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

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.”

Read more on The National Desk.

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.

Read more at the National Review.

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.

Read more on Fox News.

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

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.

Read more on the Daily Caller.

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

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

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.”

Read more on OCPA.

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

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.”

Read more on the Washington Examiner.

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.

Read more on the Wall Street Journal.

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

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.

Read more on the New York Post.

Nurses Earning Continuing Education Credits for Being More Woke

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. 

Read more on RedState.

Nurses can listen to podcasts about ‘racism,’ ‘health equity’ to earn credit hours: American Nurses Association

Nurses can earn free credit hours by listening to a bundle of podcasts about “racism,” “health equity,” and “activism” promoted by the American Nurses Association, the Daily Caller News Foundation was the first report Tuesday.

A Tuesday X post from the ANA encourages nurses to listen to its “curated podcast bundles” that each offer free continuing nursing education credits.

“This holiday season, give yourself the gift of up to 28 complimentary #CNE credits with SEVEN exciting #SeeYouNow #podcast bundles (worth four contact hours each). Explore our bundles and register for one or all at no cost!” the ANA’s post stated.

Read more on The Blaze.

Doctor hiring network is hit with racial discrimination lawsuit after offering program with $100,000 bonus only to black applicants

The country’s largest doctors’ co-op is being taken to court over a recruitment scheme that offers up to $100,000 as a signing-on bonus only to black medics.

Vituity, which treats over 8million patients a year, offers the bonus under its ‘Bridges to Brilliance’ program in a bid to attract more black applicants.

But the campaign group Do No Harm is asking a Florida court to rule that the scheme amounts to unlawful racial discrimination under the Civil Rights Act.

The case could deal another blow to affirmative action programs which have been tottering since the Supreme Court ruled them unconstitutional in a case brought against Harvard University earlier this year.

‘Black patients want the best doctors and the best medical care, not doctors that are racially concordant,’ said Do No Harm chairman Stanley Goldfarb.

Read more on the Daily Mail.

EXCLUSIVE: Nurses Earn Credits For Listening To Podcasts On ‘Activism’ And ‘Rooting Out Racism’

The American Nurses Association (ANA) is promoting podcasts on “activism” and “rooting out racism” to nurses seeking Continuing Nursing Education (CNE) credits, the Daily Caller has learned exclusively.

Nurses can earn 12 complimentary credit hours by listening to three “bundles” of episodes of the podcast See You Now, co-hosted by Johnson and Johnson, according to emails obtained by the Daily Caller. The bundles, which are provided free of charge, include “Nurses Inspiring Nurses,” “Advocacy to Activism” and “Rooting Out Racism.”

Read more on the Daily Caller.

Doctors network hiring initiative unfairly rewards only Black applicants, lawsuit alleges

FIRST ON FOX – A national physicians group is facing a lawsuit for a prestigious program carrying a $100,000 bonus that is only open to Black applicants. 

Vituity is a 100% physician owned and operated patient medical network operating across the country that offers a range of medical care. They reportedly see 8 million patients annually and operate out of 450 practice locations. As part of its efforts to attract talent, Vituity offers a physician incentive program that includes a $100,000 signing bonus.

But Vituity is facing legal trouble with its “Bridge to Brilliance Program” because it apparently is only open to Black physicians, according to a new lawsuit. The doctors group Do No Harm says  the program amounts to racial discrimination in violation of federal law. 

Read more on Fox News.

Med schools redo ‘diversity’ programs after federal complaints

Several medical schools across the nation have recently amended or scaled back diversity, equity and inclusion programs and policies after they were flagged by Do No Harm, a medical advocacy group that seeks to push back against declining meritocratic standards and DEI encroachments in med school curricula.

The watchdog organization has filed more than 140 complaints with the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights within the last two years, and nearly 40 investigations have been opened so far, with 30 still active, according to a spokesperson.

The complaints targeted universities that illegally discriminated based on race for scholarships, fellowships, awards and academic programs in an effort to advance DEI initiatives.

Do No Harm’s latest victory came after the University of Colorado’s Anschutz Medical Campus ended “three ‘diversity’ scholarships that restricted eligibility on the basis of race, sexual orientation, or gender identity,” according to a Dec. 5 announcement.

Read more on The College Fix.

Physicians propose med schools focus more on ‘oppression,’ ‘race’ than ‘medical expertise’

A Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons proposal to teach Canadian medical students more about “anti-racism” and “oppression” than “medical expertise” has doctors and academics alarmed.

This week, Do No Harm, a medical watchdog group, launched a petition for physicians to oppose the recommendation, saying it would “corrupt medicine” in Canada.

“The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons may force medical students to learn more about ‘anti-racism’ than actual medicine. Canadian health care is on the fast track to racial division and discrimination,” the organization stated Monday.

Read more on The College Fix.

OSU Health Course Requires Students to Address ‘White,’ ‘Heterosexual’ Privileges

A class at Ohio State University (OSU) is reportedly making its students address their so-called “whiteness,” as well as explain what the term “white” means, and how they “navigate race” in their daily lives.

The course requires students to take part in discussions and assignments about gender and race, including one task that involves addressing their so-called “privileges” if they are white, heterosexual, or able-bodied, according to documents obtained by Fox News.

The class, titled, “Individual Differences in Patient/Client Populations,” is offered through OSU’s School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences.

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