Press Release

Do No Harm Sues Louisiana Governor to Block Racial Discrimination in Medical Board Appointments

  • January 5, 2024

On January 4, 2024, medical watchdog Do No Harm filed a lawsuit against Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards due to unlawful racial mandates requiring the governor to exclude non-minority candidates for a certain number of positions of the Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners. The lawsuit, filed by the Pacific Legal Foundation on behalf of Do No Harm, alleges that the racial mandate is unconstitutional in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment. Do No Harm seeks a permanent prohibitory injunction preventing Governor Edwards from enforcing or attempting to enforce the racial mandate.

Commentary

The Nebraska Legislature Proposes Implicit Bias Training Requirements for Health Professionals

  • January 4, 2024

Yet another state is seeking to impose offensive DEI-related training requirements onto its physicians, nurses, and multiple healthcare professionals. Lawmakers in Nebraska have introduced a bill with the intent “to require implicit bias or diversity, equity, and inclusion training for medical providers credentialed under the Uniform Credentialing Act.” Legislative Bill 291 (LB291) will compel all healthcare professionals – even veterinary medicine providers – to complete DEI or implicit bias training on an annual basis.

Commentary

Rutgers University Shows Support for Radical Activist Organizations – And Seeks Med School Applicants Dedicated to Social Justice

  • Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Rutgers University Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
  • January 2, 2024

Rutgers University and its schools of medicine have long been dedicated to pushing politicized ideologies in its medical education programs and application policies, and the M.D. program selection process seeks to determine which of its applicants will be similarly committed to the social justice agenda. But most concerning is that the university’s activism has included radical and discriminatory causes. The Rutgers New Jersey Medical School (NJMS) in Newark and the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (RWJMS) in Piscataway both have active DEI offices with many of the typical “resources” to promote its social justice positions. RWJMS even says that its “racial and ethnic diversity and equity” efforts for faculty and student numbers specifically target “Blacks and Hispanics.”

Editorial

Do No Harm Board Member Edward Blum Named 2023 Man of the Year

  • December 31, 2023

It's not clear that the Civil Rights Movement could have succeeded without the Jews. Henry Moscowitz helped W.E.B. Du Bois found the NAACP. Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel joined Martin Luther King Jr. in King's march on Selma. Jewish donors supplied the capital for numerous civil rights organizations and black colleges, and in 1964, Jews made up half of the participants in the Freedom Summer project, a voter registration drive aimed at black Mississippians. So it's only fitting that the civil rights hero of our own time is himself a Jew—born to Yiddish-speaking cobblers, no less. Since the 1990s, Edward Blum has worked tirelessly to dismantle a sordid, state-backed regime of racial discrimination that has structured and subverted nearly every institution in the United States. His first victory, in 2013's Shelby County v. Holder, chipped away at the Voting Rights Act of 1965, a patently unconstitutional law that gerrymanders electoral districts based on race and assumes all minorities vote the same way.

Commentary

Racial Discrimination At the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society

  • December 22, 2023

Another day, another racially discriminatory medical program. The latest injustice comes from the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, which is “dedicated to creating a world without blood cancers.” Apparently, it thinks racial discrimination can advance that goal, based on its Underrepresented Minority Medical Student Research Program.

Commentary

Do No Harm Files Amicus Brief In Support of Oklahoma’s Law Protecting Children

  • December 21, 2023

Once again, Do No Harm is engaged in the battle to protect children from gender ideology. On Monday, December 18, Do No Harm filed an amicus brief along with the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs (OCPA) in the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. The brief asks the Tenth Circuit to affirm the district court’s decision, which held that Oklahoma’s law prohibiting the practice of experimental gender medicine on minors is likely constitutional.

Commentary

Virginia May Force Physicians and Nurses Into Divisive Training

  • December 20, 2023

Is Virginia about to attack physicians and nurses—and even claim they’re racist? That’s the question now that the state House and Senate have introduced legislation that would mandate “unconscious bias” training as a condition of licensure. Such training is insulting, unsupported by the evidence, and inherently divisive—all while paving the way for racial discrimination.

Commentary

Big Win: Oklahoma Bans University DEI Departments

  • University of Oklahoma
  • December 19, 2023

Three cheers for Oklahoma. On December 13, Governor Kevin Stitt took a major step toward rolling back divisive and discriminatory ideology at public universities, including the state’s two medical schools. So-called “diversity, equity, and inclusion” is now on the retreat in Oklahoma.

