The official statement from the hospital refers to pregnant 'people'. That choice of vocabulary tells us all we need to know about the hospital's ideology.
In Washington State this would be illegal. All healthcare professionals are mandatory reporters of child abuse. I imagine they might be running afoul of reporting laws in Massachusetts as well.
As a mental health counselor i’ve worked with numerous clients who were exposed to drugs and alcohol in utero. It is terrible to see the life long struggle these kids and adults have. There can also be a dark side to it. Many struggle to connect cause and effect if the exposure was bad enough. Well what makes a sociopath? Not being able to connect how your actions harm others is a big step in that direction. I’ve had numerous clients with fetal alcohol syndrome and effects start committing violent crimes and sex crimes before they are teens. The ones that were left with their drug abusing mothers usually have a large dose of childhood trauma dumped onto the brain damage they already have. Assuming thats an accurate description. Harming a child like that should be criminalized if it isn’t already.
Also, add serious impulse control problems on top of struggling to connect cause and effect. That just popped into my mind too.
Then theres the adoptive parents when the kid is taken away. Who usually are blind sided by the behavior problems and spend 18 years very nobly and admirably trying to undo the damage. But its not all sunshine and roses when your kid sets the drapes on fire while you’re sleeping, or when they spit on a cop at random.
This is ironically also a racist policy. You’re leaving black kids to be abused when you wouldn’t with a white one?
Even trying to stay as factual as possible it leaves me a bit angry hearing this.
> Brigham and Women’s Hospital (part of the Mass General Brigham system) is undertaking a pilot in which admissions of patients with heart failure to specialty cardiac units is based partly on race.
Jeezum.... we're really headed towards full South Africa, huh? These types of policies do not affect the wealthy at all. The most "privileged" white people leave town. So it basically punishes the poor/working class.
There is no such thing as a "Woman's Hospital" anymore since womanhood is a social construct. It's just a hospital.
Fetal health is irrelevant since all fetus' can be aborted at will. They have no standing whatsoever.
Black people will ALWAYS suffer disproportionately at the hands of progressive policies. If they did not suffer, there would be no victim status. If there is no victim status, there is no reason to maintain these insane notions and policies. Black MUST suffer for social justice to thrive. Blacks will forever be the experimental subjects of the "well-meaning" class... they have become the playthings of social justice warriors...
This will affect people in Boston. Who gives a flying fuck what happens to Yankees?
Reminds me of a similar argument on a segment of NPR last summer, that routine drug testing is racist and discriminatory. The guest said, and I'm not making this up, that cannabis is perfectly safe, for mother and fetus, in pregnancy and often used and medically approved for hyperemesis gravidum, anxiety and sleep. No mention was made that endogenous cannabinoids play a role in the developing central nervous system and brain, and the use of exogenous cannabinoids --- weed, pens, edibles - can possibly have a negative, irreversible impact on the human being-to-be. The host simply agreed.
I was a doctor at the Brigham and lived within walking distance. If you look on Google Maps you’ll see that the hospital abuts on Huntington. On one side of this broad avenue lies Mission Hill, Roxbury and Jamaica Plain (mostly low income, black and Hispanic). On the other side lies Longwood, Brookline and Coolidge Corner (high income and white). Both are in the hospital’s catchment area and women from both sides come to deliver at the Brigham. You can guess which side has the most drug users, the most teen pregnancies or the highest incidence of fetal alcoholic syndrome. The contrast between these two populations is simply staggering. On the one side we have some of the highest educated people in the world, professors at Harvard, MIT and BU, CEOs, start-up geniuses. On the other side we have the third world. Mass General Brigham is trying to give equal service to both. The problem is that they don’t know how. No one knows how. With this new policy change they think they’re doing something. They’re not. It’s patently obvious they’re not. They’re making it worse. But it makes them feel good. It convinces them they’re promoting more equity. But this problem has no easy solutions. And shots in the dark like this may just make things worse. There is an old maxim in medicine: if you don’t know what to do for the patient, best do nothing. This sounds cruel. It’s actually merciful.
Black babies are more affected by drug use by mothers, so we will not report about drug affected black babies. I am trying to think of something more racist. Maybe someone else here in the comments section can, but I cannot.
We are in the end of days. Western civilization is in the death spiral. I keep thinking that there needs to be a civil divorce of the sane and insane in this country, because this is an insane policy. As a resident of Massachusetts, since our moderate Republican governor left office we have been on a spending spree that will bankrupt the state by next year.
The same thing happened under Deval Patrick. Now, with the illegal alien invasion, it will get worse on all fronts: economic, crime, resources, and education. But they don't care as long as flowery words are spoken.
We're all going to hell in a hand basket. As an old timey Ob/Gyn, I never, ever treated a pregnant "person". To a man (whoops), they were ALL female. This anti-racist crap has got to go. We tested people according to each individual's actions, not what skin color they were. Medicine has been invaded and taken over by the idiots of society, similar to other institutes of "higher" learning. Pity!
British Columbia just announced a new policy that health care workers shouldn’t try to stop addicts from using in hospitals and allow them to keep weapons under 4” long.
This follows on a court ruling that it’s against crackhead human rights to say they can’t do fentanyl in playgrounds.
The official statement from the hospital refers to pregnant 'people'. That choice of vocabulary tells us all we need to know about the hospital's ideology.
Well this is horrendous but lets stay factual.
In Washington State this would be illegal. All healthcare professionals are mandatory reporters of child abuse. I imagine they might be running afoul of reporting laws in Massachusetts as well.
