This morning, the Center for Accountability in Medicine, in conjunction with Do No Harm, released the results of a survey of voters and doctors in Florida concerning DEI in healthcare.
The survey compares the views of medical professionals with the stances of major medical organizations on hot-button issues such as DEI and “gender-affirming care” in medicine. It turns out there’s quite a disparity between doctors and medical organizations regarding those issues.
Read more on Townhall.
If there’s a beating heart to the “resistance,” it’s surely the medical establishment.
Prestigious organizations — from the American Medical Association to the American Academy of Pediatrics — routinely criticize the Trump administration for its many reforms. More broadly, these medical elites oppose virtually every effort to get divisive racial and gender ideology out of medicine and society at large. They give the impression that doctors are united in support of “diversity, equity, and inclusion,” as well as transgender drugs and procedures for children. The medical establishment’s loud voice can be confusing for the majority of Americans.
Read more on National Review.
A new JAMA Network Open paper urges medical schools and policymakers to use “alternative strategies” to preserve racial diversity after the Supreme Court’s 2023 ruling against the use of affirmative action.
But such strategies could still function as race-based preferences if used to engineer specific racial outcomes, according to an expert.
Read more on The College Fix.
(The Center Square) – While many colleges have been shutting down DEI centers since January to comply with executive orders, Temple University’s medical school is simultaneously rebranding its diversity, equity and inclusion center and doubling down on its commitment to equity.
Director of Do No Harm’s Center for Accountability in Medicine Ian Kingsbury told The Center Square: “The Katz School of Medicine at Temple is doing a disservice to patients and students (present and future) by continuing to peddle ideological poison.”
Read more on The Center Square.
A woman who has “detransitioned” — and who regrets her transition from female to male as a young teen — told a Douglas County judge on Thursday that she supports Kansas’ law that bans gender-affirming medical interventions for minors.
“If California had a law like this when I was 13, none of this would have happened to me,” said Chloe Cole, a well-known 21-year-old activist from California who has testified before numerous state legislatures and who works for an organization called Do No Harm.
Read more on the Lawrence Journal-World.
The University of California system made news earlier this year when it eliminated mandatory diversity statements for new hires. But at California’s other public university system, DEI isn’t in retreat—it’s required.
Nearly every California State University campus requires students to pass at least one diversity and cultural competency class, according to graduation criteria identified by Do No Harm, a group that opposes identity politics in medicine. The exact requirements vary across schools, but they typically prescribe a specific course or allow students to pick from a list of classes that “explore the interrelatedness and intersection of race and ethnicity with class, gender and sexuality, and other forms of difference, hierarchy, and oppression.”
Read more at The Washington Free Beacon.
(The Center Square) – Two groups have sued a Michigan law firm for operating scholarships they allege are “racially discriminatory.”
Do No Harm, a national anti-DEI policy advocacy group, and the American Alliance for Equal Rights, filed the suit last week on behalf of three students against the law firm, Buckfire & Buckfire, P.C.
Read more on The Center Square.
The U.S. Supreme Court has been “clear that Title VI and the Constitution do not allow the use of racial preferences … or the use of a stand-in for racial preferences,” attorney Reilly Stephens told The College Fix regarding a new discrimination lawsuit against the University of New Mexico.
Stevens is a senior counsel for the Liberty Justice Center, which filed the claim against the University of New Mexico School of Medicine. It alleges that the public institution engaged in race-based admissions decisions in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act and the U.S. Constitution.
Read more on The College Fix.
The organization that facilitates medical education in the United States promised to fight federal and state efforts to crack down on transgender ideology, leaked footage obtained by The Daily Wire shows.
Top leadership at the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) promised to continue backing challenges at a town hall meeting last month, according to footage obtained by Do No Harm. In addition to administering the MCAT, the medical school admissions test, the AAMC sponsors the accrediting body for allopathic medical schools.
Read more on Daily Wire.
(The Center Square) – In a win for a return to meritorious health care systems and patient trust in them, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services terminated a Biden-era regulation that rewarded doctors who implemented an “anti-racism” plan.
