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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.”

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

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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.

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

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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.”

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

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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.

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

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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.

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

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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.

Major medical association slammed for offering ‘segregated’ scholarships to students

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The largest association of physicians in the U.S. is limiting some of its scholarships to only students of certain racial groups, drawing criticism from a healthcare researcher.

The American Medical Association (AMA) is currently offering 14 scholarships under its “Physicians of Tomorrow” program. The program gives $10,000 in tuition assistance scholarships to medical students entering their final year of schooling and targets “a variety of focus areas, including serving those underrepresented in medicine.”

It’s DEI or Bust for the American College of Surgeons

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The organization has launched a diversity, equity, and inclusion tool kit to ‘help’ doctors, advocating principles that have no place in medicine.

America’s surgeons are not woke enough, according to the American College of Surgeons (ACS). Such is the message of the leadership to fellows of the ACS. In a previous column on this site, I described how the ACS doubled down on anti-racism and DEI at its annual Clinical Congress in Boston this October with courses in its educational program for surgeons. To underscore its ongoing commitment to anti-racism and DEI, the ACS just launched its DEI Toolkit and continues to promote this ideology as though its life depended on it.

To say this is puzzling is an understatement, especially given recent trends. Diversity, equity, and inclusion departments throughout the country are being shut down, DEI administrators are being handed their walking papers, and the ideologies of anti-racism and DEI are being increasingly recognized for their illiberal, divisive, and fraudulent nature. Take anti-racism. Even Ibram X. Kendi, who coined the term, is incapable of defining this in a coherent manner. When asked to define anti-racism, he offered: “Antiracism is a collection of antiracist policies leading to racial equity that are substantiated by antiracist ideas.” This is a classic circular argument that no critically thinking person would accept.

Surgeon says ‘toxic’ DEI in medicine has led to ‘erosion’ of quality care: ‘Dangerous to our patients’

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A surgeon blasted a top medical organization for doubling down on its antiracist initiatives at a time when many corporations and organizations are distancing themselves from these controversial principles.

“America’s surgeons are not woke enough, according to the American College of Surgeons (ACS),” Dr. Richard Bosshardt penned in his column for National Review this week.

The largest surgical organization in the country recently launched a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion toolkit for providers. In an announcement earlier this month, the ACS touted the materials would “provide a blueprint for implementing equitable practices” in medicine.

Dr. Stanley Goldfarb Discusses Anti-Semitism in U.S. Medical Schools

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Do No Harm chairman Stanley Goldfarb, M.D., recently joined John Solomon and Amanda Head on Just the News, No Noise on Real America’s Voice to discuss incidents of anti-Semitism on university campuses with medical schools and racial concordance.

Click the video to see the full interview.

The Biden Admin Is Investigating Elite Colleges For Antisemitism — But Don’t Expect Any Repercussions

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While Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are under investigation by the Biden administration following a rise in antisemitic incidents at the universities, it’s unlikely they’ll face any serious consequences, experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

Following several high-profile instances of antisemitism on campuses, the Department of Education’s (ED) Office of Civil Rights (OCR) opened investigations into Harvard, UPenn and MIT; the investigations followed a hearing in which the presidents of each university refused to say if calling for the genocide of Jews violated their universities’ codes of conduct. Though the Biden administration is looking into these private colleges, as well as many public universities, it’s doubtful the schools will face consequences such as a loss of federal funding, experts told the DCNF.

At Georgetown Med, the Doctors of Tomorrow Aren’t Hiding Their Support for Terrorism

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At Georgetown University Medical School, a flurry of social media posts from future medical professionals justifying Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre is raising a troubling question: Can doctors support terrorism?

An array of Georgetown Med students since the attack have taken to Instagram to praise the “Palestinian resistance” and argue that violence against innocent civilians is “inevitable” given Israel’s “apartheid” and “settler colonialism,” screenshots obtained by the Washington Free Beacon show. One student, Nicole Olakkengil, even urged her classmates who refuse to “stand … with the resistance” to “maybe try entering a different field,” as “medicine is inherently political.” In some cases, those students are already working in Washington, D.C.-area hospitals.

The students’ willingness to justify, defend, and even praise the worst attack against Jews since the Holocaust raises questions as to how those students will treat Jewish patients when they become doctors—and whether doctors can support terrorism while staying within the bounds of medical ethics.

Read more on the Washington Free Beacon.

OCPA Continues Defense of Ban on Child Sex-Change Measures

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OCPA joined with Do No Harm, a group of medical professionals, to defend SB 613 in an amici curiae brief filed in the case. The two groups jointly filed their latest brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit in support of affirmance of Heil’s denial of the preliminary injunction.

“No reliable scientific evidence justifies the use of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries to treat gender dysphoria in minors,” OCPA and Do No Harm’s latest brief states. “To the contrary, such treatments carry harmful lifelong consequences, including infertility, total loss of adult sexual function, and increased risk of several other serious medical conditions. Despite activists’ efforts to stifle dissent, even otherwise sympathetic audiences have begun to raise the alarm over the use of these treatments.”

Medical activists ‘cherry-pick’ research to justify racialized healthcare: Study

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The data justifying “racial concordance,” the idea that patients will receive better care from doctors of their own race, have been “cherry-picked” to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion in medicine, according to a new study.

The theory of “racial concordance” has become prominent among America’s leading medical schools and organizations, as well as within left-wing political leadership. The theory holds that doctors of certain races are “inherently biased toward members of other races,” the study stated.

Organizations like the American Medical Association, the Association of American Medical Colleges, which represents all accredited U.S. medical schools, and “Top Doctor” search engine Castle Connolly have all heavily pushed the ideology.

However, the supporting data for this idea exist in a relatively small number of studies, with “generally cherry-picked” evidence that is “decisively outweighed by the full body of scientific research,” causing the study’s authors to conclude that “medical research does not support racial concordance.”

Most ‘Transgender’ Kids Turn Out to Be Gay

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As a medical professional who happens to be gay, I’ll be celebrating Dec. 15, the 50th anniversary of the American Psychiatric Association’s decision to remove homosexuality from its list of mental illnesses. The longstanding designation was based on prejudice, not medical research, and the revision marked the beginning of the end for so-called conversion therapy, which sought to “cure” gays and lesbians of a nonexistent malady.

Princeton punished me for fighting to fix DEI and antisemitism on campus

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If the words “diversity, equity, and inclusion” mean anything, it’s that hatred is unacceptable no matter what form it takes.

Yet the past two months have made clear to me that institutional DEI tolerates — and thereby encourages — the particularly awful hatred of antisemitism.

What else could explain what’s happening at Princeton University?

Nothing prepared me for Oct. 7.

Nurses Earning Continuing Education Credits for Being More Woke

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You or a loved one is lying helpless in the Intensive Care Unit of your local hospital. You or they are unable to speak and have numerous IV lines inserted everywhere. Doctors, nurses, and other various healthcare professionals are in and out of the room, doing what they are trained to do, which is, you assume, to save lives. As someone who spent over 30 years in the healthcare industry, which, unfortunately, is what it has become, I watched it become more and more politically correct and more woke. But wokeness has been taken to a new level, and it probably has nothing to do with qualities you might be looking for in a healthcare professional, more specifically, a nurse.