public conception of holy matrimony to farse, with social engineers pushing polyamory and perverts demanding to marry their own children. Where might “gender-affirming care” (a.k.a. sex change procedures) lead?

Already unprincipled medical professionals are severing from their mentally ill victims healthy body parts unrelated to gender:

Ever since he was a child he’d had “incessant,” intrusive thoughts about his left hand’s fourth and fifth fingers, the sensation that they weren’t his, that they didn’t belong to his body.

Similarly, transsexuals are said to have known since they were rug rats that God had arbitrarily assigned them the wrong body.

The young Quebec man was so desperate to get rid of his fingers he contemplated building a small, makeshift guillotine.

Transsexuals can get their way by threatening self-harm. Looks like it worked for this guy too:

Instead, a surgeon at his local hospital agreed to an elective amputation in what is being called the first described case of “digits amputation” for body integrity dysphoria, or BID …

Patients were better served without the modern terminology, back when being crazy was called “being crazy.”

Expert Nadia Nadeau of the Department of Psychiatry at Université Laval declares this surgical disfigurement a success, writing that “he was able to pursue the life he envisioned as a complete human being without those two fingers bothering him.”

If you can become your authentic self by pretending to be a member of the opposite sex, it stands to reason that you can become a complete human being by cutting off body parts.

Dr. Nadeau characterizes this ghastly example of deliberate malpractice as “a highly satisfying curative treatment” because “amputation enabled him to live in alignment with his perceived identity.”

Someone send this lady a copy of Johnny the Walrus.

Once again, Scotland leads Canada in the race to absolute moonbattery:

In the late 1990s, a surgeon in Scotland amputated one leg above the knee each in two men who’d felt a “desperate” need to be amputees, and who had been turned away by other doctors.

Medical technology has led moonbat men to dream of having a uterus installed so they can get an abortion. Since all things are theoretically possible and nothing is forbidden, maybe one day doctors will treat BID by amputating whole bodies, leaving only the severed head resting in a dishpan of fluid like in The Brain That Wouldn’t Die.

On a tip from Steve T.

Not all black lives matter. The lives of black babies can be sacrificed to combat “inequities.” From Massachusetts:

The Mass General Brigham Hospital system … will no longer report suspected abuse or neglect to the state solely if a newborn baby tests positive for drugs after birth.

Instead, hospitals will now require written consent before conducting a drug test on the expectant mother or infant, in most cases.

The old policy saved babies’ lives but had disparate impact:

Mass General Brigham said the move is to address the “racial and ethnic inequities” present in healthcare, adding that substance abuse disorder in the context of pregnancy more “disproportionately affects Black individuals.”

The disparate impact was that it saved more black babies, since black mothers are more likely to be on drugs. That undermines the Narrative, according to which black problems are not self-imposed but rather are inflicted by the evil white man. So babies are sacrificed.

On tips from ABC of the ANC and Barry A.

Medical education has succumbed to the Long March Through the Institutions. It is no longer primarily about education or medicine. It is about indoctrination and moonbattery:

First-year UCLA medical students were forced to sit through a bizarre lecture by a pro-Hamas activist who made them pray to ‘mama Earth’…

Lisa Gray-Garcia gave the two-hour presentation at Geffen Hall, on the university’s downtown campus on March 27.

Participation was not voluntary.

The lecture was a mandatory part of the Structural Racism and Health Equity class that all future doctors must take, administered by pediatrician Lindsay Wells.

The qualifications of Lindsay Wells to educate doctors are conspicuous. As for Gray-Garcia, she…

…keeps her face covered with a keffiyeh except in a few interviews…

Gray-Garcia has pronounced the Islamic terror atrocities of October 7 “justified.” Consider the acts of satanic evil that were deliberately inflicted on innocent women and children on that day and then try to get your head around the Powers That Be forcing students to listen to lunatics who endorse them.

Students were instructed to touch the floor with their fists while she made a ‘non-secular’ prayer to ‘mama Earth’ and our ‘ancestors’, a complaint stated.

Let’s hope whoever complained did it anonymously, or their medical career is likely to be canceled, as with this person:

During a second call for students to kneel on the floor, one refused to do so. An unidentified UCLA faculty member is said to have enquired as to the student’s name, sparking fears they could face repercussions for refusing to comply.

Doctors might not learn which part of a stethoscope goes in their ears, but they are becoming well versed in liberal ruling class ideology:

[Gray-Garcia] claimed private property was a ‘crapitalist lie’ that killed ‘black, brown, and houseless’ people who were forced to live on the streets.

These are not harmless kooks; they want to hurt people:

At one point, she led students in chanting ‘Free, Free Palestine’, as UCLA faculty including Dr Wells watched in silence.

“Free Palestine” in the context of current events refers to the eradication of Jews from their ancient homeland.

Gray-Garcia did at least touch on the topic of medicine:

Later in the lecture, she called modern medicine ‘white science’…

The association of modern medicine with white people means that it is bad, which might be why she chose to hold forth on unrelated topics.

Education like this doesn’t come cheap:

UCLA charges medical students fees of around $44,000-a-year, with additional costs taking the total needed to train there to $84,000-a-year.

Good thing it is subsidized by taxpayers.

You cannot hide from liberals. No matter what students major in, so long as leftists control the schools, they are majoring in moonbattery.

On a tip from Ed McAninch.

The reason our moonbat rulers push DEI so aggressively is that it can be used to advance their agenda in countless ways — even to suppress Christianity:

Gideons, which distributes its free Bibles to not only hospitals, but also various other locations like hotels, and jails, is now blocked from servicing the Phoebe Putney Health System, which serves hundreds of thousands of people in over 40 Georgia counties and is one of the state’s largest healthcare providers.