Medical director at Do No Harm Dr. Kurt Miceli told The Center Square: “This is an essential step towards restoring the public’s trust in our once-esteemed medical institutions.
The University of Minnesota’s taxpayer-funded pregnancy training for state workers was recently updated to include claims that patients get better care from doctors who share their race.
The course, “Dignity in Pregnancy and Childbirth,” teaches employees at Minnesota hospitals that they may have “implicit” or “unconscious bias,” according to a news release from medical advocacy group Do No Harm.
Read more on The College Fix.
Earlier this week, Do No Harm won a major victory over the Biden administration’s discriminatory “anti-racist” Medicare reimbursement rules.
Now the organization, along with the American Alliance for Equal Rights, has filed another suit against the Michigan law firm Buckfire & Buckfire, P.C., for two racially discriminatory scholarship programs.
Read more on Townhall.
A lawsuit filed Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern Division of Michigan against Southfield-based law firm Buckfire and Buckfire is more than a legal dustup. It should prompt Michigan’s academic, business, legal and philanthropic communities to consider whether their diversity initiatives can survive under new legal definitions of equality.
What was once considered diversity could now be considered discrimination.
Read more on the Detroit News (paywall).
A breakout session at a recent medical conference suggests that professional associations remain captured by the transgender ideology, even as the rest of the country reverses course. During the annual conference of the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), October 5-8, a session titled “Gender Affirming Puberty Suppression: Initiation and Management” instructed attendees to gratify a 12-year-old’s desires over and against the counsel of both his parents and the mass of emerging medical evidence.
The AAFP likely expected the materials from their conference to remain private, as they charge a hefty $1,195 to view the sessions online (AAFP members pay a discounted rate of $995). But “truth will out,” and one conference attendee shared the sordid details with National Review, which broke the story.
Read more on The Washington Stand.
You’d think that a medical society would focus fully on medicine. But as I just saw at the Pennsylvania Medical Society’s annual meeting, you’d be wrong.
On Oct. 18, I attended that meeting as a delegate, with the goal of getting the society to adopt my resolution opposing transgender drugs and procedures for children. While 27 states have protected children to varying degrees, Pennsylvania continues to allow teenagers and pre-teens to undergo invasive and irreversible treatments, even as a growing body of research shows how dangerous they are to children’s physical and mental health. Doctors, who take an oath to “do no harm,” have a medical and ethical obligation to protect these uniquely vulnerable young patients.
Read more on RealClear Politics.
Conservatives should welcome a new group, the Hippocratic Society, which will appeal to medical students and physicians of varied political stripes but will be particularly friendly to conservatives who might otherwise find themselves relegated to the margins of the medical profession.
The Federalist Society is a helpful, if imperfect, analogy. Like the Federalist Society, the Hippocratic Society will be a place where conservative views are hosted and put into debate with progressive perspectives. And undoubtedly, conservative-leaning medical students will find colleagues and mentors among its members.
Read more on National Review.
Seeking to bolster support for pediatric “gender care,” the American Academy of Family Physicians devoted a breakout session at its annual conference last month to discuss research asserting that puberty suppression and gender-transition procedures for minors are essential practices, peddling misleading claims about the beneficial effects of such procedures on young people.
The AAFP Family Medicine Experience is a private annual conference “where clinical expertise, practical strategies and real connection come together to lead what’s next in primary care.” The conference is not open to the press; National Review obtained presentation materials from an attendee.
Read more on National Review.
Do No Harm originally started in 2022 to “safeguard healthcare from ideological threats” and now has over 50,000 members, including medical professionals and concerned citizens in every state and 14 countries.
Yesterday, the organization won a major victory over a discriminatory Biden-era rule that awarded physicians who implemented “anti-racism” plans with higher federal payments. Implemented in 2021, the Biden administration sought to advance its “anti-racist” policy agenda by instructing Medicare physicians to “create and implement an anti-racism plan.”
Read more on Townhall.