From the American Medical Association’s Organization Strategic Plan to Embed Racial Justice and Advance Health Equity:
We acknowledge that we are all living off the taken ancestral lands of Indigenous peoples for thousands of years.
From “Prioritizing Equity video series: Police Brutality & COVID-19” (AMA):
I am Dr. Aletha Maybank, I am chief health equity officer at the American Medical Association over the Center for Health Equity. … We work to ensure equitable opportunities and conditions and innovation for marginalized and minoritized people and communities. … So I first want to recognize and acknowledge the land in which we are all sitting on and the Indigenous people who have been here for thousands of years before us, whose land was dispossessed at the same time, able to thrive and survive till this day.
(Doctors accuse the police of “brutality” (see the title), but aren’t doctors collectively a principal reason why lower income Americans end up entangled with the police? Medical bills, oftentimes starting at 5-10X what an insurance company would have paid, lead to evictions and personal bankruptcy (see “Enforcing Eviction: As a national housing crisis approaches, the police side with property against people.” (The Nation)).)
From the American Medical Association’s Advancing Health Equity: Guide to Language, Narrative and Concepts:
The Association of American Medical Colleges’ headquarters is located in Washington, D.C., the traditional homelands of the Nacotchtank, Piscataway and Pamunkey people. The American Medical Association’s headquarters is located in the Chicago area on taken ancestral lands of indigenous tribes, such as the Council of the Three Fires, composed of the Ojibwe, Odawa and Potawatomi Nations, as well as the Miami, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Sac, Fox, Kickapoo and Illinois Nations.
Doctors are fairly rich. If they admit that they’re on stolen (“taken”) land, why don’t they give the land back to the nearest Native American and then pay him/her/zir/them rent?
Separately, the above language guide contains some helpful tips. It is not “individuals” but “survivors”; it is not “the obese” but “people with severe obesity” (remember that, whatever the term used, the #science-informed optimum medical response to a virus that attacks the obese is a next-to-the-fridge lockdown!):
Sometimes it is not that hard to achieve equity:
Sometimes it is, in fact, way easier than you’d think:
A revenue source by any other name would be just as lucrative?
If you hire people of only one skin color, that’s a “race-conscious” process:
How many enslaved persons show up at the typical U.S. healthcare facility?
If Justin Trudeau’s use of 2SLGBTQQIA+ has you scratching your head, turn to the glossary:
(“It is also not a term that can be used by a non-Indigenous person” yet there is no indication that a Native American contributed to this document. Isn’t putting the term in a glossary a “use” of the term?)
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