At some point, we are going to look back and regret allowing the left to politicize medicine.
The College Fix reports:
‘Total disgrace:’ LGBTQ nursing course called out for prioritizing activism over healthcareA Missouri lawmaker recently criticized a new LGBTQ nursing class at the University of Missouri at Saint Louis where students wrote songs and books to raise awareness about the “disparities and injustices facing the LGBTQ community.”The course, “Healthcare Within the LGBTQIAA+ Community,” was offered for the first time in the fall 2023 semester through the nursing and honors colleges, but there are no plans to offer it again in the future.Missouri State Rep. Chris Lonsdale, a Republican from Liberty, described the course as “a total disgrace to the healthcare industry and Missouri” in a statement to The College Fix late last month.In the class, students learned about “health disparities and injustices facing the LGBTQ community, including implicit bias, the lack of rights for same-sex parents and state laws targeting the queer community,” according to UMSL Daily, the school’s online news outlet.“Universities are worried more about pushing political propaganda than delivering real healthcare to Missourians. It’s a total disgrace to the healthcare industry and Missouri,” Lonsdale said.When asked what universities should do to fix the issue, Lonsdale admitted there is “no easy fix,” because colleges are “getting crazier and crazier in terms of their politics.”“Ending affirmative action and stopping the use of DEI statements on college employment applications would be a good start,” Lonsdale told The Fix. “Medical schools need to be focusing on the actual hard sciences and delivering real medical results not obsessed about social science and trying to socially train these doctors to be social justice activists.”University spokesperson Steve Walentik told The Fix via email late last month that the class was a one-time offering and will not be held again. Walentik said they offer a new course each semester focused on “social and behavioral sciences.”“Honors 2030 is a special topics course centered around inquiries in the social and behavioral sciences at the University of Missouri–St. Louis. Special topics courses are elective and often used to gauge student interest in a given topic,” Walentik said. “The fall 2023 course was focused on health care within the LGBTQ+ community.”
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