Do No Harm board chair Dr. Stanley Goldfarb joins ‘America’s Newsroom’ to discuss his organization’s report that found identity politics have been adopted by U.S. medicine and resulted in a ‘fertile ground’ for antisemitism.
Conventional wisdom holds that the current outpouring of anti-Semitism on college campuses is just the latest outburst of an ancient hatred.
There’s no doubt that hatred of Jews has a long history.
What’s happening today also bears the hallmark of a newer evil: Critical Race Theory (CRT). The language that students are using when violently protesting or tearing down posters of Hamas’s victims is the language of racial division and woke ideology, applied to the Jews.
Read more on Newsmax.
Antisemitism is now a full-blown crisis on the college campus, but it doesn’t end there: Similar hatred is increasingly widespread in the medical profession, where it’s even more dangerous.
Doctors, nurses and medical students who are supposed to heal are instead promoting hate — a fact that should terrify Jewish patients and anyone else who expects equal and excellent medical care.
In a new report, we’ve documented many of the antisemitic outbursts that have characterized much of medicine since Oct. 7.
Read more on the New York Post.
A wave of open Jew-hatred by medical professionals, medical schools, and professional associations in the wake of the Hamas slaughter suggests that a field entrusted with healing is becoming a licensed purveyor of hatred..
Read more on Tablet Magazine.
How do you know when the good guys are winning? When the bad guys start denying what they’re really doing.
Such is the case with the most ardent defenders of “diversity, equity, and inclusion” in higher education. More states are trying to drive this divisive and discriminatory ideology off the college campus. Florida governor Ron DeSantis signed a law to that effect in May, while Wisconsin’s Republican state legislature is pushing for a similar policy. The 2024 state legislative season may see at least a dozen states enact reforms.
Read more in National Review.
The Lancet, one of the world’s oldest and most influential medical journals, agreed to publish an open letter signed by more than 3,000 physicians and demanding actions that would undermine Israel’s ability to protect itself from another Oct. 7-style terrorist attack. The letter also framed Israel’s response to the massacre of its citizens as an attack on “human rights.”
A few weeks after the letter received stiff criticism, The Lancet appears to have reconsidered.
“This is a copy of the letter titled ‘A Call to Action: An Open Letter from Global Health Professionals’ as it was to appear in an academic journal,” reads a note on the document. “Following acceptance and copy-editing by the journal, the decision to publish was rescinded.”
Read more on the Daily Signal.
Dr. Stanley Goldfarb joins the Moms on a Mission Podcast again to discuss his book, “Take Two Aspirin And Call Me By My Pronouns” and the infection of social justice and opinion- based medicine into American medicine. He exposes the fact that there is no evidence based data being used to support the hijacking of our healthcare system. He says that if we focus on sociopolitical issues and identity politics in attempting to resolve disparities, we are definitely going to fail because there is no evidence that that is the solution to the problem.
Prominent mental health organizations have come out in support of transgender ideology, demanding that counselors affirm feelings of gender dysphoria in patients and advocate for policies that push transgenderism in schools.
The American School Counselor Association (ASCA), which reports a membership of 43,000 counselors and has certified trainers across the country, is demanding that school counselors “promote affirmation” for those who identify as transgender.
“Schools should make every effort to use students’ chosen/affirmed names on student records, even if a legal name change has not been made,” a statement from the organization reads, before saying that individual staff members should also use students’ “affirmed name.”
Read more on the Daily Wire.
Do No Harm (DNH), an organization that monitors divisive ideologies infiltrating health care institutions, has filed a federal lawsuit regarding what it describes as “unlawful racial quotas” required by the Tennessee state government for medical board appointments.
The Tennessee Board of Podiatric Medical Examiners is required to have one of its members be nonwhite, which DNH states “has nothing to do with podiatry.”
“State medical boards are given important responsibilities to oversee the quality of care in their state and the safety of patients,” said Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, board chair of DNH. “It is crucial that they be the most qualified physicians available. Like all aspects of health care, patient safety and patient concerns should be primary, not the skin color or the racial makeup of any oversight committee.”
Read more on the Epoch Times.
‘The New England Journal of Medicine is the world’s leading health journal. It’s troubling that they indulge woke activists at the expense of common sense and scientific rigor,’ anti-woke group says
A Georgetown University doctor has produced a paper recommending changes to medicine that would make it a more “anti-racist institution.”
Dr. J. Corey Willams, a graduate of Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and the Yale University Psychiatry Residency Program, says that “Clinicians receive inconsistent instruction on how to use patients’ racial identities in clinical documentation and decision making, and often document this information without clear reasons or an understanding of its relevance.”
“Routine documentation of racial categories is rooted in the mythology of inherent biological differences between racial groups, especially between Black and non-Hispanic White people,” he wrote in the New England Journal of Medicine paper. He had eight other co-authors.
Read more on The College Fix.
A Virginia-based nonprofit group called Do No Harm filed a lawsuit Wednesday against Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee, attempting to block a mandate that every government regulatory board has at least one member who is a racial minority.
