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Med School Lectures Future Doctors On Power Dynamics Between Different ‘Social Identities,’ Slides Reveal

A Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis course trained students on the “power” dynamics between different “social identities” during a lecture titled “Matrix of Social Identity,” according to a presentation obtained by medical watchdog Do No Harm (DNH) and shared with the Daily Caller News Foundation.

The lecture defined the matrix as a “framework” that is “reflective of U.S. culture and society” and that is “helpful for understanding how relationships to power differ,” according to a copy of the slides obtained by DNH. The instructor explained to the medical students that racial discrimination can only be considered racism if the person identifies with a group in a position of “power,” according to the audio shared with the DCNF by DNH that was first leaked online by the Twitter account Mythinformed in February.

Read more at the Daily Caller.

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DeFlorida Blueprint: DeSantis challenges medical establishment in shaping GOP health policy

In his four years in office, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) has set a new conservative playbook for healthcare, from his defiant response to the coronavirus pandemic to his care network to combat opioid addiction.

Beyond the headlines of his war on woke, DeSantis has racked up a policy record that will serve as the foundation for his national political ambitions and expected 2024 White House bid.

Read more at the Washington Examiner.

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Arkansas health agency ends race-based scholarship after lawsuit

The Arkansas Minority Health Commission agreed to settle a lawsuit that accused the state government agency of violating federal law by providing a scholarship to exclusively minority students entering the healthcare field.

The lawsuit was filed last month by the medical watchdog group Do No Harm, which said in court filings that the commission was violating federal law prohibiting discrimination on the basis of race. Under the terms of the Monday settlement agreement, the commission agreed to discontinue the scholarship.

Read more at the Washington Examiner.

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I’m a doctor and my Black parents saw me break free of segregation. Now medical schools are bringing it back

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Medical schools are returning to ‘separate but equal,’ but doctors know we’re all the same on the inside

My mother and father went to segregated schools, separated from Whites because they were Black. They told me, as a child, that they wanted better for me. They got their wish when I went to Stanford University and then the University of California at San Francisco’s medical school, both fully integrated and welcoming. Before they passed away, they firmly believed that the era of separating people by race was over forever.  

My parents were wrong. 

Read more at Fox News.

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How America’s Obsession with DEI Is Sabotaging Our Medical Schools

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‘I spent over 50 years as a physician and educator at Penn Med. Now I’m using civil rights legislation to protect the profession—and American patients.’

For better or worse, I have had a front-row seat to the meltdown of twenty-first-century medicine. Many colleagues and I are alarmed at how the DEI agenda—which promotes people and policies based on race, ethnicity, gender, religion, and sexual orientation rather than merit—is undermining healthcare for all patients regardless of their status.

Five years ago I was associate dean of curriculum at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine, and prior to that, codirector of its highly regarded kidney division. Around that time, Penn’s vice dean for education started to advocate that we train medical students to be activists for “social justice.” The university also implemented a new “pipeline program,” allowing ten students a year from HBCUs (historically black colleges or universities) to attend its med school after maintaining a 3.6 GPA but no other academic requirement, including not taking the MCAT (Medical College Admission Test). And the university has also created a project called Penn Medicine and the Afterlives of Slavery Project(PMAS) in order to “reshape medical education. . . by creating social justice-informed medical curricula that use race critically and in an evidence-based way to train the next generation of race-conscious physicians.” Finally, twenty clinical departments at the medical school now have vice chairs for diversity and inclusion. 

Read more at The Free Press.

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Influential trans care doctor once warned puberty blockers could cause permanent sexual dysfunction

Marci Bowers, the ‘Beyoncé of Bottom Surgery,’ denies flip-flopping, says blockers are ‘safe and reversible’

The president of World Professional Association for Transgender Health, Marci Bowers, has done a 180-degree turn on the use of sex change drugs on minors during a critical puberty stage after previously sounding the alarm about its potential to cause permanent sexual dysfunction for the rest of a child’s life.

