{"id":7735,"date":"2020-11-15T20:26:09","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T00:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=7735"},"modified":"2020-11-15T20:39:46","modified_gmt":"2020-11-16T00:39:46","slug":"why-are-we-calling-for-the-politicization-of-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2020\/11\/15\/why-are-we-calling-for-the-politicization-of-medicine\/","title":{"rendered":"Why are we calling for the politicization of medicine?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/NoneSense-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7736\" width=\"156\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/NoneSense-1.jpg 225w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/NoneSense-1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 156px) 85vw, 156px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Medicine is all about serving ALL patients with dignity\nand compassion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why are we asking the <em>American Medical Association <\/em>to recognize <em>Black Lives Matter<\/em> (BLM)?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Bambi&#8217;s non-expert citizen opinion, especially following her second life in a country torn by civil war, medicine should be free of ideologies, particularly the ones which are radical and into racialization!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Medicine should be above politics, period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a danger game. This is a potentially racist game even.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For healthcare providers, ALL lives should matter, regardless of a so-called skin colour of a patient. This includes black lives as well as all lives. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/meetingcoverage\/ama\/89682\">https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/meetingcoverage\/ama\/89682<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medicine is all about serving ALL patients with dignity and compassion. Why are we asking the American Medical Association to recognize Black Lives Matter (BLM)? In Bambi&#8217;s non-expert citizen opinion, especially following her second life [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7735"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7735"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7739,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7735\/revisions\/7739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}