A Challenge to Racial Politics in Medicine

Doctors sue to stop a California requirement to teach ‘implicit bias.

The diversity, equity and inclusion bureaucracy has injected progressive politics into many corners of the private economy, but its role in medicine is especially pernicious. Now a lawsuit is challenging whether California can force doctors who teach continuing medical education courses to also teach racial politics.

Under a 2019 California mandate, all continuing medical education courses in the state after 2022 must include a discussion of “implicit bias.” This is the notion that doctors supposedly harbor racist views they don’t realize they have, and thus must be taught to recognize and admit them. All such courses must include lessons on “how implicit bias affects perceptions and treatment decisions of physicians and surgeons, leading to disparities in health outcomes,” or “strategies to address” the unintended bias.

Read more at the Wall Street Journal.

Physicians sue to end implicit bias training requirement in California

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Two physicians and a nonprofit group have filed a lawsuit against the Medical Board of California to stop it from enforcing a state requirement for physicians to study the role of implicit bias in health inequities as part of continuing medical education, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. 

A California state law that took effect Jan. 1, 2022, requires medical professionals to study implicit bias as part of the 50 hours of continuing education they are required to take every two years to renew their license to practice.

Read more at Becker’s Hospital Review.

Lawsuit Challenges California’s’ DEI Program for Doctors

A nonprofit and two individuals filed a lawsuit Tuesday against California for its diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives required for prospective medical doctors.

Do No Harm, a group formed last year to oppose DEI in medicine, joined Los Angeles-based anesthesiologist Dr. Marilyn Singleton and ophthalmologist Dr. Azadeh Khatibi in suing the Medical Board of California.

Read more at Newsmax.

California sued by doctors over ‘implicit bias’ DEI training requirements

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Two doctors and medical advocacy group Do No Harm are suing California over its law requiring that doctors complete “implicit bias” training as part of their continuing medical education.

DNH and Dr. Marilyn Singleton, a Los Angeles anesthesiologist, joined Dr. Azadeh Khatibi, a Los Angeles ophthalmologist, in its suit against the Medical Board of California.

Read more at the Washington Examiner.

Doctors Sue Over Blue State Law Mandating ‘Implicit Bias’ Training For Physicians

Doctors in California sued the state for mandating so-called “implicit bias” training for physicians in continuing education courses, according to a press release from Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF).

California passed Assembly Bill 241 in 2019, which mandates so-called “implicit bias” trainings for doctors by law, in which they are required to learn about their so-called “unconscious bias” against certain racial groups. Dr. Azadeh Khatibi and Dr. Marilyn Singleton filed a lawsuit against the state along with Pacific Legal Foundation and Do No Harm, a medical activist organization, arguing that being forced to participate in so-called “implicit bias” training by the state violates the First Amendment.

Read more at the Daily Caller.

Isolated

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The American College of Surgeons banned me for questioning its rush to embrace critical race theory.

My isolation within the American College of Surgeons began over a year ago, on April 17, 2022. This was the day that Tyler Hughes, general secretary of the ACS and editor-in-chief of its online forum, informed me that I had been banned for life. I had inquired why I could not access the Communities, the online discussion forum of the ACS, for nearly two weeks. Neither could I access the members directory or my own private messages. Hughes made it clear that this was to be a permanent ban.

 Why was I banned? For questioning the ACS’s rush to embrace critical race theory.

Read more at City Journal.

Richard Bosshardt, M.D. is a visiting fellow at Do No Harm.

Kentucky nursing board threatened licenses to push ‘racism’ training

The Kentucky Board of Nursing has denied claims its mandatory “structural racism” training was enforced through the threat of license revocation, but Kentucky law shows nurses could be stripped of their licenses for failing to comply with the board’s orders.

The Washington Examiner previously reported that Kentucky nurses were mandated to take the courses or face “civil sanction or discipline,” as the board suggested, but new information offers insight into the breadth of consequences nurses could face for declining to do so.

Read more at the Washington Examiner.

Birth of a Woke Myth: A new study on mass shootings is a prime example of public health’s growing penchant for policy-based evidence-making

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Is there any limit to the degree to which “researchers” will discredit themselves to prove their woke bona fides? A new study published in JAMA Surgery suggests not.

The study, “Association Between Markers of Structural Racism and Mass Shooting Events in Major US Cities,” purportedly seeks to understand whether evidence exists that “structural racism” plays a role in mass-shooting events.

To test their theory, the researchers quantitatively examine the correlation between mass shootings and “structural racism.” They define mass shootings as any incident in which four or more people are shot, and they define “structural racism” according to various factors, including the percentage of black population in a major metropolitan area, the proportion of children living in a single-parent household, the violent crime rate, and measures of segregation and income inequality.

Read more at City Journal.

