This surgeon is being savagely attacked because he refused to go along with the decision to implement Critical Race Theory in the College of Surgeons. We need to support people like this, they are calling on people to flood Yelp and other online sites with bad ratings accusing him of racism, etc.

https://rtbosshardt.com/2021/0...college-of-surgeons/

No longer a Fellow- why I am leaving the American College of Surgeons

After 28 years as a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, I am done. Although it breaks my heart, I will no longer be Richard Bosshardt, MD, FACS. If you want to know why, read on.

When I was in my surgical training, I first noted that some of the attending surgeons had the initials, FACS after the MD behind their name. I learned that this stood for Fellow of the American College of Surgeons (ACS). The ACS represents all surgical specialties.

Fellowship in the College was more than just a matter of applying, paying a fee, and getting a certificate. To be considered, you had to have an unrestricted medical license and be board-certified in a surgical specialty by a member board of the American Board of Medical Specialties. You had to have been in a full-time practice in one location for at least one year. You had to have unrestricted hospital privileges and no reportable actions against you. You had to have references from two Fellows of the College. Once you were elected to Fellowship, there was a ceremony at the annual meeting of the ACS, very much like a graduation ceremony, in full cap and gown, at which new Fellows pledged to always adhere to, and uphold, the highest standards of surgical practice and always place the care of their patients first and foremost.
Fellowship in the College was an honor and not all surgeons sought or attained it. I did, and attained Fellow status in 1993.

In the 28 years since, I have admittedly not been very active with the ACS, such as attending meetings, and such. With discretionary time limited, I always devoted more time to my national and state specialty societies. Even so, I paid my dues faithfully and supported the College when asked, such as writing legislators on issues relevant to surgery. I displayed my framed certificate and Fellowship pledge proudly in my office and had ‘FACS’ after my MD, like all other Fellows.

Recently, the ACS has taken a turn I find disturbing. I first noted this in a lecture given before the College by Dr. Joan Reede, a pediatrician and Dean of Diversity and Community Partnership at Harvard Medical School in 2019. Dr. Reede’s lecture was all about diversity and inclusion in medicine and, more specifically, surgery, even though she is not a surgeon. She checked off multiple progressive boxes in her lecture- diversity, inclusion, equity, biases of various sorts, microaggressions- as problems in surgery training and in the ACS. What was notably absent was balancing this with traditional surgical values of excellence, hard work, and meritocracy.

Subsequent lectures and articles coming out of the College, from the President on down, have been replete with progressive ideology and focused on issues of diversity, inclusiveness, equity, and social justice. All are laudable goals, but they have become poisoned with ideological meaning and taken primacy over other considerations, such as excellence, professionalism, competence, and compassion, which should be the overarching priorities in something like surgical practice.

Success in obtaining a residency position in any surgical specialty depends more on one’s performance in medical school, recommendations from one’s professors, and demonstrated dedication, such as taking a year to do research (as my daughter did to obtain an excellent residency in dermatology), than on gender, race, ethnicity, or some other identity. With medical school classes now 50% or more female and wide diversity in racial and ethnic composition, it is disingenuous to claim that our residencies and our College lack diversity or inclusiveness. Moreover, anyone who meets the requirements of Fellowship is welcome.

In the February Bulletin of the College, an article on diversity and inclusion in the surgical workforce included this paragraph: Although recruiting from and promoting inclusion of different demographic pools seems simple, it can be challenging because of what is known as the Dunning-Kruger Effect. This cognitive bias is a type of anosognosia that leads an individual to make an illusory, superior self-assessment. For example, a white, heteronormative male who lacks an appreciation or awareness of the importance of diversity fails to acknowledge this deficit, then incorrectly claims to be culturally dexterous. Such a cognitive bias ultimately risks perpetuation of the lack of diversity in the surgical workforce.”

