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Op-Ed

How America’s Obsession with DEI Is Sabotaging Our Medical Schools

  • May 3, 2023

‘I spent over 50 years as a physician and educator at Penn Med. Now I’m using civil rights legislation to protect the profession—and American patients.’ For better or worse, I have had a front-row seat to the meltdown of twenty-first-century medicine. Many colleagues and I are alarmed at how the…

Commentary

Does a Diverse Medical Team Improve Healthcare Outcomes?

  • April 27, 2023

Increasing diversity of the physician workforce is a dominant activity in today’s healthcare system and the goal of the millions of dollars spent by hospitals and medical schools on their diversity bureaucracies. One of the most cited studies to support the rather unlikely notion that merely diversifying a hospital staff…

Op-Ed

Medical Reparations Have Arrived

  • April 10, 2023

Changes designed to increase black patients’ access to kidney transplants pervert good medicine and punish white patients to right nonexistent wrongs. The Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) and the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) are implementing new policies to make skin color a…

Podcast

Episode Eleven: Pushing Back Implicit Bias Training With Professionalism

  • March 30, 2023

Dr. Stanley Goldfarb explains the false premises behind Implicit Bias Training and details Do No Harm’s efforts in the states and Washington, D.C. to educate policymakers and leaders that this “training” should not be the basis for continuing medical education.

Podcast

Episode Ten: Optimal Outcomes vs The Equality Approach

  • March 16, 2023

Dr. Stanley Goldfarb and Benita Cotton-Orr discuss how we should refocus the health care reform conversation on improving outcomes for all patients rather than the current race-based approach to treatment.

Podcast

Episode Nine: Standing Up Against Woke Ideology

  • March 2, 2023

Dr. Stanley Goldfarb and Benita Cotton-Orr discuss the role of government in implementing a woke approach in healthcare. Despite the federal bureaucracy’s embrace of woke ideology, they see hope in state-level politics and in emboldening medical professionals to speak out.

Commentary

My Testimony to the Kansas House – And How the State Legislators Reacted To It

  • February 23, 2023

On February 1, I provided testimony to the Kansas State Legislature’s House Health and Human Services Committee (HHHSC) to present Do No Harm’s position opposing the radical ideologies based on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and anti-racism that have infiltrated medical education and the healthcare industry. But some members of…

Op-Ed

Forcing Diversity When Lives Are on the Line

  • February 23, 2023

Our physicians should be the best of the best. It’s heartening to see leaders of a prominent medical school acknowledge reality (“Med Schools Are Wrong on Rankings” by Fritz François and Gbenga Ogedegbe, op-ed, Feb. 16). The reason many medical schools have decided to abandon the U.S. News and…

Commentary

Oklahoma Medical Schools Should Educate, Not Indoctrinate

  • Oklahoma State University, University of Oklahoma, University of Tulsa
  • February 17, 2023

Are Oklahoma’s taxpayer-funded universities pushing divisive and even discriminatory ideas? That’s what Oklahoma State Superintendent Ryan Walters asked all 25 state colleges and universities in a January letter. It’s a valid question, given the politicization of higher education, and the truth is essential to ensuring that…

Podcast

Episode Eight: Standing Up Against Woke Ideology

  • February 17, 2023

Dr. Stanley Goldfarb and Benita Cotton-Orr share best practices for standing up against the woke ideology that is infiltrating health care. From helping professors push back against DEI requirements for promotions to supporting physicians who reject ‘implicit bias’ training as a requirement for license renewal, the Do No Harm team…

Commentary

This Is What Passes As “Continuous Knowledge” at the American Board of Family Medicine

  • February 7, 2023

The American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) offers Self-Assessment and Lifelong Learning in a number of topics that many physicians use to obtain and maintain their family medicine board certification. Individual modules in the “Knowledge Self-Assessment” section also provide continuous medical education (CME) credits to maintain…

Podcast

Episode Seven: The Healthcare System’s Two Paths

  • February 3, 2023

Dr. Stanley Goldfarb and Dr. Benita Cotton-Orr examine the two paths that our healthcare system can take as we move ahead to the future, including considerations for access and how improving access leads to better outcomes. …

Op-Ed

Even progressive Europe won’t go as far as America in child transgender treatments

  • January 31, 2023

What do Europeans know that American medical elites don’t — or, worse, won’t even consider? Western and Northern European countries are generally much more restrictive in transgender treatments for children, with several recently becoming sharply more so. Yet America is doubling down on invasive and irreversible medical interventions for minors…

Commentary

Race-Based Medicine and “Gender-Affirming Care:” Two Faces of the Corruption of Medicine

  • January 24, 2023

We at Do No Harm are devoted to combating divisive ideology in health care. To date, we’ve focused on the rise of race-based medicine, most notably Critical Race Theory and the diversity-industrial complex that endanger patients by lowering standards and demanding discrimination. Now, another destructive ideology demands our attention –…