The treatment of cardiovascular diseases has advanced at an extraordinary pace over the past half-century resulting in an age-adjusted 60 percent reduction in heart disease death rates. This dramatic decline is directly attributable to primary and secondary preventive therapies such as statins and small interfering messenger RNAs along with disruptive technologic advances in procedural techniques.
Read the full op-ed at KevinMD.com.
“Racially discriminatory scholarships are unlawful and morally wrong, to say nothing of the negative impact they have on public confidence in our medical system,” Dr. Kurt Miceli, the chief medical officer of Do No Harm, said in a statement accompanying the complaint. “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. The AMA’s obsession with identity politics is no secret, and it should be held accountable for allowing race to dictate applicants’ eligibility for valuable and lucrative learning opportunities. If the AMA Foundation wants to retain its federal tax advantage, it must open its scholarships to applicants of all races.”
Read the full story at The Washington Examiner.
The IRS should investigate and potentially revoke the tax-exempt status of the American Medical Association’s philanthropic arm, according to a new complaint filed Tuesday.
“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,” Dr. Kurt Miceli, a psychiatrist and chief medical officer at Do No Harm, told The Daily Signal.
Read the full story at The Daily Signal.
It’s no secret that healthcare is a hotbed of anti-American ideology. Medical educators and providers have thoroughly embraced DEI, with all its demands for indoctrination and discrimination. But it also seems increasingly clear that employers across the medical establishment are favoring foreigners over Americans, too — potentially in direct violation of federal law.
On Monday, our organization filed a civil rights complaint with the Trump administration, asking it to investigate this situation and remedy any illegal discrimination against Americans.
Read the full op-ed in The Washington Examiner.
Three internal medicine residency programs are being accused of favoring foreign-trained doctors over American-trained doctors, with more than 90% of the most recent cohort of residents across the three programs coming from overseas, according to a civil rights complaint.
Medical watchdog Do No Harm filed a complaint Tuesday with the Department of Health and Human Services against healthcare providers Corewell Health, Texas Tech University and HCA Healthcare, raising concerns over the demographics of their internal medicine residency programs.
Read the full story in Fox News.
A year ago, President Trump signed one of his most important executive orders. He called out the decline of higher education, where merit and excellence have given way to indoctrination in “diversity, equity, and inclusion.” He then targeted the accreditors who have actively forced this decline in learning on colleges and universities. The president’s ultimate goal was to refocus higher education on actual education that strengthens our country.
Some accreditors that oversee health-focused colleges quickly responded by dropping their requirements on DEI. But a year later, others continue to prioritize indoctrination over education. For the sake of patients, President Trump needs to break their stranglehold on training health professionals.
Read the full op-ed in RealClearPolitics.
In the year since, there has been no sign that the pressure is letting up. In February, the CEO of Do No Harm, a group that advocates against diversity initiatives in medicine, wrote an opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal calling DEI “a threat to Americans’ health,” specifically calling out the language in the structural competency standard. In the days after LCME published the 2027-2028 standards, Kurt Miceli, chief medical officer at Do No Harm, wrote in a statement that “this marks a major victory and step forward in the ongoing battle over the future of medical education in America.”
Read the full article at STAT News.
Kurt Miceli, the chief medical officer at Do No Harm, says the APA wants to “have it both ways.”
“The American Psychological Association continues its attempt at having it both ways,” Miceli told The Daily Wire. “In its 2024 Policy Statement, the APA explicitly endorses ‘medical gender‑affirming care,’ even urging insurers to cover these interventions for minors.”
Read the full article at The Daily Wire.
Some of the worst excesses of racial identity politics have been in U.S. medical schools, but maybe that is starting to change. The Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME), which accredits M.D.-granting institutions, has quietly removed diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) protocols from its official guidance.
Under the old guidance on curricular standards, schools were advised to mind their “cultural competence and healthcare disparities.” The section instructed medical school faculty to make sure doctors-in-training “learn to recognize and appropriately address biases in themselves, in others and in the healthcare delivery process.”
