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Jeremy Morrison's avatar

There's plenty of time wasted in medical education. I am pretty sure I had a question about pheochromocytoma on almost every exam, but I have yet to see one. I had almost no education in critical appraisal, addiction, immunology, or many things I deal with every day. However, I don't think that is what Idaho lawmakers are worried about. Rather, they don't want students exposed to ideas those lawmakers find offensive. If they were smarter, they would be worried that kids exposed to diverse urban environments will not choose to return to Idaho.

Virtue-signaling is annoying, for sure, and in many ways does more harm than good when it makes people think they are actually doing something. You can see why people are trying to teach about SDH, though, even if they aren't doing it in a practical way. One thing that would actually be useful in medical education is a lecture series in the exigencies of poverty. Learning about how poor people live, why they can't afford the newest medications, how the copay for an MRI may make someone homeless - these would also seem like "woke" ideas to many, but they would be more medically relevant than knowing which chromosome abnormality causes a Wilms' tumor (sadly, I still remember).

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grrlrocks's avatar

You are conflating DEI & virtue signaling with "urban" ideas... Perhaps you don't understand what "urbanites" really think? Or, maybe you don't know what many of them think because many on the more conservative end are keeping their mouths shut, because they don't want their cars, or homes, or children messed with by the true vandals of our time - Leftists.

If you don't understand how so many people are poor, re-read Vinay's comment. Then maybe take a couple of non-woke courses in Psychology. "Poor" and "poverty" starts in the mind - how one thinks of ones self. It is inherently tied to how children are taught to think of themselves by their parents, their siblings, their friends, their "teachers". And, what they're taught to think about stuff. "Poor" has NOTHING to do with how much stuff you do or don't have.

Billy Boy Gates was asked on camera how much money and stuff and power is enough, when he's one of the richest men in the world, yet he still actively looks and creates new ways to make yet more money and get more power. He was silent, utterly silent.

Jesus' apostles and disciples would probably fall under "the poverty line", yet they had rich lives filled with hope, and friends, and love.

We need to stop equating "rich" and "poor" with stuff and money.

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