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How We’ve Taken the Bias Out of ‘Implicit Bias Training’
Is there any escape from woke indoctrination? I’ve heard versions of this question from countless doctors, nurses and other medical professionals. Healthcare has been captured by activists pushing divisive and…

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‘Pedagogical Malpractice’: Inside UCLA Medical School’s Mandatory ‘Health Equity’ Class
Students in their first year of medical school typically learn what a healthy body looks like and how to keep it that way. At the University of California, Los Angeles,…

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Medicine shuns gender detransitioners like me — but we deserve to be heard and helped
When I was 12, I tried to transition my gender. Everyone supported me. Therapists told me I was doing the right thing. Doctors put me on puberty blockers and then…

Op-Ed
How Neuropsychology Lost Its Mind
Is the pilot on your airplane fit to fly? Is your surgeon too old to operate on your heart? Does your daughter have brain damage? Such are the serious questions…

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Woke medicine KILLS: 10 examples of how DEI is creating the next public health crisis
The left’s woke agenda is chock-full of phony public health crises – racism, climate change, inaccessible “gender-affirming care.” But there’s a real public health crisis on the horizon, and it goes by…

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Disturbing left-wing propaganda infects our medical schools
If there is one area of life you would hope might be off limits to the left-wing insanity ripping through the nation like wildfire, surely it would be the field…

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Breast cancer surgeons must submit DEI statement for UC Davis job
University of California Davis School of Medicine
Applicants for a job as a surgical oncologist must submit a “Statement of Contributions to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion,” to be considered at the University of California Davis. “Contributions to…

Op-Ed
Stuck in Wokeness’s Waiting Room
The edifice of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), a reasonable-sounding concept that serves as a dog whistle for critical race theory and is premised on the claim that our country is…

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We were pushed to transition as teens — now we’re ‘vindicated’ by study showing kids grow out of it
A study which finds gender-confused youth mostly grow out of it and a ban on puberty blockers in England are both being hailed as “vindication” by “detransitioners” — people who…

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Kansas Governor Vetoes Bill Protecting Children From Transgender Surgeries
The governor of Kansas vetoed a bill seeking to protect minors from gender transition surgeries, insisting that it “tramples parental rights.” On Friday, Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly…

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Philly med school will pursue ‘diverse workforce’ through scholarships, special programs
A Philadelphia medical school says it wants to create a “diverse workforce” by attracting students through special scholarships, mentoring, and other programs. But in comments to The College Fix, a medical doctor…

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Critics warn schools are skirting Texas DEI ban after university shuffles DEI officials to other departments
Texas A&M University responded to a state law banning diversity, equity and inclusion on college campuses by giving the department head a raise before reassigning her and other employees to…

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UCLA med school cancels lecturing blaming ‘whiteness’ for opioid crisis
The University of California at Los Angeles Medical School recently canceled a scheduled lecture making the case that the American opioid crisis of the past two decades should be blamed…

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Discrimination and Identity Politics Have No Place in Medical Education
In 2019, Stanley Goldfarb, the former associate dean of the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, wrote an article lamenting the change in his institution’s mission from training future …

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Boston hospital to scale back on child abuse and neglect reports that can perpetuate ‘structural racism’
A Boston, Massachusetts, hospital announced Tuesday that after finding Black mothers were more likely to be reported for child abuse and neglect if a toxicology report came back positive, it would…

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De-transitioner warns shareholders that Disney will pay a price for ‘stealing the voices of thousands of little Ariels’
victim of so-called "gender-affirming care" informed Disney shareholders Wednesday that the company may soon face lawsuits over its support of employees' genital mutilations. Chloe Cole, a woman left permanently scarred…

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Puberty blockers may NOT be reversible and could raise children’s risk of fertility problems and even cancer, Mayo Clinic study suggests
Mayo Clinic experts say puberty blockers can lead to withering testicles, fertility problems and even cancer among the trans kids who take them, in the latest study to raise alarm about transgender medicine.

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Minority Contracting Comes to Medicine
When public hospitals purchase medical equipment or rely on outside doctors, they typically consider the price and quality of each vendor. In Tarrant County, Texas, they consider something else, too:…