The turn on hormone recommendations occurred around the time Bowers joined WPATH as president, one of the most powerful organizations which sets global standards for trans care for children and adults. The professional standards set by WPATH are observed by leading providers, including the U.S. Department of Defense, gender clinics across the U.S. – such as Boston Children’s Hospital, as well as insurance companies.

Read more at Fox News.

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New England Journal of Medicine is SLAMMED for suggesting students should be broken into groups segregated by race for medical education

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The New England Journal of Medicine has been strongly criticized for publishing an academic paper calling for medical students to be taught in racially-segregated groups, with the idea condemned as ‘morally abhorrent’.

The article, written by seven academics, doctors and students at the University of California, San Francisco, was published by the esteemed journal on April 27.

Read more at the Daily Mail.

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Pentagon doctor claims prescribing transgender drugs to minors can cause psychotic illness to ‘melt away’

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I think that it’s more likely that when [transgender] treatments are optimized, these diagnoses start to melt away over time,’ a doctor treating adolescents at Travis Force Air Base said

FIRST ON FOX – Children taking anti-psychotic medication in the military health system for serious mental illness were later administered “gender-affirming pharmaceuticals,” according to Department of Defense health records, with one of its air base physicians claiming the gender drugs could “melt away” psychotic conditions such as a schizophrenia diagnosis.  

A study published in The Journal of Sexual Medicine in 2021 entitled, “Mental Healthcare Utilization of Transgender Youth Before and After Affirming Treatment,” discussed internal DoD health records from 2010-2018. 

Read more at Fox News.

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Feds award Penn $406,000 to study ‘racial/ethnic health disparities’ from COVID

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Federal agency behind grant has a goal of ‘advancing health equity’

The University of Pennsylvania’s School of Nursing has received $406,250 in federal funds to study how to ensure equal health outcomes among ethnic groups using data from the outbreak of COVID-19.

The project, “Achieving Health Equity During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons Learned From Nurses and High Performing Hospitals,” will rely on surveys of over 22,000 nurses to develop “innovative models of care delivery…that are associated with equitable outcomes,” according to an abstract.

Read more at The College Fix.

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Arkansas lawsuit seeks to end discrimination for scholarship based on racial discrimination

A judge set an aggressive schedule to review a possible immediate injunction

A lawsuit against the Arkansas Minority Health Commission seeks to end discrimination on scholarship decisions which currently exclude White and Arab American applicants. 

“Today Do No Harm is asking the court for a temporary restraining order and a preliminary injunction to immediately stop the Arkansas Minority Health Commission from making scholarship decisions based on the race requirement that excludes white and Arab students,” Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, Board Chair of Do No Harm told Fox News Digital.

Read more at Fox News.

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EXCLUSIVE: Children’s Hospital Offers Consultations On Transgender Treatments To Kids Younger Than 10

Doernbecher Children’s Hospital, a children’s hospital affiliated with Oregon Health & Science University, offers consultations on transgender treatments to children younger than 10, the Daily Caller has learned.

Doernbecher’s Gender Clinic offers patients up to 18 years of age consultations with puberty specialists and experts on hormone therapy, as well as a “gender-affirming environment,” according to their website.

Read more at the Daily Caller.

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‘Appalling’: Unearthed Documents Reveal How Hospital Pushes Medical Transitions On Children

  • Seattle Children’s Hospital offers education guides that encourage medical professionals to quickly offer cross-sex medical treatments such as menstrual suppression and puberty blockers to youth patients with gender identity issues.
  • The guides largely fail to mention mental health services, and indicate that they are optional and must be sought through outside institutions; the hospital’s gender clinic does not offer long-term mental health therapy. 
  • “The most damning aspect of these documents is the repeated assertion that the gender clinic does not provide mental health services,” Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, former associate dean for curriculum at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and current chair of Do No Harm, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “The notion that these children, who are often depressed, anxious, and even autistic, are not provided with those services in a way that is closely linked with the activities of the gender clinic is appalling.”

Seattle Children’s Hospital encourages medical professionals to offer swift biomedical interventions as the default treatment for young patients with gender identity issues, even when parents are skeptical, and largely avoids recommending mental health services to gender dysphoric youth, according to documents published by the hospital.

