National Paramedic Association Hit With Lawsuit Over Scholarship Discriminating Against White Students

The National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians (NAEMT) was hit with a lawsuit from Do No Harm, an organization that opposes the politicization of medicine, over a scholarship program that discriminates against white people.

The suit from Do No Harm, filed this week, alleges that the association violated federal law by barring white applicants from a “diversity scholarship” set up to award $1,250 to four students studying to become emergency medical technicians. The scholarship has been removed from the organization’s website following the lawsuit’s filing.

“The National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians is given the important responsibility of training America’s first responders,” said Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, Chairman of Do No Harm.”Like all aspects of healthcare, training the best and brightest to provide the best care for patients should be the primary concern of all medical organizations, not the skin color of an EMT.”

Read more in the Daily Wire.

Emergency medic association sued for ‘racial discrimination’

Medical advocacy group Do No Harm filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians for “engaging in racial discrimination.”

The lawsuit challenges the group’s “diversity scholarship,” which the group says will only “be awarded to students of color,” according to the NAEMT website.

“The National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians is given the important responsibility of training America’s first responders,” DNH Chairman Stanley Goldfarb said in a press release. “Like all aspects of healthcare, training the best and brightest to provide the best care for patients should be the primary concern of all medical organizations, not the skin color of an EMT. First responders and all medical professionals should be given opportunities, training, and scholarships on the basis of merit.”

The lawsuit points out that white applicants would be excluded from consideration for a scholarship, which allocates $1,250 for educational materials.

Read more on the Washington Examiner.

The New Segregation on Campus

The University of California Los Angeles School of Medicine requires that first year students take a class called “Structural Racism and Health Equity” as part of the standard curriculum. In one exercise for the course, students divide by racial group and retreat to different areas to discuss antiracist prompts.

This is known as racial caucusing, a teaching device that UCLA describes as an “anti-racist pedagogical tool” to “provide a reflective space for us to explore how our positionality—particularly our racial identities as perceived within clinical spaces—influence our interaction with patients, colleagues and other staff.”

It’s also illegal. According to Do No Harm, a group that describes its mission as “eliminating racial discrimination in healthcare,” the practice violates the 1964 Civil Rights Act. In a letter to the San Francisco Office for Civil Rights, Do No Harm wrote this week that the school’s racial caucusing groups “illegally segregate and separate its first year medical students based on their race, color and/or national origin” in violation of Title VI.

Read more on the Wall Street Journal.

Doctors protest proposed DEI emphasis in Canadian medical school training

A draft report from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons in Canada that recommends medical schools focus more on “anti-racism” and “oppression” is causing an uproar among many in the medical community.

The proposed alterations to CanMEDS, the framework that shapes medical education in Canada, came from an interim report by the college’s Anti-Racism Expert Working Group, published in late November on X. CanMEDs standards are set to be updated in 2025.

The report calls for “de-centering medical expertise” in favor of topics such as “decolonization,” “social justice,” and “inclusive compassion.”

Read more in The College Fix.

Texas A&M looks to clamp down on public records requests after DEI inquiry

EXCLUSIVE — Faculty at Texas A&M University are looking to restrict the school’s responsiveness to public records requests after an inquiry into its diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, claiming the requests are threatening and amount to harassment.

The move comes after the Washington Examiner reported on the TAMU nursing school’s support for DEI ahead of a Jan. 1 deadline to comply with a recently passed state law that blocked DEI initiatives at public institutions of higher education.

Read more on the Washington Examiner.

Why Did Mike DeWine Rush to Ban Transgender Surgeries for Minors 1 Week After Vetoing Similar Bill? This Doctor Thinks He Knows

On Friday, Ohio’s Republican governor, Mike DeWine, issued an “emergency” executive order to ban sex-reassignment surgeries for minors just one week after he vetoed a bill that would have banned those same surgeries and addressed related issues.

The General Assembly is expected to begin the process of overriding his veto Wednesday.

Why did DeWine sign the order so quickly after vetoing the bill?

The governor did admit in his veto message that he agreed with outlawing sex-reassignment surgeries for minors, as the bill would, but he said he disagreed with other provisions, and he insisted that executive orders and regulations would be more likely to survive legal challenges. He directed his administration to draft regulations.