Read the full op-ed by The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board.
It was an honor to join Genspect’s Detrans Awareness Day on March 12. I was truly humbled by the opportunity to meet so many brave individuals who were willing to share their stories with honesty and courage. To those individuals: your willingness to speak openly—often at personal cost—continues to shape the national conversation in ways that matter. I remain deeply grateful for the kindness you extended to me and for the work you are doing to ensure that no one walks this path alone.
Read the full article at Genspect’s “Inspecting Gender” publication.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention heard from medical advocacy group Do No Harm on Tuesday on adding new medical codes for patient histories of gender transition or detransition.
Do No Harm has advocated for removing diversity, equity and inclusion policies from medical school admissions and education and against gender-transition hormones or surgeries for minors. The group has proposed multiple codes classifying aspects of the gender transition and detransition process and in September, proposed the first code strictly for gender detransition, which was accepted by the CDC. The CDC plans to implement the code on Oct. 1.
Read the full story in The Center Square.
Editor’s note: This comment is in response to a study published in JAMA Network Open titled “Meaningful Interactional Diversity, Professional Development, and Service Intent in White Medical Students.”
This study purports to evaluate the educational benefits of “meaningful interactional diversity” for white medical students, yet its design and analytic choices offer no such evidence. Despite claiming to assess how a diverse student body shapes development and competence, it relies entirely on self-reported attitudes, creating a feedback loop that reflects agreeableness and social desirability more than any educational effect. Students who endorse one positive sounding item simply tend to endorse the rest.
Read the full comment at JAMA Network Open.
The Kaiser Permanente health care system is violating civil rights laws by discriminating against prospective patients based on race through its Center for Black Health and Wellness, according to a new civil rights complaint from a medical watchdog group.
The complaint, filed by Do No Harm to the Office for Civil Rights division of Health and Human Services, claims that the branding around Kaiser’s primary health care center for black patients located in Portland, Oregon creates the perception that care is reserved exclusively for black people, even if patients of all races are technically welcome.
Read the full story in National Review.
A Michigan law firm, which previously blasted a lawsuit over its diversity scholarships as “completely frivolous,” has agreed to remove race-based language from its award criteria and end a lawsuit filed last November.
According to a joint announcement on Monday, the firm Buckfire & Buckfire, P.C. reached an agreement with Do No Harm and the American Alliance for Equal Rights to amicably resolve the case. The parties filed a joint stipulation of dismissal on Feb. 27 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.
Read the full story at The Washington Examiner.
Who says Democrats have learned their lesson about “gender-affirming” treatments for kids?
After the 2024 election, the party was reeling politically from its blind support of subjecting teenagers—even preteens—to a destructive cocktail of hormones and surgeries. But in Oregon, Democrats refuse to come to their senses. They’re considering a bill that would end transparency about gender treatments provided in the state.
Read the full op-ed at City Journal.
Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, Chairman of Do No Harm, also praised the legislation, saying, “While this Administration has made tremendous progress to stamp out the scandal of sex change interventions on minors, legislation is needed to permanently codify protections for vulnerable American adolescents. The Chloe Cole Act is designed to permanently end chemical and surgical damage to minors, which has proliferated to an alarming degree by those who peddle misinformation and practice pseudoscience. The evidence does not support these types of interventions that are harmful and often do irreversible damage. Do No Harm applauds the elected officials who are fighting to end the child sex-change industry.”
Read the full article at Townhall.com.
Editor’s Note: This comment originally appeared in response to an article published in JAMA Network Open titled “Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Programs in Health Care Institutions.”
While the article “Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Programs in Health Care Institutions” evaluates DEI programs, it does not evaluate whether these programs improve patient care. Instead, it treats DEI as an axiomatic requirement for addressing disparities and fostering trust, and measures success by institutional compliance with prescribed administrative actions. This shifts the focus from clinical benefit to organizational behavior, leaving the study unable to determine whether DEI initiatives help patients.
Read the full comment and article at JAMA Network Open.