dr. marilyn singleton joins me now. great to have you on. i think this is one of the most important stories i have seen in the last while. and you shoot down this new requirement right out of the gate in that foxnews.com op-ed, you write if implicit bias were real, you would think that i would have seen it in 50 years of medical practice. i haven t, neither in how my peers have treated me nor in how they treated patients of different races. i certainly have never seen a white colleague provide worse care to a black patient. you say this policy, doctor, in and of itself is racist. explain. indeed. why would patients treat people differently based on race. they practice medicine with the feel of the hippocratic oath, back in the day it said we treat all patients the same whether free or slave. we have our mission, and that s
valid. absolutely. and i think the idea of teaching better bedside manner and communication skills would be good across the board. some people just don t know how to communicate well, but that does not mean that they are bigots and this is the problem. you can t call people bigots and it just takes away the collegiateness of medicine. john: i was fascinating reading the op-ed, it s a must-read. foxnews.com. dr. marilyn singleton, appreciate it. thank you. sandra: as we continue covering the chaos of 20 years of war in afghanistan we are following the future of an orphaned afghan baby who remains unclear in an unusual legal battle. u.s. marine attorney joshua mast and his wife were granted to adopt the child, but now the
especially from republicans. they will see closing the nexus, and the democrats will say far from a smoking gun but so far no reaction. sandra: interesting stuff, jim jordan says it s a bombshell letter proving it has connections to hunter s dealings. keep us posted on any developments from that. thank you very much, chad pergram. john: something else to pay attention to, a black california doctor says she is fed up with that state s mandatory implicit bias training for physicians, and she is now taking legal action to potentially bring it to an end. dr. marilyn singleton has a new op-ed out on foxnews.com, says the state of california is going backwards and is now enshrining racism a law.
Two California physicians and a medical advocacy group jointly filed a lawsuit on Aug. 1 against the state's medical board over "implicit bias training."