One of the most disturbing things in higher education is the way medical education has fallen into the swamp of wokeness. The American Medical Association has been captured by the “anti-racist” cabal and professors who dare to criticize the DEI agenda will find themselves in hot water.
But there’s hope. A new medical society has recently been formed to restore the medical profession’s proper focus and integrity. In today’s Martin Center article, Duke Medical professor Farr Curlin writes about the Hippocratic Society.
He writes:
Founded in 2023 by a group of academic physicians, the Society is animated by a simple mission: to form and sustain clinicians in the practice and pursuit of good medicine. Behind that mission lies a more ambitious project, one that touches not only the future of medicine but also the possibility of renewing civil discourse within American universities.
That’s a tall order. Increasingly, medical practice is obsessed with politics and “identity” concerns. Students, professors, and practitioners are under pressure to conform to “woke” notions.
Curlin continues:
At its core, the Hippocratic Society begins with a diagnosis: that contemporary medical education and practice have largely neglected the moral formation of clinicians. Students master biochemistry, physiology, and clinical technique but receive comparatively little guidance in cultivating the habits of judgment, courage, and integrity that define excellent practitioners. Health systems, meanwhile, often treat clinicians as interchangeable “providers,” valued more for efficiency than for clinical excellence.
Quite a few chapters of the Society have been formed. This is an idea whose time seems to have come.