Dr. Richard Bosshardt Reveals Deadly Truth: Most Surgeons Aren’t Fit to Practice. Here’s Why.
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What is Dr. Bosshardt's stance on DEI in the medical field?
So let me ask you, you, 2022, became famous for a day or two because you got into it with the American College of Surgeons?
I'm still into it with them, yes. You're still into it with them? It's approaching its third year.
Its third year. Can you just give us a quick reminder of what that Contra Trump was about, what happened? Sure.
I am a surgeon. I'm a plastic surgeon, but I was a general surgeon for a while. One of the things that I did after I became a surgeon was to apply for fellowship in the American College of Surgeons, which is an honorary sort of a thing to have attached to yourself. If you become a fellow, you're allowed to put the letters F-A-C-S after your name. Yes. and something I sought to do. So I became a fellow on the ACS, American College of Surgeons, and went along for 30 plus years as a practicing surgeon doing my thing. And then what happened was in and around 2018, 2019, you could say I woke up. I realized that there was something going on in my area of surgery.
And it began with a transcript of a lecture by an invited lecturer to the American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress that they have every year. The lecture was titled, A Pathway to Diversity, Inclusion, and Excellence. That was the title of the lecture. And for reasons that I can't explain, I read it. I wouldn't normally have done that, but I read the entire transcript. I read it twice. And not once was excellence mentioned in there. And so I wrote a commentary that was actually published in the bulletin of the ACS, where I expressed some concerns about taking down excellence as the primary directive for surgery, for surgeons, and replacing it with diversity, inclusion. At that time, the equity, they didn't throw that in there. And that commentary didn't really do much.
So fast forward a couple of years, and you have COVID, which, you know, its own thing. And then you have the George Floyd killing. And I think you could realistically say that the country went crazy after George Floyd. I mean, everything from riots and whatnot to this pandemic. mass movement to adopt the idea that the country was systemically racist, and every institution, every organization was racist, and we had to radically transform the country. And the American College of Surgeons was no different. They jumped right on that bandwagon. And within weeks after the George Floyd killing, I mean, literally weeks, they had assembled a task force on racism, and they published this in the Bulletin, which is their quarterly newsletter. And the bulletin basically said that they were doing this to deal with racism in the ACS. It wasn't like, is there racism in the ACS? There is racism, and we need to ferret it out.
Like refusing to operate on black people?
Why was Dr. Bosshardt banned from the American College of Surgeons?
Not—that would be pretty extreme.
No, I'm joking. I mean, like, where was the racism in surgery?
It's almost as bad, Tucker. The idea is that— Well, let me take that step. They claim that surgeons were racist, that the ACS itself was racist, and that the practice of surgery was racist. And the reason why they made that last claim was because there are known disparities. We know that the outcomes for surgery are not as good statistically for, we'll just call it black and white because it just makes it easier to deal with that. That is not as good for blacks as it is for whites. And so the idea is that there's some element of racism or discrimination that impacts the outcome of surgery. And, of course, if you take that to the next step, it means that, you know, blacks are not getting as good care. Their surgery is not being as done as well and whatever. There's a whole lot of reasons why you can have disparate outcomes. But this was the one reason that they latched on to, and they have never let go. And then, have you heard of the term racial concordance? No.
Okay, that's a really important concept. And this is something that's being promoted by the ACS. The ACS has explicitly stated that blacks would do better if their surgeon is black. As simple as that.
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