Read more on The Daily Signal.

Psychoanalysis’s Racial Hysteria

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“Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise,” Sigmund Freud once said. Psychoanalysis, the field that he founded, is taking the opposite approach.

The American Psychoanalytic Association (APsA) is consumed with the idea that the profession suffers from “systemic racism,” requiring a revolution in training and practice. Unlike honesty, which heals the mind, this falsehood will destroy psychoanalysis from within and profoundly harm patients’ mental health. 

Read more on the City Journal.

Watchdog Sues Louisiana Over Racial Quota on Medical Board

A medical watchdog group is suing Louisiana in federal court over a racial quota for the state’s board of medical examiners, which the group argues violates the U.S. Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection.

Do No Harm is suing over a racial mandate that requires the state’s governor to exclude non-minority candidates for a certain number of positions on the Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners.

Read more on The Epoch Times.

University Of Michigan’s Spending On ‘Diversity’ Grew 66% In Just One Year

The University of Michigan’s (UM) spending on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) increased about 66% from the 2022-2023 school year, according to an analysis by Mark Perry, a senior fellow at Do No Harm.

The school’s DEI payroll for the 2022-2023 school year came in at $18 million, but increased to over $30 million for the 2023-2024 academic year, according to Perry’s analysis. UM’s DEI department had 132 full-time diversity employees in the 2022-2023 school year and now has over 300.

More than 500 positions at UM advance DEI in some fashion at the university, including those who work full-time or part-time on DEI, unfilled positions, DEI Unit Leads and faculty that work on DEI Committees, Perry told the DCNF.

“UM is doubling down on diversity,” Perry said.

Read more on the Daily Caller.

‘Gender-Affirming Care’ Is Increasingly Being Recognized as Unscientific

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American medical associations are doubling down on their support of so-called gender-affirming care for children even as lawsuits mount and European countries reverse course. America’s public reckoning with the harms inflicted on kids by pediatric gender medicine ticks closer by the day, and indeed several studies published in recent weeks bring the tragic and profound risks into sharper focus.

A study headed by Finnish researcher Riittakerttu Kaltiala examines the psychiatric needs of gender-dysphoric individuals in Finland. The researchers observe that the dysphoric population was substantially more likely than age-matched peers to have received specialist-level psychiatric contact before their first visit to a gender clinic. Worryingly, mental-health needs intensify after they begin the process of medical transition. Whereas 15 percent of patients who underwent gender-reassignment interventions had received psychiatric treatment before visiting a gender clinic, 53 percent had psychiatric contact after their first visit.

“Experts” profess certainty that “gender-affirming care” alleviates mental-health distress. They arrive at this conclusion through deeply flawed studies that rely on patient self-reports of mental health. But other clinical indicators suggest that medical transition in fact exacerbates mental-health distress. A 2021 study found that prescriptions for psychotropic medications increased after kids initiated medical transition. A 2011 study from Sweden meanwhile found that those who underwent sex-reassignment surgery had an appreciably lower life expectancy than the general population, in part due to an increased incidence of suicide.

Read more on National Review.

Suit challenges required minority appointments to Louisiana medical licensing board

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A law requiring that some members appointed to the board that licenses and regulates physicians in Louisiana be from minority groups is being challenged in federal court as an unconstitutional racial mandate.

The lawsuit filed Thursday by the conservative group “Do No Harm” seeks a declaration that the law requiring minority appointees to the State Board of Medical Examiners is unconstitutional, and an order forbidding the governor from complying with it.

Read more on AP News.

Ohio State health sciences program sparks controversy with mandatory ‘privilege’ assignments

A health sciences course at The Ohio State University asks students to address their “privileges” if they are white, heterosexual, or able-bodied.

The course, which has been offered since 2009, is entitled “Individual Differences in Patient/Client Populations” and is administered as a part of Ohio State’s School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, according to the Daily Mail.

Fox News reported that the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences receives funds through the University’s Affordable Learning Exchange grant, which “awards grants to instructors who want to transform their courses using open and affordable materials.”

Information about the class was obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request performed by Do No Harm, which according to its website is a coalition of “healthcare professionals, medical students, patients, and policymakers” that are dedicated to “protect[ing] healthcare from a radical, divisive, and discriminatory ideology.”

