Posted on 03/23/2024 11:27:15 AM PDT by MtnClimber
In 2020, a quasi-governmental nonprofit that runs American transplant centers created a new formula to assess kidney function, ignoring scientifically determined body composition differences. Now nonblacks are being moved to the back of the transplant line.
This week, Professor Jacobson discussed Diversity-Equity-Inclusion (DEI) crisis within the nation’s medical schools with Sandy Rios of American Family Radio, for her Sandy Rios 24/7 podcast.
And what we found is that CRT/DEI, whatever you want to call it, I call it the racialization of education, is deeply permeated throughout medical schools. And in some ways, it’s worse in medical schools than in higher ed in general. So we found out about it because we were interested more generally in the education topic, and then we started to get complaints and tips from people about medical schools.
The push for race-based preferences is impacting other areas of medicine as well. DEI readjustments are now being made for calculations based on the medical records associated with patients who have kidney issues and may require organ transplants.
The likely consequence of the new decision matrix that is intended to speed up transplants for black patients is the death of nonblacks who more urgently need the organs.
Kidney function is assessed by determining how efficiently the organs are removing creatinine, which is a chemical waste product of creatine. Creatine is a chemical made by the body and is used to supply energy mainly to muscles. Creatinine is removed from the body entirely by the kidneys.
When determining the advancement of kidney disease, doctors use an estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) to determine how fast the kidneys are removing excess creatinine from the body, and the kidney transplant list uses the eGFR to determine the order in which patients would receive kidneys.
Rationally, the eGFR included an ethnicity-based calculation to account for the different normal levels of creatinine, so that really sick people would get transplants first, and people who were not sick would not get a transplant that they did not need....
Yeah you better have a lot of money.
Medicine is becoming murder.
“First do no harm” has been thrown out the window.
Dats whut DEI be.
“Yeah you better have a lot of money”
Yes, and/or credit. And prayers.
word...
The Reasonable People were and are too passive.
“My response could be to remove my organ donator status.”
Don’t say that too loudly. They may be intending to move us toward the ChiCom system of “involuntary organ donation status”.
“Medicine is becoming murder.”
Becoming?
(D)idn’t (E)arn (I)t.
Another chapter in the Story of My Life: I was qualified & accepted on a kidney list a year ago. My appointment this month said I could expect to be well up the list & in sight of a transplant in about 18 months. That was the signal for TPTB to move the goal post I guess.
I wish you well.
Thanks - confidence remains strong. Not on dialysis & hoping to maintain that status until the surgery.
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