Doctors Should Take Course on Systemic Racism and White Privilege, American College of Radiology Says

A professional medical society representing thousands of doctors and scientists in the radiology speciality is pushing its members to take a course on systemic racism and white privilege.

Doctors and medical students involved with the American College of Radiology (ACR) are strongly urged to take a course called “Health Equity: Life in Black and White,” according to screenshots obtained by American Accountability Foundation and exclusively provided to National Review by medical ethics nonprofit Do No Harm.

Read more at National Review.

Kentucky requires nurses to take training on ‘structural racism’ and ‘white-splaining’

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The Kentucky Board of Nursing mandated nurses to take an “implicit bias” course to “recognize the history of racism in healthcare” and threatened “discipline” for failure to do so.

The ultimatum to complete the “mandatory continuing education” training, which was developed by the Kentucky Nurses Association, forced nurses to complete the training by July 1.

Read more at the Washington Examiner.

Florida Medical College Quietly Scrubs ‘Discriminatory’ Program From Website During Biden Admin Investigation

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A Florida medical college quietly deleted information regarding its elective scholar’s program from its website amid a federal investigation by the Department of Education Office of Civil Rights (OCR).

The OCR opened an investigation in April into the University of Florida College of Medicine – Jacksonville’s Visiting Elective Scholars Program in the Department of Pediatrics, which listed that it was limited to “Black/African-American, Hispanic/Latino, Native American, Pacific Islander/Native Hawaiian, and LGBTQ+” applicants, according to an archived version of the site. Since the OCR opened the investigation into the program, the website appears to have been scrubbed of all information regarding the program, according to its current version.

Read more at the Daily Caller.

How opposing daughter’s gender transition made parents ‘enemy’ to US medical establishment

EXCLUSIVE — When Tandy Lynn Hebert’s and Sean Chiasson’s daughter Violet was 13 years old, she struggled with her identity to the point of self-harm. The young girl cut herself “enough to where she has scars that look like ridges,” Chiasson said, and even attempted suicide.

That is when Violet was brought to the Children’s Hospital of New Orleans, where Hebert and Chiasson were confronted by Louisiana laws and hospital protocols stacked against their ability to decide what was best for their child.

Read more at the Washington Examiner.

GOP-Controlled Louisiana Senate Passes Bill Banning Child Sex Changes Over Dem Governor’s Veto

Both houses of the Louisiana legislature voted Tuesday to override Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards’ veto of a bill banning sex changes in the state.

The state House of Representatives has voted 75 to 23 to overturn Governor Edward’s June 2023 veto. Three Democrats voted with Republicans in the House to overturn the veto. The state Senate voted 28 to 11 to override the ban, with Republican state Sen. Fred Mills voting with Democrats. Mills briefly killed the bill in committee in May, arguing that child sex-change decisions “should be made by a patient and a physician.”

Read more at the Daily Caller.

Amid transgender care bans, exceptions made for surgery on intersex children

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Intersex people don’t fit into the traditional male and female binary.

When Sean Saifa Wall was 13, a doctor recommended to his mother that Wall’s male-typical genitals be removed and that he begin feminizing hormone therapy.

He says his late mother agreed to the surgery and treatment, but Wall adds that his mother picked the wrong gender for him.

Read more at ABC News.

GOP Senator to Introduce Legislation Banning Irreversible Transgender Surgeries for Minors

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GOP Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance will reportedly introduce legislation that will outlaw experimental, irreversible transgender surgeries for minors. 

Vance will introduce the legislation, called the “Protect Children’s Innocence Act.” which was introduced by Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R) in the House of Representatives. Vance’s legislation was first reported by The Daily Caller.

Read more at Townhall.

Louisiana House votes to override governor veto of ban on minor gender transitions

The Louisiana State House voted on Tuesday to override Gov. John Bel Edward’s (D) veto of a bill banning gender transition medicine for minors.

The chamber voted, 75 to 23 with 7 abstentions, in a special session to override the veto of HB 648, which prevents healthcare providers from facilitating medical gender transitions for minors, including the prescription of cross-sex hormones and puberty blockers.

Read more at the Washington Examiner.

‘Have The Courage’: Parent Rights Advocates Urge GOP Lawmakers To Overturn Dem Governor’s Veto On Trans Bill

Parents rights advocates are urging Republican lawmakers to overturn Democrat Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards’ veto of a bill banning sex changes for minors.

HB 648 bans doctors from providing sex change treatments — including puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and sex change surgeries — to children under 18 years old. Doctors who defy the order risk losing their medical license.

Read more at the Daily Caller.

Dr. Stanley Goldfarb on the Schilling Show

Do No Harm chair Dr. Stanley Goldfarb joins Steve Milloy on The Schilling Show to discuss identity politics, how it’s impacted medicine, and how to fight back.

Listen at NewsRadio WINA.

https://soundcloud.com/1070wina/the-schilling-show-71023-dr-stanley-goldfarb-steve-milloy