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Healthcare org states Black health center is for all races after civil rights complaint

After medical watchdog Do No Harm filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services over what it called Kaiser Permanente’s racially discriminatory “Center for Black Health and Wellness,” the healthcare organization updated the center with a disclaimer that all races are welcome. Do No Harm says it’s not enough.

Do No Harm’s Chief Medical Officer Dr. Kurt Miceli told The Center Square that “Kaiser’s disclaimer that members of any race or ethnicity may use their ‘Center for Black Health and Wellness’ does not solve the underlying racial discrimination identified in our complaint.”

Read more at The Center Square.

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Texas Tech residency program favors foreign-trained doctors, medical group says

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A recent report by medical advocacy group Do No Harm revealed that Texas Tech University’s internal medicine residency program is staffed almost entirely by residents who attended medical school outside the U.S., raising concerns about discrimination.

The group’s findings show that 95 percent of Texas Tech’s residents are from Pakistan, Bangladesh, Egypt, Iraq, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, and Syria, among other countries. The program’s directors completed their medical education in Iraq, according to the report.

Following this discovery, Do No Harm filed a federal civil rights complaint against the school.

Read more at The College Fix.

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Watchdog says healthcare providers may be misrepresenting child gender treatments as routine care

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Healthcare providers may be able to misrepresent transgender treatments for minors as routine care that is unrelated to gender-affirming treatments, a new report from medical watchdog Do No Harm revealed.

Chief medical officer at Do No Harm Dr. Kurt Miceli told The Center Square: “We suspect there are healthcare providers doing exactly what our report exposes: skirting coding rules to get paid for child sex changes.”

“Our report details how providers could potentially bypass coding guidelines and identifies eight likely diagnostic codes they would use,” Miceli said.

Read more at The Center Square.

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Watchdog Paper Warns against Insurance Fraud for Child Gender Transition Procedures

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A paper published last month by medical watchdog group Do No Harm warns state officials and health insurance providers that “Healthcare Providers May Skirt Coding Rules to Get Paid for Child Sex Changes,” as the title puts it. The document identifies potential ways that medical providers can falsify insurance codes to ensure payment for gender transition procedures to evade state legislation, and it also identifies organizations advising providers to do just that.

Read more at The Washington Stand.

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Doctors Can Fraudulently Code ‘Trans’ Child Genital Mutilation To Bypass Bans: Report

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Doctors are able to use fraudulent or misleading medical codes in order to hide “transgender” procedures from insurance companies and regulators, allowing them to potentially bypass state bans on genital mutilation and chemical castration, according to a new report.

The report from medical watchdog group Do No Harm shows how doctors are able to use medical codes claiming things like generic endocrine care as stand-ins for so-called “gender-affirming” interventions for children — both allowing the children to receive the irreversible drugs and procedures and ensuring doctors get paid for doing so. It also details how pro-mutilation groups like the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) allegedly encourage doctors to do so.

Read the full article at The Federalist.

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‘Too Much Science in the Curriculum’

Minority representation in med schools—which had dipped in California and even ebbed nationally after California’s landmark Prop 209 (banning affirmative action)—roared back to peak-AA levels and beyond. “Schools decided it was more important to have a racially diverse corps caring for patients than to identify the most capable individuals,” recalls Stanley Goldfarb, MD, former associate dean with the prestigious Perelman School of Medicine at Penn. “Achieving this involved a growing movement to eliminate traditional academic qualifications for entry.” In 2022, convinced that antiracism was becoming anti-medicine at Penn and pretty much everywhere else, Goldfarb established a nonprofit organisation called Do No Harm, the charter mission of which was “keeping identity politics out of medical education, research, and clinical practice.” Today, it claims 50,000 members in fourteen countries.

Read the full article in Quillette.