The hospital, which recently attracted criticism for advertising transgender surgical procedures for minors, published several guides to instruct medical professionals on their treatment decisions regarding “gender affirming medical care” for youth. The guides promote puberty blockers and menstrual suppression drugs for young patients, do not list mental health screenings as a necessary step before medications are administered and instead indicate that mental health treatments are optional and must be sought externally.

Read more at the Daily Caller.

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Top Swedish Doctors blow whistle on trans puberty-suppressing drugs affecting children’s bones: ‘Experimental’

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‘My son shouldn’t be this way at his age,’ a mother whose son developed osteopenia after taking puberty blockers, said

Swedish doctors at a top medical school released a systemic review of available medical literature on providing puberty blockers to children, and said its use for treating gender dysphoria should be considered “experimental.”

Doctors at the Karolinska Institute, ranked as a top 15 medical school in Europe, published an article in Acta Paediatrica on April 17, which was partly funded by an independent Swedish governmental agency tasked with assessing methods used in healthcare and making recommendations. The review analyzed thousands of studies, and focused on those without significant bias. 

Read more at Fox News.

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‘Dangerous Trend’: Medical Schools Are Ditching Standardized Tests In The Name of ‘Diversity’

  • Medical schools are continuing to drop Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) requirements in favor of alternative routes available to prospective applicants, experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
  • Dropping the MCAT in favor of holistic admission practices may negatively impact the medical profession by “eliminating” a “standard for schools to consider when admitting students who demonstrate the aptitude to be good doctors,” Laura Morgan, Do No Harm program manager, told the DCNF.
  • “It’s not adequate because it is subjective, as opposed to standardized tests which are objective metrics,” she explained.

    A developing medical school trend to ditch the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) requirement may not bode well for the future of the profession, medical watchdog group Do No Harm told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

    Approximately 40 medical schools across the country have dropped the MCAT, a multiple choice exam that determines an individual’s ability to problem solve, think critically, and understand concepts about medical study, as a requirement for some applying students, according to a list compiled by Inspira Advantage. Do No Harm alleged that dropping the requirement is another way schools aim to bolster diversity on campus but asserted that it is a “dangerous trend,” according to its analysis.

    Read more at the the Daily Caller.

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    Indiana University’s ‘Implicit Bias’ Training Module for Hiring Faculty Under Scrutiny

    The Indiana University Office of Academic Affairs is under scrutiny for its “implicit bias” training module about hiring practices at the university.

    Do No Harm (DNH), an organization that spotlights discriminatory practices in academic and medical institutions, highlighted a training module used at the university for faculty search committees, encouraging committee members to consider ideological concepts such as their own “implicit bias” and “whiteness” instead of the applicant’s experience.

    Read more at The Epoch Times.

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    UT Southwestern teaches med students that ‘gender is independent of physical structure, chromosomes, or genes’

    Gender is a ‘psychological, social, and cultural construct, including self-identification,’ the university teaches

    Documents obtained by Fox News Digital show that University of Texas Southwestern medical students are being taught that gender is independent of physical structure.

    Fox News Digital obtained the documents via a FOIA request from Do No Harm, a national association of medical professionals that combats “woke” activism in the healthcare system.

    Read more at Fox News.

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    University of Missouri medical school had students watch scientifically suspect TED Talks

    FOIA records show orientation programming conflated sex and gender identity, “professional development” training claimed misgendering causes psychological harm. Both included “unconscious bias” book.

    The University of Missouri School of Medicine has trained employees and incoming students to see medicine through the lens of trendy ideologies on race and gender, according to materials shared exclusively with Just the News, and it’s not clear the programs were scientifically valid.

    Advocacy group Do No Harm, which targets wokeness in medicine, provided the only two documents Mizzou Med turned over in response to Freedom of Information Act requests spanning the 2020-2022 academic years. Both are from 2020.

    Read more at Just the News.

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    Medicine Goes Woke

    Physician and Do No Harm chairman Stanley Goldfarb joins Brian C. Anderson on the 10 Blocks podcast to discuss the racialization of medical research and treatments.

    Listen at City Journal.