As a mental health counselor i’ve worked with numerous clients who were exposed to drugs and alcohol in utero. It is terrible to see the life long struggle these kids and adults have. There can also be a dark side to it. Many struggle to connect cause and effect if the exposure was bad enough. Well what makes a sociopath? Not being able to connect how your actions harm others is a big step in that direction. I’ve had numerous clients with fetal alcohol syndrome and effects start committing violent crimes and sex crimes before they are teens. The ones that were left with their drug abusing mothers usually have a large dose of childhood trauma dumped onto the brain damage they already have. Assuming thats an accurate description. Harming a child like that should be criminalized if it isn’t already.
Also, add serious impulse control problems on top of struggling to connect cause and effect. That just popped into my mind too.
Then theres the adoptive parents when the kid is taken away. Who usually are blind sided by the behavior problems and spend 18 years very nobly and admirably trying to undo the damage. But its not all sunshine and roses when your kid sets the drapes on fire while you’re sleeping, or when they spit on a cop at random.
This is ironically also a racist policy. You’re leaving black kids to be abused when you wouldn’t with a white one?
Even trying to stay as factual as possible it leaves me a bit angry hearing this.
> Brigham and Women’s Hospital (part of the Mass General Brigham system) is undertaking a pilot in which admissions of patients with heart failure to specialty cardiac units is based partly on race.
Jeezum.... we're really headed towards full South Africa, huh? These types of policies do not affect the wealthy at all. The most "privileged" white people leave town. So it basically punishes the poor/working class.
Progressives are awesome at putting equity lipstick on the pure racism pig. And minorities keep falling for the lies.
A few fun points:
There is no such thing as a "Woman's Hospital" anymore since womanhood is a social construct. It's just a hospital.
Fetal health is irrelevant since all fetus' can be aborted at will. They have no standing whatsoever.
Black people will ALWAYS suffer disproportionately at the hands of progressive policies. If they did not suffer, there would be no victim status. If there is no victim status, there is no reason to maintain these insane notions and policies. Black MUST suffer for social justice to thrive. Blacks will forever be the experimental subjects of the "well-meaning" class... they have become the playthings of social justice warriors...
This will affect people in Boston. Who gives a flying fuck what happens to Yankees?
Reminds me of a similar argument on a segment of NPR last summer, that routine drug testing is racist and discriminatory. The guest said, and I'm not making this up, that cannabis is perfectly safe, for mother and fetus, in pregnancy and often used and medically approved for hyperemesis gravidum, anxiety and sleep. No mention was made that endogenous cannabinoids play a role in the developing central nervous system and brain, and the use of exogenous cannabinoids --- weed, pens, edibles - can possibly have a negative, irreversible impact on the human being-to-be. The host simply agreed.
I was a doctor at the Brigham and lived within walking distance. If you look on Google Maps you’ll see that the hospital abuts on Huntington. On one side of this broad avenue lies Mission Hill, Roxbury and Jamaica Plain (mostly low income, black and Hispanic). On the other side lies Longwood, Brookline and Coolidge Corner (high income and white). Both are in the hospital’s catchment area and women from both sides come to deliver at the Brigham. You can guess which side has the most drug users, the most teen pregnancies or the highest incidence of fetal alcoholic syndrome. The contrast between these two populations is simply staggering. On the one side we have some of the highest educated people in the world, professors at Harvard, MIT and BU, CEOs, start-up geniuses. On the other side we have the third world. Mass General Brigham is trying to give equal service to both. The problem is that they don’t know how. No one knows how. With this new policy change they think they’re doing something. They’re not. It’s patently obvious they’re not. They’re making it worse. But it makes them feel good. It convinces them they’re promoting more equity. But this problem has no easy solutions. And shots in the dark like this may just make things worse. There is an old maxim in medicine: if you don’t know what to do for the patient, best do nothing. This sounds cruel. It’s actually merciful.
Here -- I fixed it for you. Brigham and PEOPLE'S Hospital
You're welcome.
Black babies are more affected by drug use by mothers, so we will not report about drug affected black babies. I am trying to think of something more racist. Maybe someone else here in the comments section can, but I cannot.
We are in the end of days. Western civilization is in the death spiral. I keep thinking that there needs to be a civil divorce of the sane and insane in this country, because this is an insane policy. As a resident of Massachusetts, since our moderate Republican governor left office we have been on a spending spree that will bankrupt the state by next year.
The same thing happened under Deval Patrick. Now, with the illegal alien invasion, it will get worse on all fronts: economic, crime, resources, and education. But they don't care as long as flowery words are spoken.
Of course Dr. Sarah Wakeman teaches at Harvard. She should change her name to Wokeman. Boston Maskachussetts is the most demoralized city in the country: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/boston-the-departed-the-woke-retarded
We're all going to hell in a hand basket. As an old timey Ob/Gyn, I never, ever treated a pregnant "person". To a man (whoops), they were ALL female. This anti-racist crap has got to go. We tested people according to each individual's actions, not what skin color they were. Medicine has been invaded and taken over by the idiots of society, similar to other institutes of "higher" learning. Pity!
The poison of the disease of Woke.
British Columbia just announced a new policy that health care workers shouldn’t try to stop addicts from using in hospitals and allow them to keep weapons under 4” long.
This follows on a court ruling that it’s against crackhead human rights to say they can’t do fentanyl in playgrounds.
Because it stigmatizes them.
Mental retards in power everywhere.
This policy is clinically criminal.
Drug test every woman giving birth. Refer all who test positive to social services for mother and infant. Equal treatment, problem solved.
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