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Media Mention, Video

Alarming report shows antisemitism soaring in US medicine

  • November 28, 2023

Do No Harm board chair Dr. Stanley Goldfarb joins ‘America’s Newsroom’ to discuss his organization’s report that found identity politics have been adopted by U.S. medicine and resulted in a ‘fertile ground’ for antisemitism.

Op-Ed

Goldfarb: CRT Fuels Campus Anti-Semitism

  • November 28, 2023

Conventional wisdom holds that the current outpouring of anti-Semitism on college campuses is just the latest outburst of an ancient hatred. There’s no doubt that hatred of Jews has a long history. What’s happening today also bears the hallmark of a newer evil: Critical Race Theory (CRT). The language that…

Op-Ed

‘DEI’ Is an Enemy of Free Speech, Not a Friend

  • November 21, 2023

How do you know when the good guys are winning? When the bad guys start denying what they’re really doing. Such is the case with the most ardent defenders of “diversity, equity, and inclusion” in higher education. More states are trying to drive this divisive and discriminatory ideology off the college…

Media Mention, Video

Culture War | Medical Societies Captured by Woke Worldview

  • November 15, 2023

Dr. Stanley Goldfarb joins the Moms on a Mission Podcast again to discuss his book, “Take Two Aspirin And Call Me By My Pronouns” and the infection of social justice and opinion- based medicine into American medicine. He exposes the fact that there is no evidence based data being used…

Op-Ed

How DEI Inspires Jew Hatred

  • November 2, 2023

Hell hath no fury like a donor scorned.  In recent days, a generous supporters have withdrawn or threatened to withdraw financial support from the University of Pennsylvania, where I used to teach. The list includes former U.S. ambassador Jon Huntsman, hedge-fund tycoon Cliff Asness, and…

Op-Ed

The Danger of Elevating Diversity over Quality in Medicine

  • October 10, 2023

We now have even more evidence that a lowering of standards in service of diversity is doing real harm to the medical profession. Diversity is good, but it should never come at the expense of quality. That’s especially true in fields like my own medical profession. For years, the medical establishment…

Op-Ed

Medical Doctors, or Social Workers?

  • September 1, 2023

Can your doctor cure poverty? How about homelessness? Food insecurity? For that matter, does your doctor treat the legacy of slavery and racial discrimination?

Op-Ed

Medical Education Is Infected with DEI

  • University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
  • June 28, 2023

A few months ago, I was summarily fired as an editor-in-chief of the kidney section of the most widely used medical reference. UpToDate is used by tens of thousands of physicians every day, helping them make the best and most timely decisions for patient care. Even as I was fired, UpToDate’s…

Op-Ed

Cancel Culture Comes for Philly’s Weirdest Museum

  • June 15, 2023

Is a 9-foot human colon a symbol of colonialism? Don’t laugh. That question threatens to destroy a beloved and bizarre institution in Philadelphia. The Mütter Museum has housed medical oddities and arcana for 160 years. Yet a handful of woke elites are taking issue with its past and jeopardizing its…

Op-Ed

Prescription for Failure

  • May 19, 2023

The research establishment studying racial disparities in health care has a big problem. It has made a concerted effort to ignore any literature that contradicts the narrative that racial animus underlies the health-care disparities between white and black patients. As in any field, the more evidence you can cite in favor of your theory, the more acceptance your theory will gain. In medical literature, acceptance of ideas is achieved when other researchers cite the supporting studies for those concepts. In fact, “impact” in the medical literature is judged by frequency of citations. A most favored hypothesis these days holds that black patients need access to black physicians to receive optimal medical care. This concept is a major motivating force behind the search for greater numbers of blacks to enter the health-care workforce. Unfortunately, the research cited to support it is often disingenuous or, at worst, dishonest.

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.