The fight to keep politics out of medicine

Dr. Stanley Goldfarb’s Doing Great Harm? isn’t another anti-woke broadside. It’s something rarer: a first-hand dispatch from a man who spent half a century inside the medical establishment, watched it lose its bearings, and decided to do something about it.

The story begins with his own cancellation at the University of Pennsylvania’s medical school and the online medical encyclopedia UpToDate, banished for the crime of asking whether lowering standards in the name of diversity might, in fact, harm patients. The fallout was predictable — what followed was not. Rather than retreat quietly, Goldfarb founded Do No Harm, a national network of physicians, nurses, and patients determined to push back against what he calls the “ideological capture” of medicine.

Read the full story at The Washington Examiner.