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"We are going to see a radical decline in the quality of surgery in this country" -Dr. Celia K. Nelson Celia K. Nelson, M.D., F.A.C.S is a General Surgeon who has been A fellow of the American College of Surgeons since 1995. An excerpt from Dr. Nelson's letter to the American College of Surgeons: "Racism, prejudice, and misogyny are all real, but in America, they are not enough to stop you unless you let them. I am proof that success and achievement of your dreams do not require that you be a particular gender or have a certain skin color. I believe that positive and constructive approaches to diversity will get us a lot further than being perpetually suspicious, offended and victimized. College leadership invited Ibram Kendi as the keynote speaker at this month’s leadership retreat, and yet they continue to deny that they are embracing ideology as they address diversity, equity, and inclusion. I will no longer sit by idly as the College promotes and implements this divisive, corrosive, illogical, illiberal ideology. My life and my success are evidence that this ideology is plainly wrong." Links: https://donoharmmedicine.org Rick Bosshardt, M.D., F.A.C.S has been a plastic surgeon in Tavares, FL for 35 years. A graduate of the University of Miami Leonard Miller School of Medicine, he trained as a general surgeon in the US Navy in Oakland, CA and was board-certified by the American Board of Surgery. He completed his residency in plastic surgery at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital program under world-reknown plastic surgeon, D. Ralph Millard and began his own practice in 1989. He is board-certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery, a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons for over thirty years, a Senior Fellow at Do No Harm (www.donoharmmedicine.org), and a Founding Fellow of FAIR in Medicine (www.fairforall.org/fair-in-medicine). For 25 years he wrote a weekly medical column for the Orlando Sentinel. In 2021, he began to push back against the installation of antiracism and DEI in the American College of Surgeons and, in April 2022, was banned for life by the leadership from engagement with his fellow surgeons on the ACS website. He continues his battle with the ACS to this day. Links from Dr. Bosshardt: His book: The Making of a Plastic Surgeon: Two Years in the Crucible Learning the Art and Science https://a.co/d/8cnLgM5 https://substack.com/@richardtbosshardtmd https://www.wsj.com/articles/critical-race-theory-is-bad-medicine-college-surgeons-discuss-kendi-forum-crt-health-care-11663186602 https://www.city-journal.org/article/isolated https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/10/the-american-college-of-surgeons-doubles-down-on-anti-racism/ https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/12/its-dei-or-bust-for-the-american-college-of-surgeons/ https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/2815848/its-not-just-harvard-woke-healthcare-leaders-are-unfit-to-lead-too/ My petition: https://www.change.org/ACS-petition-reinstate-Bosshardt _____________________________________________________________________ If you would like to contact me, my website is: https://theradicalcenterconsulting.com/ and I am on twitter @JLeslieElliott And if you appreciate this ongoing project and would like to support my continued work in this area you can chip in at any of the following (thank you very much!): https://www.paypal.me/jleslieelliott https://www.buymeacoffee.com/radicalcenter https://www.patreon.com/theradicalcenter