Medical students swear oath to honor past traumas rooted in white supremacy, colonialism, and the gender binary

This is one of those videos that you’d never believe if you just read about it online — you need to actually see it to believe it. As you’ll know if you’ve been following seminars on diversity, equity, and inclusion, they usually start with a land acknowledgment … you name the indigenous tribes that have been displaced by your building, your county, and your state.

At the University of Minnesota, medical students also recite an oath about the traumas rooted in white supremacy, colonialism, and the gender binary. Just watch:

University of Minnesota medical students swear an oath to "honor all Indigenous ways of healing that have been historically marginalized by Western medicine" and to fight "white supremacy, colonialism, [and] the gender binary."

They are being inducted in the cult of CRT. pic.twitter.com/v3YYKBq9OW

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) October 11, 2022

The speaker is Robert Englander and his credentials are impeccable:

–MD, Yale Med School
-MPH, Johns Hopkins
-Residency, Children's National Med Center
-Fellowship, Harvard Med School

And he's suggesting that shamanism and Western science are equally valid medical practices. pic.twitter.com/7F2djGcFik

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) October 11, 2022

Spoiler alert, all the medical schools are infected with this disease.

— Bleu Cheque (@VERBAL_CHANCLA) October 11, 2022

Gonna have to start paying more attention to the diplomas in doctors' walls. Assuming you ever get to see an actual doctor…

— nomaad.pdx (@nomaadpdx) October 11, 2022

Looks like a church service.

— John M. Cameron (@johnrockshomes) October 11, 2022

And in 20 years they’re all going to be incredibly confused as to why no one comes to see them or trusts what they say.

Medicine, as a profession, as we knew it, is dead. No more putting doctors on a pedestal. Time to be your own advocate.

— Big Inspired Life (@biginspiredlife) October 11, 2022

Hopefully these young recruits will learn to overcome their own baises and learn to "first do no harm."

— GRAHAM (@DanielJGraham4) October 11, 2022

This won’t end well

— Reeee (@Reeee80497554) October 11, 2022

These would be the first questions I’d wanna ask my doctor before a procedure. Thanks UM.

— Adam-Non Compliant/Establishment Anarchistic (@ThorNorseman) October 11, 2022

These med students will get absolutely cooked once they go into residency

— bofa (@bofa1745) October 11, 2022

Frighteningly extensive obligations, well beyond the usual promise to share knowledge, help the sick, not cause harm, never give or prescribe a deadly drug or assist anyone to use one.

— Colin Wynter KC (@QcWynter) October 11, 2022

Okay. Thanks UM for pointing this out. I will def go with the white supremacist western colonist medicine.

— Cloud ☁️ (@jade_in_US) October 11, 2022

Apparently, other medical colleges are adopting this modified Hippocratic Oath to cover contemporary concerns like Black Lives Matter and Transgender Day of Visibility.

Related:

WTAF?! A Boston hospital will offer 'preferential care based on race' and gosh, that sounds pretty racist, unethical, and ILLEGAL https://t.co/ECXzJutICG

— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) April 9, 2021