Inside the Conservative Echo Chamber

Sally Satel
Center for Equal Opportunity
May 26, 2003

Multicultural Mental Health: Does Your Skin Color Matter More Than Your Mind?

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Think Tank
PBS
March 27, 2001

Has Medicine Gone PC?

"...has political correctness infected medicine?"

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Center of the American Experiment
February 20, 2001

How Political Correctness is Corrupting Medicine

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Sally Satel
American Enterprise Institute / Bradley Lecture Series
January 7, 2001

Sally L. Satel

Sally L. Satel is now a "Resident Scholar" at the American Enterprise Institute (2004). She is (was?) a practicing psychiatrist and lecturer at Yale University School of Medicine. She is (was?) staff psychiatrist at the Oasis Clinic in Washington, D.C. She writes for movement organizations such as the Manhattan Institute (City Journal), National Affairs (The Public Interest) and others. Sally Satel Sally L. Satel is now a "Resident Scholar" at the American Enterprise Institute (2004). She is (was?) a practicing psychiatrist and lecturer at Yale University School of Medicine. She is (was?) staff psychiatrist at the Oasis Clinic in Washington, D.C. She writes for movement organizations such as the Manhattan Institute (City Journal), National Affairs (The Public Interest) and others.

Now, her new book, P.C., M.D.: How Political Correctness is corrupting medicine argues that affirmative action and ignoramus patients organizations are ruining American healthcare. But Ivan Oransky argues in Salon that:

"Satel is a conservative ideologue in a doctor's white lab coat...Even Satel agrees that there is a problem in the delivery of healthcare to minorities. Rather than lambasting those who are trying to identify the source of the problem, conservatives should join liberals in trying to figure out how to solve it."

The Salon review concludes that "...she fails completely in her attempts to show that the menace posed by political correctness to medicine is anywhere near as serious as she contends."

The New Republic
February 13, 2001

Rich Man's Doctor

Holding up a straw-man group of "Indoctrinologists" who are somehow seeking an odious hegemony in medicine, sponsored conservative psychiatrist Sally Satel confuses the very real social causes of disease P.C., M.D. How Political Correctness is corrupting medicine, by Sally Satel, MDwith what she characterizes as "Political Correctness." Her new book, "P.C., M.D: How Political Correctness is Corrupting Medicine" comes in for a savaging by a sympathetic reviewer in The New Republic.

"So determined is she [to tar her philosophical/political opponents ] that she allows her intellectual standards to suffer..." Specifically, Satel, like so many sponsored conservatives, evinces a tin ear to the effects of race and class. "The perceptive investigator and clear-minded thinker...cannot help but know these things," writes the reviewer. "Her [Satel's] attempt to deny them..does her no credit. Worse yet, they make the reader suspect that she, too, has yielded to a political agenda, as pernicious in its own way as the one that she attacks with such diligence..."

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American Enterprise Institute's Claim: Soldiers Faking Post-Battle Stress

The American Enterprise Institute [Sally Satel] suspects that U.S. soldiers are fabricating instances of post-traumatic stress syndrome. Blogger Respectful of Otters dismantles the claims...

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Body and Soul
July 1, 2004

More Pills

... an op-ed by a physician from the American Enterprise Institue, Sally Satel, [warned that ] the World Health Organization was subjecting poor, HIV-positive people [to medical harm by] approving generic drugs that haven't been proven to work... but the fact is, generic drugs aren't normally tested. All they have to do is prove that they are chemically the same as the brand-name version