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SHOULD THEY REALLY BE CALLED "DOCTOR"?  From Fox:  Columbia University received intense backlash online after a resurfaced video showed medical students reciting a revised version of the Hippocratic Oath that included tenets of critical race theory.  The video, posted by nonprofit Mythinformed Milwaukee, shows the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons Class of 2025 during a White coat ceremony reciting an oath led by Lisa Mellman, MD, a senior associate dean for student affairs and the Samuel Rudin Professor of Psychiatry.  According to a news release on the Columbia University Irving Medical Center website, the August 2021 ceremony was the first time in the medical school's 255-year history that the incoming medical students recited their personalized Class Oath, a spin on the Hippocratic Oath to "better reflect the values [students] wish to uphold as they enter their medical training.  The students must take the original Hippocratic Oath and have the opportunity to participate in the student-led initiative. In the future, each class will have the chance to create its own Oath."  The "New Hippocratic Oath" reciting was also published on the Columbia University YouTube channel and included the pledge in full.  "We enter the profession of medicine with appreciation for the opportunity to build on the scientific and humanistic achievements of the past. We also recognize the acts and systems of oppression effected in the name of medicine. We take this Oath of service to begin building a future grounded in truth, restoration, and equity to fulfill medicine's capacity to liberate," the Oath begins.  Imagine, in less than a decade we'll be able to go to a doctor who is board certified in socialism.  To our good health.

February 14, 2023