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Nursing Schools Can Finally Cure the DEI Disease

Most Americans don’t realize this, but their health has been at risk for years. Divisive and discriminatory ideology has crept into health education, under the guise of so-called “diversity, equity, and inclusion.” This politicized worldview has become foundational not only at medical schools, but also at the nursing schools that train my profession. The sudden turn toward indoctrination means that future nurses are spending less time actually studying the essentials of nursing and patient care.

The good news is that this disease is finally being contained and treated.

Read the full op-ed at RealClearPolitics.

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DAILY WIRE: Government Forcing Ideology Into Medicine Vs. Doctors’ Right To Think And Speak Freely

Dr. Azadeh Khatibi and the medical watchdog organization Do No Harm filed a petition on Tuesday asking the Supreme Court to take up a case challenging continuing medical education requirements that mandate instructors teach doctors about “implicit bias,” which is the claim that a person can unconsciously discriminate against another. Khatibi argues that the requirements, which were signed into law by California Gov. Gavin Newsom, force medical professionals to push politically charged ideas.

“By mandating ideologically charged racial theories be taught in continuing medical education courses, California infringes on physicians’ free speech rights,” Do No Harm Chair Stanley Goldfarb told The Daily Wire. “We are asking the Supreme Court to intervene to protect these critical rights in the field of medicine. Doctors do not need lawmakers telling them what to think when providing medical advice to patients.”

Read the full story at The Daily Wire.

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DAILY SIGNAL: AMA Race-Based Scholarships Disappear From Website After Do No Harm IRS Complaint

The American Medical Association Foundation website no longer includes listings for race-based scholarships after a medical watchdog suggested the foundation should lose its tax-exempt status for racial discrimination.

Do No Harm, a watchdog group of doctors, nurses, and other medical professionals, aims to expose racial discrimination, transgender ideology, and other divisive practices in medicine. Do No Harm sent a letter to the IRS earlier this month, noting that multiple AMA Foundation scholarships explicitly state that only students of certain races qualify.

Read the full story at The Daily Signal.

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Federally funded hospital networks face HHS complaint over race-based scholarships

Two Midwestern hospital systems are facing civil rights complaints alleging they unlawfully restrict scholarship opportunities based on race, escalating a broader push against diversity-focused programs in medical institutions by the Trump administration.

The advocacy group Do No Harm filed complaints Tuesday with the Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights against Beacon Health System and Valley Health System, urging federal investigators to examine whether the programs at two major nonprofit hospital networks violate long-standing anti-discrimination laws.

Read the full story in The Washington Examiner.

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Dr. Kurt Miceli Joins Fox & Friends First to Discuss Call for FTC Probe into American Psychological Association

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Today, Do No Harm Chief Medical Officer Dr. Kurt Miceli joined Fox & Friends First to discuss Do No Harm’s recent letter urging the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate the American Psychological Association (APA) for its misleading statements on child sex changes.

The letter identifies inconsistencies between the APA’s comments to federal regulators regarding sex-rejecting procedures for minors and its policy statement on that issue, and asks the FTC to investigate whether the APA is engaged in deceptive practices.

“This is extraordinarily concerning. We’re talking about kids who are confused about their gender,” said Dr. Miceli. “These are young children and adolescents who are vulnerable; some of the most vulnerable members of society. And they’re confused about their gender, and they’re going to psychologists and medical providers who are putting them on this pathway towards puberty blockers and hormones and surgeries.”

Watch the full clip at Fox News.

 

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Is Denying ‘Gender-Affirming Care’ Child Abuse? Your Kid’s Doctor Might Think So

Kurt Miceli, MD, Chief Medical Officer at Do No Harm, says pediatricians should not be pushing vulnerable kids towards medical transition.

“Loving parents should not be treated as welfare risks requiring legal intervention; instead, they should be included as partners in supporting their child’s well‑being, helping their son or daughter navigate distress, and fulfilling their responsibility to protect their child from irreversible harm,” Miceli told The Daily Wire.

Read the full story in the Daily Wire.

