Press Release

Do No Harm Chairman Releases New Book Documenting Fight Against Identity Politics in Medicine

  • By Do No Harm Staff
  • September 30, 2025

RICHMOND, VA; September 30, 2025 – Today, Do No Harm is proud to announce the release of Doing Great Harm?: How DEI and Identity Politics Are Infecting American Healthcare―and How We Are Fighting Back, a new book written by board chairman Stanley Goldfarb, MD.

Doing Great Harm? is an insider’s account of the takeover of the medical establishment and medical schools by identity politics. Dr. Goldfarb documents the behind-the-scenes story of the successes and accomplishments of the anti-woke medicine movement since the launch of Do No Harm in 2022. He also explores how DEI and gender ideology have hurt medical care, medical education, and the healthcare system, and what work still needs to be done.

“I experienced firsthand the hold that identity politics had on the medical establishment when I was cancelled for simply questioning the supposed necessity of DEI in healthcare,” said Stanley Goldfarb, MD, Chairman at Do No Harm. “In response, we founded Do No Harm to combat the infectious spread of this divisive ideology. Since our inception, we have achieved numerous wins in the fight to restore integrity to medicine. From securing legal victories and filing civil rights complaints against discriminatory programs to publishing resources that help protect children from gender ideology, we have worked tirelessly to hold medical institutions accountable to the Hippocratic Oath. My book is a primer for anyone who wants the full story of how identity politics infiltrated healthcare, how we have countered its spread, and what remains to be done.”

Dr. Goldfarb’s book covers topics including:

  • Discriminatory DEI programs operated by medical schools;
  • Declining admissions and academic standards as medical schools prioritize molding physicians for social activism at the expense of medical science;
  • Medical journals publishing dishonest scholarship that serves an ideological agenda;
  • The U.S. healthcare system’s wholesale promotion of irreversible sex-change procedures for minors, despite Europe’s rejection of so-called “gender-affirming care”; and
  • Medical societies forcing “implicit bias” training and other racially charged theories on their members.

The book can be purchased here.

Do No Harm was founded after Dr. Goldfarb’s successful first book, Take Two Aspirins and Call Me by My Pronouns: Why Turning Doctors into Social Justice Warriors is Destroying American Medicine. Since its inception just three years ago, Do No Harm has submitted over 550 FOIA requests, filed more than 170 civil rights complaints, won numerous lawsuits, and published influential reports and resources including the Stop the Harm Database.

Do No Harm, established in April 2022, has rapidly gained recognition and made significant strides in its mission to safeguard healthcare from ideological threats. It has over 35,000 members, including doctors, nurses, physicians, and concerned citizens across all 50 states and 14 countries.