![]() An Open Letter to the American Medical Association by Julio Gonzalez, M.D., J.D. Dear Sir and Madam, I read with great disgust your "Organization Strategic Plan to Embed Racial Justice and Advance Health Equity." Seldom have I read a more destructive, divisive, and inflammatory document by a professional organization, and I have never been more ashamed of being associated with the American Medical Association at any time in my career. The suggestion that our country owes anyone "equity" because of "past injustices" is revolting. My family arrived in this country in 1961. We have not been a party to any of the injustices that occurred so many decades ago, yet you hold my family, my colleagues, and me in the same light that you hold the cruelest slaveholder. How dare you say that I, a person who is forced to answer on a census form as being white/Caucasian, but who on a different question answers Hispanic/Latino/Cuban, should be in anyway held responsible for those who traded slaves and the African chieftains who willingly sold their tribesmen and women to the Europeans four hundred years ago? How dare you say that I, and every one of my colleagues who have spent our lives treating the poor, minorities, majorities, and anyone else who may stumble into our emergency rooms, legally or not, without bias or favor, and without any chance of being reimbursed for our training and our efforts, should be thought of as members of an oppressive consortium designed to inflict evil or inequity to those who we selflessly treat? How dare you join the countless number of camouflaged communists who furtively and purposely try to confuse those around them by conflating equity with equality? Ours is a nation built on the premise of equal standing under the law and only that. Everything else is to be achieved through excellence, dedication, training, and hard work. Equity, on the other hand, is achieved by fiat, by taking from some and giving it to others at the point of a gun. Few better ruses exist for the state control of the means of production than through the illusory promise of achieving equity instead of equal standing under the law. This is a dangerous track you are entering from which you and the social system you seek may never be able to return. You claim that we live in a land that was taken from Native Americans hundreds of years ago. That may be so, but you neglect that the same is true of all other civilizations on earth. The Babylonians invaded Israel. The Norwegians invaded England. The Visigoths invaded Rome. Rome invaded Egypt and North Africa. The Turks invaded Constantinople. The Mongols invaded Europe. The Germans invaded Russia. The Russians starved their people. The Germans committed holocaust upon the Jews. The Calusas ransacked and sacrificed their neighboring tribes. The Caribes attacked and imprisoned the Taínos. The Mayans continuously conquered each other and tore their victims' hearts out while they were still beating. Mao starved 69 million people and the People's Republic of China killed millions with their latest virus. Every single civilization, even those in Africa and the Far East, have conquered and been conquered. It is a fact of life and a staple of history. Your skewed and biased view of the events that took place between the Europeans and Native Americans while ignoring every other injustice carried out throughout history upon the very groups against which you point an accusatory finger is ignorant, hypocritical, and insulting to the 100% of us living Americans who played no part in the invasion nor were victims of the conquests. You have abused your position as the self-proclaimed purveyor of the medical profession to promote a self-proclaimed social(ist) agenda against the will of so many of those whom you falsely claim to represent. I will oppose you with all my being, all my strength, my intellect, and my voice. I will oppose you from here to the ends of the earth. I will oppose you because of your disgusting abuse of the great privilege that has been bestowed upon you, and because of the great insult you asperse upon me by suggesting that I carry anything other than love, charity, and good will towards every human being that I meet and have treated in my 30 years of practice as a physician. There is a magnificent document whose signers pledged their Lives, their Fortunes, and their Sacred Honor to a cause much greater than themselves. Today, I pledge the same in opposition of you. Here's to seeing the end of your filthy, disgusting, and vile organization. Julio Gonzalez, M.D., J.D. Former Florida State Representative Former Congressional Candidate Please support our ability to cover the events most important to you. Click here to join The Founding Fathers Club or donate to The Federalist Pages. Dr. Julio Gonzalez is an orthopaedic surgeon and lawyer living in Venice, Florida. He served in the Florida House of Representatives. He is the author of numerous books including The Federalist Pages, The Case for Free Market Healthcare, and Coronalessons. He is available for appearances and book signings, and can be reached through www.thefederalistpages.com.
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Katarina Lindley DO
5/26/2021 08:05:19 pm
Very well said Dr. Gonzalez. AMA has stopped representing most physicians long time ago.
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Duke Sommerset
5/27/2021 07:47:34 am
Sounds like the AMA "represents" physicians like the ABA "represents" lawyers: that is to say, only if they're card-carrying leftists!
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Matt Rowe
5/29/2021 10:27:26 am
You can add the CDC, NIH, and a whole list of other institutions to this letter
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Jenny H
7/3/2021 04:21:49 am
I couldn’t agree more!
Richard Mazur
5/27/2021 03:34:55 am
👏!!!