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Advocacy group calls for FTC probe into American Psychological Association for pushing sex changes in kids

A prominent medical advocacy group is urging the Federal Trade Commission to probe whether the American Psychological Association knowingly promoted transgender surgeries on minors while being aware of the pitfalls.

Do No Harm, a group aimed at “protecting healthcare from identity politics,” argued to FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson that the association’s 2024 policy statement in support of such operations on minors contradicts its statement to regulators last September.

Read the full story at The New York Post.

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CDC to Weigh Feedback on Transgender Medical Code Proposal

Detransitioning, a catch-all term for individuals who received some form of gender-affirming care before stopping or in some cases reversing these procedures, has become a focus for such groups.

“One of the things that we often hear is that we don’t really know what the rate of detransition is,” said Kurt Miceli, chief medical officer of Do No Harm. “I think one way to potentially get that data is to have a code that’s within the medical lexicon, and then real-world data could be harvested, so to speak, to understand what these rates are.”

Read the full article at Bloomberg Law.

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Higher Ed Is Hiding Racial Discrimination

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Racial discrimination is alive and well in higher education.

That’s what the Trump administration strongly – and rightly – suspects. In late March, the Department of Justice opened investigations into admissions policies at three major medical schools, including those at Stanford University, the University of California at San Diego, and Ohio State University. The administration wants their admissions data to see if the medical schools are still practicing the discriminatory DEI policies that the Supreme Court banned in 2023.

The president’s team is asking the right questions. And based on investigations we’ve done at Do No Harm, the answer is clear: Racial discrimination endures to this day.

Read the full op-ed in RealClearPolitics.

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Beyond Disparities: The Case for Restoring Merit as the Foundation of Medical Education

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Editor’s note: This article originally appeared as a comment to and investigation, “Disparities for Asian American Medical Students in Alpha Omega Alpha and Gold Humanism Honor Societies,” published in JAMA Network Open.

Beyond the disparities noted in this JAMA article lies a more fundamental need to re-center medical education on excellence and merit. The AΩA constitution explicitly commits the organization to “the belief that in the profession of medicine we will improve care for all by recognizing high educational achievement…” Yet the path toward that mission has grown increasingly blurred. In describing how members are selected, AΩA does not begin with merit; rather, it states its commitment to “advancing diversity and inclusion.” This marks a shift from a historical emphasis on academic rank to a modern selection process that permits schools/Chapters to weigh a broad mix of factors—many unrelated to academic performance. The result is a dilution of the very academic standards the organization claims to uphold.

Read the full comment here.

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DEI, Louis Vuitton, And Casino Chips: Inside A Billion-Dollar VA Scandal

Dr. Kurt Miceli, the chief medical officer of Do No Harm, told The Daily Wire that the case showed the danger of implementing DEI initiatives at the federal level.
“Diversity initiatives in federal contracting elevate race, gender, or other demographic traits over merit and proven capability when awarding taxpayer‑funded work,” he said. “The result: set-asides and preferences that explicitly discriminate based on identity rather than awarding projects through competitive bidding and qualifications.”
Read the full story at the Daily Wire.
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Complaint Filed with IRS Seeks to Strip AMA Foundation of Tax-Exempt Status Over “Racially Discriminatory” Scholarships

Do No Harm filed a formal complaint with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), urging an investigation into whether the American Medical Association (AMA) Foundation should lose its tax-exempt status. The watchdog organization is asking the federal government to take action, alleging that race-based scholarship programs violate federal law and undermine public trust.

“Racially discriminatory scholarships are unlawful and morally wrong, to say nothing of the negative impact they have on public confidence in our medical system,” said Dr. Kurt Miceli, Chief Medical Officer at Do No Harm. “Based on the evidence in our complaint, we believe the IRS should revoke the AMA Foundation’s tax-exempt status for operating a racially discriminatory program.”

Read the full story in the Iowa Standard.