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A Response To JAMA’s Defense of Racial Discrimination

  • January 12, 2023

The Journal of the American Medical Association recently published an outright defense of racially discriminatory admissions practices at medical schools, under the guise of “affirmative action.” Our chairman, Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, wrote the following response to this disturbing article. My former colleagues at the University of…

Commentary

PBS Promotes Faulty Racial Politics Over Sound Medical Judgment

  • December 23, 2022

One December 17, PBS News Weekend ran a spot titled “How racial biases in medical algorithms lead to inequities in care.” In an interview with Dr. Jayne Morgan, president-elect of the Georgia-based biotech company Southeast Life Sciences, she was asked about “racial biases” in medical diagnostic…

Report

Maternal Mortality in the U.S. – Media Narratives and Reality

  • December 20, 2022

Black women’s mortality rates are reported to be several-fold higher than white women and the overall U.S. rate is said to be substantially higher than other developed nations. A substantial part of the reported U.S. rate may result from a reporting system that has overestimated maternal deaths and one whose…

Podcast

S1E4: The Hippocratic Oath

  • December 16, 2022

Dr. Stanley Goldfarb explains the history of the Hippocratic Oath, its focus on treating patients – no matter who they are – the same, and how it is the foundation of Do No Harm’s work. They examine the question – would Hippocrates feel that his work had failed when looking…

Podcast

S1E3: Medical Students and Woke Medicine

  • December 2, 2022

In our third episode, Benita Cotton-Orr and Dr. Stanley Goldfarb discuss how we can help medical students recognize, understand, and push back against the woke pedagogy that has infiltrated our medical schools.

Op-Ed

A Woke Panic on Maternal Mortality

  • November 18, 2022

Is there an epidemic of black mothers dying in the delivery room? So it would seem, given the drumbeat of academic studies and media stories over the past few years, including from Oprah Winfrey and the Biden administration. Yet it turns out that these alarming…

Op-Ed

Maternal Mortality in the U.S.-Media Narratives and Reality

  • November 17, 2022

Black women’s mortality rates are reported to be several fold higher than white women and the overall U.S. rate is said to be substantially higher than other developed nations. A substantial part of the reported U.S. rate may result from a reporting system that has overestimated maternal deaths and one…

Podcast

S1E2: Politics in Medicine

  • November 11, 2022

In our second episode, Benita Cotton-Orr and Dr. Stanley Goldfarb discuss when—and how—politics became such a big part of medicine.

Testimony and Comments

Do No Harm Submits Comments on the Treatment of Gender Dysphoria

  • October 28, 2022

The Florida Boards of Medicine and Osteopathic Medicine hosted a public meeting to discuss standards for the treatment of gender dysphoria.Do No Harm submitted the following comment: Do No Harm Comments in Florida…

Podcast

S1E1: Medical Schools as Institutions

  • October 28, 2022

In this inaugural episode, Dr. Stanley Goldfarb joins Benita Cotton-Orr to share his personal journey from practitioner to educator. Stan shares how he became aware – tragically – of the transformation of American medical education into a focus on social justice, “anti-racism,” and “diversity” at the expense of learning the…

Op-Ed

NYU’s firing of Professor Maitland Jones Jr. should frighten every American

  • New York University
  • October 6, 2022

New York University fired Maitland Jones Jr. because his organic chemistry course was “too hard.” The man wrote the textbook on the subject, now in its fifth edition, and had been a star teacher at Princeton. He went out of his way to tape his lectures, at his own cost, to…

Commentary

Open Letter to Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo of JAMA

  • September 19, 2022

Dear Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, Congratulations on your appointment as editor-in-chief of the Journal of the American Medical Association!  You now hold one of the most prestigious positions in the elite world of health publications. Medical researchers, professionals, and policymakers now look to you for leadership, and it is incumbent on you…

Op-Ed

Top med school putting wokeism ahead of giving America good doctors

  • September 2, 2022

Elite medical schools are deliberately recruiting woke activists, jeopardizing their mission of training physicians. That’s what our organization found in a review of the application process for America’s top 50 medical schools. Nearly three-quarters of these institutions — and 80% of the top 10 — ask applicants about…

Testimony and Comments

Do No Harm Comment on Medicare Advantage

  • August 31, 2022

Do No Harm submitted this request for comment by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Do No Harm, a national association of medical professionals united in protecting medicine from harmful and divisive political ideologies, shares CMS’ goal to advance “the attainment of the highest level of health…

Op-Ed

Corruption of healthcare comes to Colorado Springs

  • August 1, 2022

The same divisive ideology that’s corrupting K-12 schools and threatening funding for public safety is rapidly taking over healthcare. It goes by many names: “Critical Race Theory,” “anti-racism,” “diversity, equity, and inclusion,” and more. But whatever you call it, it destroys patient trust in healthcare and leads to racial discrimination…

Op-Ed

We must fight back against health care’s terrifying conquest by the radically woke

  • July 29, 2022

All Americans should be terrified of what’s about to happen in health care. The same radical woke activists who’ve corrupted K-12 education and public safety are about to force every medical student to learn and practice divisive, discriminatory and downright dangerous things. What happens in medical school will ultimately corrupt all…