A Surgeon's Warning: How DEI Is Negatively Impacting the Quality of Surgical Care, With Dr. Rick Bosshardt (Video)

In this 1 February 2024 video, the host sits down with Dr. Rick Bosshardt, a plastic surgeon in Tavares, Florida.

 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.

https://youtu.be/-MwsGR3YRXk

Dr. Rick Bosshardt is 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).