Commentary

Senior Fellow Stephanie Winn Comments on “Conversion Therapy” Bans

  • December 18, 2023

On August 10, 2023, the Detroit News published an article by Do No Harm Senior Fellow and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Stephanie Winn on the truth behind “conversion therapy” bans. Read Stephanie’s article below. Conversion Therapy Bans Hinder Real CareDownload…

Commentary

AAMC Pushes Race-Based Recruitment Tool Post-SCOTUS Ruling

  • December 18, 2023

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in June that the use of race-based admissions practices isn’t constitutional in higher education settings, including medical schools. But the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) continues to promote a recruiting tool that aggregates information on medical school applicants who “self-identify as being from groups historically underrepresented in medicine or who are economically disadvantaged.” The AAMC, which oversees the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) and cosponsors the accrediting body for all medical schools, appears to be continuing in their efforts to find ways to undermine the Court’s landmark ruling.

Commentary

Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine Scholars Program Is the Subject of a Federal Civil Rights Investigation

  • Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine
  • December 15, 2023

A program at the Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine (OUHCOM) is under investigation by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) for illegal racial discrimination – and the school wasted no time in scrubbing its website of the evidence. Offered in partnership with the Cleveland Clinic, the Physician Diversity Scholars Program “takes a proactive approach to building diversity” by being “open to all underrepresented minority medical students” at OUHCOM (archived page here). “Underrepresented minority for the Heritage College,” the website stated, “is defined as Black/African-American, Hispanic/Latino, Native American/Alaskan Native and pacific Islander/Native Hawaiian.” Limiting eligibility to specific racial groups while excluding others violates Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race.

Commentary

Mizzou Med Claims “No DICE,” But Its Actions Suggest They Are Still Fully On Board With DEI

  • University of Missouri School of Medicine
  • December 13, 2023

The University of Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine (Mizzou Med) said that it didn’t participate in the Association of American Medical Colleges’ (AAMC) Diversity, Inclusion, Culture, and Equity (DICE) Inventory, but its devotion to all things DEI raise the question of “why not?” The DICE Inventory is an 89-question survey that 101 North American medical schools participated in during 2022. Institutions voluntarily submitted their yes/no answers to AAMC, indicating whether or not they engage in specific DEI-related initiatives, programs, or practices. Last year, Do No Harm submitted a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to Mizzou Med for the school’s DICE Inventory response, but the Custodian of Records for the University of Missouri System told us, “I am informed there is no document responsive to your request.”

Commentary

The Joint Commission Requires ‘Safety Goal’ of DEI’s ‘Healthcare Equity’ for Organizations Seeking Accreditation

  • December 12, 2023

The Joint Commission (TJC) is familiar to healthcare professionals as the entity that has them scrambling to prepare in the days and weeks prior to an accreditation survey of their facilities. The patient safety realm is a large part of TJC’s mission to ensure healthcare organizations “excel in providing safe and effective care of the highest quality and value” for the public. But there’s a new National Patient Safety Goal (NPSG) that claims identifying patients by race and ethnicity – rather than as individuals – will make “safety” a priority. Based on an element of the Leadership chapter of TJC’s accreditation standards (LD.04.03.08) “which addresses healthcare disparities as a quality and safety priority,” NPSG 16 took effect July 1, says the TJC’s website. Although the accreditation requirements aren’t changing, TJC adds, “the change is being made to increase the focus on improving healthcare equity versus reducing healthcare disparities.” This is outside the usual tone of the NPSGs over the past twenty years, which traditionally focus on true patient safety issues such as improving staff communication and using medications safely.

Commentary

University of Missouri Medical School Official Propagates the AAMC’s DEI Mission

  • University of Missouri School of Medicine
  • December 11, 2023

The Association of American Medical Colleges’ (AAMC) powerful dual role in overseeing the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) and cosponsoring the accrediting body for all medical education programs in the U.S. puts pressure on the schools to adopt its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) agenda. Elite universities employ DEI proponents to embed this organization’s ideologies into all aspects of their programs, and the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine (Mizzou Med) is no exception. Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) documents obtained by Do No Harm show how Robin Clay, M.Ed., the manager for DEI initiatives at Mizzou Med, pushed out highly politicized AAMC events and trainings throughout 2022. According to his MU bio, “Robin is a passionate student advocate who is excited to train future, patient-centered, and socially conscious physicians.”

Press Release

Do No Harm Challenges Vituity’s (CEP AMERICA LLC.) Racially Discriminatory Leadership Program

  • December 11, 2023

Pensacola, FL – Do No Harm, a prominent national nonprofit committed to safeguarding healthcare from radical and divisive ideology, filed a lawsuit against the unlawful and discriminatory leadership program offered by Vituity in which there are leadership incentives exclusively for one race.   Vituity, a medical staffing agency, proudly promoted the…