Read more on Campus Reform.

Ohio’s Top Children’s Hospital Coaches Doctors To Circumvent Parents Wary Of Trans Treatments, Training Videos Show

An Ohio hospital that actively lobbied Republican Gov. Mike DeWine to veto a ban on transgender procedures for minors has grossly misrepresented its approach to parental involvement in decisions, according to internal training videos obtained by The Daily Wire. 

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, which both hosted DeWine onsite ahead of his veto of the ban on transgender procedures and testified against it in the legislature, said publicly in its opposition campaign that parental involvement is a priority. Steve Davis, the hospital’s president and CEO, testified that the bill “would hinder doctors and parents from collaboratively deciding the best treatment for their children.” He also stated that parental consent is always required.

Read more on the Daily Wire.

Dr. Marilyn Singleton blasts MSNBC guest for blaming racism for health issues

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California anesthesiologist and ‘Do No Harm’ senior fellow Dr. Marilyn Singleton joins ‘Fox & Friends’ to follow up on her criticism against MSNBC guest Dr. Uché Blackstock’s claim that racism is behind health issues for minority communities.

Physician Group Settles Suit Over Program for Black Doctors

Do No Harm, a healthcare professionals advocacy group, says it agreed to settle the challenge it brought against a physician-owned healthcare group’s leadership program for Black doctors.

The advocacy group argued Vituity’s Bridge to Brilliance program, meant to bridge opportunity gaps for historically marginalized groups, violated the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and the Affordable Care Act. Do No Harm says it is made of a group of diverse healthcare professionals who want to protect the field from anti-racism ideologies.

Vituity said that it had already made the decision to end its incentive program for Black physicians in the parties’ joint stipulation of dismissal filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of Florida on Jan. 2. Judge T. Kent Wetherell II dismissed the suit on Wednesday.

“Medical professionals should be hired on merit alone and medical organizations should abandon the divisive identity politics being used as the basis to implement the debunked theory of racial concordance,” Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, the board chair of Do No Harm, said in a press release Wednesday. “Patients want and deserve the best doctors and the best medical care regardless of skin color or the racial makeup of their physician.”

Read more on Bloomberg Law.

Doctors Call for Withdrawal of Psychiatry Textbook Promoting ‘Gender-Affirming’ Care

Nearly 170 health professionals have signed an open letter to the American Psychiatric Association (APA) condemning its new “gender-affirming” care textbook as “unacceptable, unethical and unsafe.”

Their open letter to the organization appears on the website of the Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism, a free speech and civil liberties watchdog group. The signatories demand that the APA “explain why it glaringly ignored many scientific developments in gender-related care and to consider its responsibility to promote and protect patients’ safety, mental and physical health.”

The letter calls for the APA to suspend publication of the textbook, “Gender-Affirming Psychiatric Care,” released on Nov. 8. The textbook is intended to be used as a teaching tool for doctors in training.

Read more on The Epoch Times.

Gov. Mike DeWine Vetoes Bill Protecting Kids From ‘Gender-Affirming Care’

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine vetoed a bill to protect minors from experimental transgender medical interventions that are euphemistically referred to as “gender-affirming care.”

DeWine, a Republican, framed his veto of House Bill 68 on Friday as an effort to bring consensus on a divisive issue and to avoid having the government decide what medical decisions are best for children.

“Were House Bill 68 to become law, Ohio would be saying that the state, that the government, knows better what is best for a child than the two people who love that child the most, the parents,” DeWine said.

Read more on the Daily Caller.

Penn affiliates want merit and ‘intellectual diversity’ to guide university

The University of Pennsylvania should reorient itself to support “intellectual diversity” and merit, according to some students, faculty, and alumni.

“A Vision for a New Future of the University of Pennsylvania,” comes after Penn’s former president, Liz Magill, resigned earlier this month following remarks she made regarding antisemitism on campus in a hearing with federal lawmakers.

The constitution calls for a return to the values of the university’s founder, Benjamin Franklin. The petition supporting the new constitution has garnered the signatures of over 200 professors, alumni, and other Penn community members.

Read more on The College Fix.