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We spend a fair amount of time talking the bias at universities (perceived or otherwise), but we don’t talk about one kind of school too often: med school. In today’s Washington Times, Dr. Jason D. Fodeman lays into the med school established order for the lack of debate surrounding the nation’s health care system:

Research from George Mason University has better quantified this problem, concluding that the ratio of tenure-track faculty registered as Democrats to those registered as Republicans across all departments at 11 California universities was an astonishing 5-1. This same bias dominates our nation’s medical schools and academic medical centers as well.

Some might find the immersion of an agenda into medical schools quite surprising. After all, while the average English 101 class can easily reflect the personal opinions of the professor and his respective institution, material as seemingly objective as biochemistry or endocrinology would appear to be above politics as usual.

Yet even in a web of pathophysiology, human anatomy and countless disease syndromes, at many medical schools, one does not need a microscope to notice an anti-industry and pro-preventive-medicine bias peeking through the curriculum.

Certainly, health care policy and the structure of the nation’s health care system are fair game for debate in medical school. The problem, in my experience, is there never was any debate.

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