This is another case where the headline sounded too extreme to be true, but no, it's accurate.

Doctors, whose job is to provide medical care to individual patients, are embracing the language of the mob. By rejecting meritocracy (which they do, in their own statement), the AMA is committing themselves to encouraging the promotion of racially / gender correct individuals, regardless of whether they understand medicine better or worse than those with whom they are competing.

Think about that. This is the definition of a radical shift from trying to encourage good medicine (i.e. the most skillful, most knowledgeable providers, regardless of race/sex/gender) to trying to encourage good politics (the skin color of the doctor is now considered more important than his/her knowledge of medicine).

Will someone please explain to me how using someone's skin color / sex / gender as the dominant criteria for promotion leads in any way to more effective and curative medicine? All patients (all races / sexes / genders) suffer if the knowledge of the providers chosen becomes secondary in their promotion. If a white female doctor was able to recognize and diagnose a condition, but wasn't hired because the black transgender doctor who was unable to recognize that same condition was selected for "equity", patients with that condition - of whatever background - will receive inferior care.

The continuing suicide of western culture...