The Pacific Legal Foundation filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Nashville after a Tennessee resident and Do Not Harm member has not been placed on the Board of Podiatric Medical Examiners because he was not a racial minority.
Two positions on the six-member board became open in June and one of the spots being vacated includes the only board member who is a racial minority.
Read more on The Center Square.
An association of medical professionals filed a lawsuit against Tennessee Wednesday over a requirement that one member of each government licensing board be a racial minority.
One of the two seats that opened on Tennessee’s Board of Podiatric Medical Examiners in June must be reserved for a racial minority. The Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF) filed a lawsuit challenging the requirement on behalf of the medical organization Do No Harm, which has “one or more members who are qualified, willing, and able to be appointed to the Board of Podiatric Examiners, if the racial mandates were enjoined,” according to the complaint.
Read more on the Daily Caller.
The Supreme Court’s ruling this summer in Students for Fair Admissions ended racial preferences among college applicants, but the task of extending that legal precedent for colorblindness is only beginning. Medicine might be one field to watch next, since it’s a place where the use of racial selection criteria persists under state mandates.
On Wednesday a group called Do No Harm, which says it’s “dedicated to eliminating racial discrimination in healthcare,” plans to file a federal lawsuit challenging Tennessee’s rules for appointments to more than 70 state boards, according to the draft complaint. That includes the Board of Podiatric Medical Examiners, created in 1931, whose six members are chosen by the Governor to regulate podiatry practice.
Read more on the Wall Street Journal.
Texas A&M University’s School of Nursing set a threshold for showing a “commitment to diversity and inclusion” to hire faculty, according to documents.
A “Handbook for Faculty Search Committee Members” revised in February set diversity, equity, and inclusion standards for recruiting and hiring new faculty members.
The guidelines encourage having applicants write essays on their “personal commitment to diversity and inclusion” and how it “informs their past and future professional contributions.”
According to the document, which was obtained through a public records request, this shows applicants that “diversity and inclusion are core values for your department and college,” adding that hiring committees can set their own standards as to how to weigh commitment to DEI in hiring but to “consider setting a minimally acceptable score for the DEI commitment statement.”
Read more on the Washington Examiner.
Indiana University School of Medicine has doubled down on its embrace of gender ideology in contradiction with biological reality, despite widespread media coverage of one of its courses.
Documents obtained by Do No Harm and provided exclusively to The College Fix show the public university continues to teach sex and gender are both “non-binary.”
“Genetic female” and “genetic male” are the “two most common chromosomal patterns,” the slides say, “but there are others.”
The “Sex and Gender Primer” slides also instruct aspiring doctors that what they learn today could become dated – “Linguistic practices are open to change as LGBTQIA+ advocates refine their perspectives on language.”
Read more on The College Fix.
Hell hath no fury like a donor scorned.
In recent days, a generous supporters have withdrawn or threatened to withdraw financial support from the University of Pennsylvania, where I used to teach. The list includes former U.S. ambassador Jon Huntsman, hedge-fund tycoon Cliff Asness, and Estee Lauder heir Ronald Lauder, to name a few. They’re furious over Penn’s pathetic response to anti-Semitism on campus following Hamas’s barbaric terrorist attack on Israel. The same thing is happening at other prominent schools, especially Harvard.
The donors should be angry, but withholding money won’t make much difference. Donors need to demand concrete reforms—especially rolling back the all-pervasive “diversity, equity, and inclusion” regime that gives cover to and encourages anti-Semites.
I say this as a former associate dean and professor at Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine, where I worked for 53 years, and as a Jewish person. For decades, I saw the hateful shenanigans that are, sadly, endemic to every prestigious university—the constant student protests against Israeli occupation; the fake graves representing dead Palestinians, including terrorists, suddenly appearing on campus overnight; and more.
Read more on City Journal.
The group Physician Assistant Education Association (PAEA), which trains physician assistants (PA), held “anti-racism town halls,” according to leaked emails obtained exclusively by the Daily Caller.
PAEA is a membership-based group that represents PA educational programs. The group conducts learning programs at schools that train PAs across the country, including various professional development workshops.
The anti-racism events took place in September and provided “a space for PA students, faculty, and staff to share their stories, experiences, and feelings on racism that continues to pervade the fabric of the country,” according to an email.
Read more on the Daily Caller.
All schools must hire DEI leaders to remain accredited
Osteopathic medical schools that want to remain accredited must show they support “diversity, equity, and inclusion” according to the new standards from the accreditor of those institutions.
The American Osteopathic Association has recently revised its accreditation standards to include DEI commitments. All of its colleges have until July 1, 2024 to become fully compliant.
All colleges “must include a commitment to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in its mission, values, vision, goals, or objectives,” according to the standards.
They must offer an annual DEI training to all faculty and staff and “have space available for use by students in a manner intended to support diversity, equity, and inclusion, and must consult with students in the process of establishing such a space.”
Read more on The College Fix.