First they used Covid as a pretext to block the Bibles. But unfortunately for liberals, Covid hysteria couldn’t last forever. So they switched gears:

A source […] with intimate knowledge of the situation said that Gideons was first restricted during the response to the coronavirus pandemic from entering Phoebe. The organization wasn’t let back in after COVID restrictions were relaxed and they attempted to resume their work last year. At the time, the Gideons were told their work was “a violation of the DEI policy and they would no longer be allowed” into the Phoebe facilities, according to the source.

The source said that the policy was “clearly anti-Christian” and that citing DEI to restrict the Gideons made no sense because Christians were being excluded instead of included.

Sure it makes sense, considering that “inclusion” is Liberalese for “exclusion.” Ask anyone denied a job for being white.

On a tip from ABC of the ANC.

As part of the subordination of medical science to DEI ideology, the Department of Health and Human Services has proclaimed that henceforth the FDA, CDC, and NIH will embrace indigenous knowledge. Here’s what that means for healthcare:

At least 50 people have died in Angola after being coerced into drinking a herbal potion to prove they were not practitioners of witchcraft, police reported on Thursday.

The deaths occurred in the past two months near the town of Camacupa, local councilor Luzia Filemone told national radio, claiming that traditional healers had used a lethal mixture in the procedures.

If you die from drinking the poison, that means you were practicing witchcraft.

Considering that this policy is implemented by “traditional healers,” they must regard protecting against witches as a matter of public health, just as some regard protecting against the US Constitution to be a matter of public health in the USA.

If Democrats hold onto power, they will continue to shoehorn healthcare into their ideology, which embraces the superstitious practices of savages. You had better plan on staying healthy for the rest of your life.

On tips from R F and Varla.

If “Dr.” Jill and the rest of Biden’s handlers would euthanize unborn babies for having Edwards syndrome, who is to say government-run healthcare wouldn’t euthanize you because Covid?

Explosive leaked documents have emerged that show medical staff were ordered to euthanize patients who had been admitted to hospital and tested positive for COVID-19.

The official documents were leaked from the UK’s state-funded National Health Service (NHS).

That would be the NHS that wants newborns to be “chestfed” with milk from chemically transmogrified men.

The docs further confirm the previous reporting from Slay News that revealed patients were euthanized in order to boost the numbers for “Covid deaths.”

It is alleged that elderly people were offed with fatal doses of midazolam, then added to the Covid stats. This helped whip up hysteria in support of lockdowns and vaccines. Killing older people also makes socialized medicine more affordable.

Something to keep in mind when they hit us with Disease X.

On a tip from R F.

Once healthcare has been socialized, it becomes a tool by which Big Government advances the leftist agenda. Here’s how Britain’s National Health Service inflicts transsexualism on innocent babies:

An NHS trust has said that breast milk produced by trans-women who were born as men is as good for babies as that produced by a mother who has given birth.

According to biology, “trans-women” are mentally ill men who dress in women’s clothes and sometimes subject themselves to induced teratosis through grotesque hormone treatments. However, biology has been overruled by woke bumper sticker slogans, according which “Trans-Women Are Women!”

In a letter to campaigners, the University of Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust (USHT), said that the milk produced by trans women after taking a combination of drugs, is “comparable to that produced following the birth of a baby”.

Comparable in that it is liquid and may even be white. Whether any sane person would feed artificially generated male milk to a developing baby is another question.

The hospital trust, which runs Royal Sussex County Hospital, Worthing Hospital and Royal Alexandra Children’s Hospital among others, was also the first in Britain to use the term “chestfeeding” in place of breastfeeding because it is considered by some to be more inclusive.

The well-being of children is less important than remaining at the vanguard of advancing LGBTism.

The proclamation that the freakish secretions of transsexuals are healthy for babies is not based on long-term data, because there is no long-term data. Never until the past few years has a society been sick enough to want men “chestfeeding” babies. Also, it would be unethical in the extreme to conduct studies that force children to ingest such a substance.

On tips from Steve T, Mr. Freemarket, Franco, and Chris Neilson.

Anything that succumbs to moonbattery is reduced to dysfunctional farce. Because the ideologically deranged federal government has arrogated a major role in research, this includes even the medical technology Western Civilization has developed to radically improve the human condition:

The Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention could soon employ “Indigenous Knowledge” in their research, a document obtained by the Washington Free Beacon shows.

The document is a proposed revision of scientific integrity guidelines for the Department of Health and Human Services, which encompasses the FDA, CDC, and the National Institutes of Health. Going forward, agency staff should employ “multiple forms of evidence, such as Indigenous Knowledge,” when analyzing data, the document states.

A pharmaceutical compound might be proven safe and efficacious through rigorous clinical trials. Or it might be revealed as safe and efficacious through the hallucinatory visions of a shaman high on mushrooms. In accordance with the liberal doctrine of relativism, both are equally valid.

Affirming the relevance of “indigenous knowledge” (a.k.a. savage superstitions) allows bureauweenies to proclaim their devotion to diversity/equity/inclusion:

“A strong culture of scientific integrity begins with ensuring a professional environment that is safe, equitable, and inclusive,” the report says. “Issues of diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility are an integral component of the entire scientific process.”

Scientific integrity is ensured by elevating the magical thinking of failed societies to the level of modern science, according to the depraved lunatics comprising the liberal ruling class.

Fortuitously, bureaucrats may be able to make the numbers add up even after they have finished incrementally socializing medicine by substituting witchdoctors wagging bones for medical care.

On a tip from Angel.