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Cristine White
5/27/2021 03:37:53 am
WOW! Excellent. You are a rock star!
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Candy Mausser
5/27/2021 04:33:31 am
The AMA is following the same ignorant and woke path as NIKE, Coca Cola, American Airlines and Major League Baseball, not to mention BLM and now our overseas US Embassies. None of them are listening to our citizens. Well said, Dr. G.
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Susan Kollmar
5/27/2021 05:25:14 am
Well said. I agree!
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Mike Hill
5/27/2021 05:31:45 am
You are right on target, Dr Gonzalez. Thank you for taking a courageous and vocal position against this nonsense from the Marxist left.
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Robert Greenwald
5/27/2021 05:35:11 am
Ditto all of the above and I would be shocked to see U being criticized for your brave and erudite writing to the AMA. We can only hope that you are not a voice in the wilderness of your profession. I suspect that letter should be in letters to the editor of your AMA journal and will be interesting to see if you can develop a ground swell of good against the further raping of your profession and our country.
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Captain Nathan
5/27/2021 08:07:34 am
Brilliantly written and a lesson all the “woke” out there need to read.
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James A
5/27/2021 09:00:22 am
I left AMA in 2010. After a decade-plus of developing meaningful healthcare reform policy the gave it all up and caved to Obamacare. That's when I knew their seat-at-the-table strategy was a loser. They're like the teachers union, lots of money and power; so much that the politicians can't take them on. We have to do it. Keep fighting.
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J Segraves
5/27/2021 11:47:42 am
Very well said, Doctor. With you 100%.
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Margaret Elizabeth Yerman
5/27/2021 12:26:26 pm
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Janis G Chester M.D.
5/28/2021 06:54:25 am
Thank you for writing this strong and courageous letter. I hope you (and all like minded Americans) will join the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons. Membership is free for non-physicians. We still stand for Hippocratic Medicine.
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MelBou
5/28/2021 10:27:57 am
Dear Dr Gonzalez, thank you for writing this important and eloquent letter. I'm a Canadian physician and I know the CMA will follow soon with the same kind of BS. Is there any way we could contact you to help us write a letter to our own organisation?
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Mike Hutchinson
5/29/2021 05:39:44 am
Thank you for taking a stand against this ridiculousness!
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David H Villarreal
5/29/2021 08:31:34 am
Very well said. Agree 100%
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Angela Damiano
5/31/2021 01:21:31 pm
thank you! well said
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Abigail Roofner
6/7/2021 06:57:51 am
Very well said! Thank you for fighting!
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Thomas Wiener, MD
6/7/2021 02:08:48 pm
Dr. Gonzalez
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6/21/2021 01:56:40 pm
The only thing missing from this very well stated letter/position is that Black Africans enslaved other Black Africans for hundreds of years before the slave trade began. Slavery (also seen in many other countries over certain people groups by other groups) continued long after slaves from Africa ceased in Europe and North America. Indeed, some Blacks presently in the US are relatives of those very slave owner/gatherers. For these facts alone, reimbursement is completely wrongheaded.
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Mark J Janicki MD
6/25/2021 02:11:49 pm
Words I wish I had spoken!
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Dr. Bob Hansen
6/28/2021 02:25:05 pm
This validates my decision decades ago to not participate in the AMA.!!
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Jennifer H
7/3/2021 04:19:37 am
One of the best exegesis on what has happened to our medical (and other) professions and society that I have ever read. Thank-you for using your incredible experience and education to stand up and fight this tyrannical agenda!
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Robert Bowden Jr MD
7/3/2021 09:52:36 am
Sir, I totally agree and unfortunately other specialty groups are following in lock step.
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Jack Buckley
7/4/2021 09:31:47 am
Very well written...hope it gets the readers necessary to begin straightening out some of the idiocies of today's so-called leaders...
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Paul Malbon
7/7/2021 06:36:00 am
I read your very truthful letter. Your letter needs to be read by all races, Senators and Congress members in America.
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scott w
7/25/2021 04:12:19 pm
An epic piece of writing. Very well said. Thanks for speaking up!
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Evelyn
7/27/2021 05:00:49 pm
Bravo! and thank you for saying what so many believe
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8/10/2021 09:44:50 pm
REBUTTAL TO GONZALEZ OPEN LETTER TO AMA
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Tom Wiener, MD
8/11/2021 02:19:19 pm
A rebuttal to a rebuttal
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Tom Wiener, MD
8/11/2021 02:35:51 pm
Mr. Cronk
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8/11/2021 05:16:37 pm
Reply to Dr. Wiener, and to others who may have seen my critique of Dr. Gonzale's open letter to the AMA.
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Tom Wiener
8/11/2021 05:29:04 pm
Jerry
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