The last straw came when I reviewed the recommendations of the College’s task force on racism in surgery, among which was adding anti-racism to the College’s existing values. My College is now embracing Critical Race Theory, which posits all of human history as little more than the never-ending oppression of non-whites by whites and views literally everything through a racist lens. There is wide disagreement regarding this even among those of color. According to CRT, it is not enough to declare oneself not a racist; one has to specifically support anti-racism, a construct of CRT. Why? Because whites are so endemically racist they no longer see this in themselves. Whites cannot even enter in the discussion of racism because they lack self-awareness of their own racism and must be re-educated to recognize their unconscious racist tendencies. The College has initiated such re-education programs already.

In addition to its new anti-racism stance, the College has embraced the concept of microaggressions, which can be literally anything- a comment, a word, a facial expression, even an almost imperceptible twitch or gesture- that makes someone of a different race, ethnicity, gender, or ideological position uncomfortable. Nuance, context, and perspective are irrelevant. There are no accidents or unintentional actions. Microaggressions are to be interpreted in the worst possible way. I was incredulous when I read that the College was planning ‘safe spaces’ for young surgeons.

I simply cannot support the progressive direction of the College. I have written the President, J. Wayne Meredith, laying out my reasons for dropping my Fellowship status, but have yet to receive any acknowledgement or response. I expected this. I am just one voice and have no clue how many others feel the same. It breaks my heart as I never imagined such a day would ever come.

R. Bosshardt, MD, (no longer) FACS

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Go to this thread if you want to see what they are doing to him online:
https://twitter.com/AmandaLuvs.../1386510215097593860

One example:

Might be more effective to target the wannabe fascists who are bullying anyone who disagrees with them. They need to get a taste of their own medicine and a whole lot more.

Yelling at people who are not racist to stop being racist is peak progressivism. I hope one day we can find the cure for progressivism.

Sadly, this is the direction ALL of medicine has been headed for the last 10-15 years. More and more liberal. Read a few editorials in the New England Journal of Medicine. It used to be a bastion of hard medical reporting. Now its almost become JAMA.

Surgeons are perhaps the most conservative of all physicians. We NEVER change simply for the sake of changing, only if it is proven to be beneficial to the patient and the practice and provides reproducible results.

To see the college pull this crap is beyond the pale.

I personally am glad to be done with the practice as I could not stand the direction medicine has taken in my lifetime were I still active.

RMD

it's not just medicine. it's corporate america. people are hired and promoted not based on merit, competency, meritocracy but on the color and gender (whatever the fuck that is now). this goes well beyond the abuse of h1b. we're hiring morons to meet quotas set by morons.

Unfortunately not surprised. As I indicated in another thread, the Life Sciences have probably the largest percentage of Progressives than any professional field. Easily 95% of my colleagues are Leftist and 85% of those are die hard. Science has/is suffering as a result and Covid is a perfect example of the bullshit taking place.

I have no use for politics/woke/social justice garbage in medicine. The last time I belonged to any of these medical organizations (AMA, ACP, AAP) was in residency. Seeing my med school now involving in all this kind of shit makes me nauseated.

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Originally posted by konata88:
it's not just medicine. it's corporate america. people are hired and promoted not based on merit, competency, meritocracy but on the color and gender (whatever the fuck that is now). this goes well beyond the abuse of h1b. we're hiring morons to meet quotas set by morons.

In January I left my job of 23 years and had them pay me out. Fortunate for the option. I still need to work, but I am starting my own business. I have had many many corporate opportunities but cannot bring myself to go back to the corporate world. As an “old white guy” - what I have been told on a few occasions - I am done. Can play the game better than most, but will now do it on my terms.

Corporate is a Sh*t show these days, just like medical and likely many others. It will self correct because ultimately, you need performance and this will be costly for so many. This surgeon is spot on.

I saw this coming years and years ago.
It was one of the reasons that I did not pursue a career in counseling or psychology.

Even since I was young I wanted to do a few things:
Go to Afghanistan, Serve in the Army, Be a Police Officer then go into Psychology.

There is no way I would survive now.
It is the same with being a PA. Why waste my money when it has become a liberal bastion.

The government, military, corporate america, etc..

It is really pathetic, sad, and frustrating watching America's relationship with it's heritage die.

Yup, coming to a workplace near you. Hope I can last another 4 years. Play act and regurgitate their shit or throw some honestly at them? I’m close to fuck you money, but not quite there yet.