About the Program
In this Encore Booknotes from May 2001, practicing psychiatrist Sally Satel joins host Brian Lamb in discussing her book "PC M.D.: How Political Correctness is Corrupting Medicine." According to Dr. Satel, political correctness is adversely affecting the practice of medicine in this country. She asserts that the trend toward taking race, sexual orientation and oppression by society into account when organizing treatment is deflects the focus from science-based healing and prevention. Dr. Satel argues that medical practice of this nature diverts taxpayer money that could be better spent improving the delivery of health care, providing proven therapies and researching new ones.
Sally Satel
Sally Satel is a lecturer at Yale University School of Medicine, a staff psychiatrist at the Oasis Clinic in Washington DC, and W.H. Brady Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. She has written numerous articles on health issues that have appeared in dozens of academic journals, as well as The Wall Street Journal, The New Republic, The New York Times, and SLATE.
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