Not a member any longer but if the tenor of the questions posted are accurate there is a clear preference that DEI is beneficial. The actions of the ASTRO Board in the last 3-4 years indicate that they are completely on board with DEI and are afraid of transparency. Inviting Kendi as a keynote speaker was absurd in my view. The Board has also forced DEI metrics down the throats of editors of the ASTRO journals. Simul has documented some of their actions not to mention the memory holing of the 2023 panel on Workforce. The decision to weigh in on the events of J6 was shortsighted. Finally, the Board felt compelled to make a statement on the events of October 7 in Gaza. The Board should be focused on the discipline of radiation oncology.
Yes, yes...this is a list of grievances. But it does not address my questions (which are focused)…namely, do we have evidence that the aforementioned survey is: 1. offered in bad faith, 2. a potential tool to punish people that is not appropriately anonymized or 3. does not allow for open ended feedback outside of scripted multiple choice answers (i.e. is just a gamed referendum with leading questions and answers).
I am not claiming that DEI initiatives are the reason for ROCR, residency expansion, etc. I am claiming that the Board needs to focus on the things that matter for radiation oncologists. I would submit that DEI is far down the list for most.
Huge. Has ASTRO (or any medical professional organization) addressed non-competes in recent history?
Because a CEO said it’s ethical and got an attorney to say it’s legal
Increasing restrictions on sequential contracts is a real issue in this field as we have almost no lateral mobility. If a chair wants to increase the scope of the non-compete on a second contract, what are you going to do, pick up your family and move across the country? This is another way the job market in radonc contributes to burnout. In my town, the NCI pps exempt institution insists on non competes for the radoncs, but not all of the medoncs (because of market forces) And medoncs can take pts with them while radoncs generally can’t.
Nah, that's not it.
Nobody is arguing that increased work for all of us under a fair production model would not be a good thing.
Any barriers to commenting on the wording of the survey.
I completely support your response but (based on face to face conversations with ASTRO leadership in which I made similar statements) I am very confident that nothing of this sort would ever be published. I can't predict the future but past actions of the Board have suggested that they are not on board with heterodox thinking. Ask the editors of the ASTRO journals.
In general, terms that could easily be mistaken for being in 1984 should raise immediate scrutiny.
Yes, I have agreed with much that has been said here. And agree with the tweet I saw. Otoh, citing that asshat diminishes this thread.
Like it was genetically predispositioned to reach this status. Hmmm.
I'm going to focus on the views, not the person submitting those views.
What’s the opposite. Damel? Chickel? Harridanel?
Missinformation?
Glad to see Rad Onc continues to live on the bleeding edge of research.
Your mistake is thinking this is unique to rad onc.
This is the guy who tweeted "no one forces anyone to have sex" with regard to overturning Roe vs. Wade in the circumstance of rape.Murphy Introduces Bill to Ban DEI in Medicine
Washington, D.C. — Congressman Greg Murphy, M.D. introduced the Embracing anti-Discrimination, Unbiased Curricula, and Advancing Truth in Education (EDUCATE) Act to ban race-based mandates at medical schools and accrediting institutions.murphy.house.gov
Which, as completely bat **** insane as it is, is potentially the most normal thing a North Carolina Republican has said in a long time.
It’s crazy we have people here who are physicians who truly believe just because someone is a republican and pro life they think that Rep/Dr. Greg Murphy would think rape is consensual. Let’s give a little benefit of the doubt. He was talking about abortion between consensual partners and abortion under those circumstances. Just to show that republican pro lifers are actual thinking humans here is what he said when he was taken out of context:
I'm sure with his logical consistency, he's a big anti-Trump guy, given he must find him abhorrent and all.
I'm sure it was an off the cuff tweet and did not represent his true feelings.
Perhaps not. But perhaps should lead you to “consider the source.”
Politics is a dirty business. Everyone used to understand this. Now it's about running cover for literally everything from your team because the other side is partisan and terrible, and we're doing God's work. This is a slippery slope to censorship and authoritarianism. I promise you, for every sociopolitical topic you are passionate about, I can find scores of famous asshats who support it who have made total fools of themselves on social media (as is the nature of social media). I'm not sure what's going to happen to us if we are considering everything from the other side the same way we would consider press releases from North Korean state media. I guess we'll find out.
Birth control fails, fetal anomalies are detected....
Saw this paper again since it was published in Mar 2024 red journal. Looked at some of the numbers. The breakdown amongst ASTRO faculty was 1573 men and 1169 women. The data they reference for all ASTRO members was 3766 men and 1574 women. 74% of all female ASTRO members were faculty at an ASTRO meeting between 2018 - 2021!? I understand that not every ASTRO faculty would be an ASTRO member, but even if pulling from non-ASTRO members how far would that number change? And 2742 individual faculty, over 4 years 685 individuals? Not sure how the same faculty members were handled across the analysis should they have given multiple talks/moderator/etc across the time period. Still found that to be a bit surprising, so if the numbers are questionable the following analyses may not hold.
Wait...wait a second...
