SHORT PUMP, Virginia — Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, chair of medical advocacy group Do No Harm, warned of a growing movement by American medical schools and professional organizations to “turn physicians into social justice warriors.”
Breitbart News obtained exclusive access to a private lecture to around 130 doctors and medical professionals near Richmond, Virginia, who see their profession under threat of racialized care and politically oriented medical decision making.
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Transgender Assistant Secretary of Health Rachel Levine says that gender-affirming care for minors has the ‘highest support’ of the Biden administration.
Levine has promised that medically changing children’s gender will soon be normalized, praising the controversial medical intervention which has been banned in several states at the Pediatric Grand Rounds Session at Children’s Medical Center in Hartford.
Read more at the Daily Mail.
A professor at Indiana University School of Medicine condemned a lesson inculcating gender ideology among first-year medical students as “anti-scientific” and “anti-biological,” warning that it would have “very detrimental effects to the health care profession” and stating that he had not heard of any internal discussions about the lesson before professors implemented it.
“I did not hear about it until it came out in the news,” the professor, who spoke with The Daily Signal on condition of anonymity, said in a phone interview Wednesday. He said the transgender lesson did not surprise him, however, because “the entire biomedical profession has been conquered by this aggressive ideology that inculcates a certain worldview.”
Read more at The Daily Signal.
The U.S. Department of Education (DOE) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) launched a federal investigation March 6 into St. Louis University (SLU) after a complaint was filed accusing the school of offering a racially discriminatory scholarship, medical watchdog group Do No Harm reported.
The complaint, filed by Do No Harm senior fellow Mark Perry in September, accused SLU School of Medicine’s Scholarship Program for Visiting Medical Students Underrepresented in Medicine violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits race-based discrimination, because it is only accessible to students that identify as a specific race, the OCR letter reads. The office “will investigate whether the University discriminates against students based on race, color, or national origin in connection” with the program.
Read more at the Daily Caller.
The Medical University of South Carolina revised several programs and scholarships after the Department of Education opened an investigation.
The DOE’s Office for Civil Rights informed Mark Perry, a fellow with Do No Harm and a former University of Michigan Flint professor, of the update to his complaint letter. The investigation centered around possible violations of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race for higher education institutions that receive federal funding.
Read more at The College Fix.
Invasive and life-altering treatments for gender incongruence and gender dysphoria for children and young people must be characterized as “experimental” according to the latest recommendation from a Norwegian health care investigator.
Puberty delaying treatment along with hormonal and surgical gender affirmation treatments for minors require more research, “a thorough examination before treatment,” explanation of benefits, effects, possible risks, side effects, and a close follow-up, said Ukom, a health care investigator based in Norway that provides related recommendations to the Norwegian government.
Read more at The Epoch Times.
There’s a sickness at Georgia’s biggest medical school.
Out of sight of the public eye, the taxpayer-funded Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University is promoting divisive and even discriminatory ideas. Turns out, the same “Critical Race Theory” philosophy that has corrupted K-12 education and led to movements like “Defund the Police” has made its way into medical education, too.
As a black woman myself, I am raising the alarm. Every Georgian should be worried because what happens in medical schools ultimately affects all of our health.
Read more at Insider Advantage.
‘Do No Harm’ Board Chairman Dr. Stanley Goldfarb joined ‘Fox & Friends First’ to discuss his concerns surrounding the ‘politicization’ of the course and why the far-left trend is ‘dangerous’ in the medical field.
Watch at Fox News.
Students in the class are taught to be a ‘more inclusive’ healthcare professional for ‘gender diverse patients’
EXCLUSIVE: First-year students at the Indiana University School of Medicine are being subjected to woke diversity, equity and inclusion instruction as part of a basic Human Structure class, according to documents obtained by Fox News Digital.
Students in the class receive a “sex and gender primer” lesson that includes instruction on gender being a “social construct,” that sex and gender are not the same thing, and on how to be a “more inclusive” healthcare professional when it comes to “gender diverse patients.”
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In an internal email obtained by The Tennessee Star from two individuals asking for anonymity, the dean of medicine at East Tennessee State University’s Quillen College of Medicine ridiculed an article published last week highlighting how woke equity policies have infiltrated Tennessee medical schools, claiming it is a “fact” that such diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) ideology has been “repeatedly proven to improve outcomes for our patients and make[s] us better doctors.”
William Block, M.D., dean of medicine at East Tennessee State University’s Quillen College of Medicine, sent out an email, in which he defined the words “equity” as “the quality of being fair and impartial,” and “woke” as “aware of and actively attentive to important societal facts and issues (especially issues of racial and social justice).”
Read more at The Star News Network.
A measure in the Connecticut legislature would force school nurses to be trained on the tenets of critical race theory, including “systemic racism, explicit and implicit bias, micro aggressions, racial disparities, anti-blackness and experiences of transgender and gender diverse youth.”
The training is attached to training on endometriosis — an often painful disorder of the tissue that lines the uterus.
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The Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) revised or eliminated several scholarships and programs accused by medical watchdog Do No Harm Senior Fellow Mark Perry of being discriminatory after a federal probe was launched, Do No Harm reported.
Perry filed a complaint in September 2022 against eight scholarships and programs offered by the university that he claimed violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prevents race-based discrimination, and Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, which prevents discrimination based on sex, according to Do No Harm. The Department of Education (DOE) Office for Civil Rights, which investigated the matter, informed Perry Feb. 28 that the case was closed after finding “credible information indicating that the complaint has been resolved,” the letter reads.
Read more at the Daily Caller.
The study also found that CRT increased racial tension and anxiety among students
A recently published study suggests that the overwhelming majority of students in the United States have been exposed to at least one core principle of critical race theory (CRT) despite claims from many on the left that the curriculum is not taught in schools.
Researchers at the Manhattan Institute surveyed responses from more than 1,500 Americans recently out of high school ages 18 to 20, and 90% of respondents said they have heard at least one CRT concept from a teacher or adult at school, and 93% had been taught a core tenet of critical social justice (CSJ), a combination of CRT and radical gender ideology.
Read more at Fox News.
More doctors are publicly condemning the Marxist racial and gender ideological agenda into which medical school students are being trained, asserting patents’ health, and even their lives, are being sacrificed for a totalitarian political worldview.
A report published last week, for example, by Do No Harm, an organization of physicians, healthcare professionals, medical students, patients, and policymakers, revealed the pervasive infiltration of woke diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) ideologies in Tennessee medical school curricula and programs.
Read more at The Star News Network.
EXCLUSIVE — The Downstate College of Medicine at the State University of New York cited providing travel stipends for faculty to attend “minority faculty development” meetings as an example of the institution’s commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion , internal documents show.
The New York medical school included the information in its responses to the Association of American Medical Colleges’ Diversity, Inclusion, Culture, and Equity Inventory survey. The college’s responses were obtained by the medical watchdog group Do No Harm through a Freedom of Information Act request and were shared exclusively with the Washington Examiner. SUNY Downstate College of Medicine achieved a 100% diversity score in the survey.
Read more at the Washington Examiner.
A report obtained by The Tennessee Star, published by an organization of physicians, healthcare professionals, medical students, patients, and policymakers, reveals the pervasive infiltration of woke diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) ideologies in Tennessee medical school curricula and programs.
The report from Do No Harm, titled “The DEI Bureaucracy in Tennessee’s Medical Schools: Woke Ideologies Are Reshaping Medical Education in the Volunteer State,” warns of vast implications for medical students and all who receive medical care in the state of Tennessee.
Read more at The Tennessee Star.
The University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine is forcing all teaching applicants to write a “diversity statement,” showing their devotion to political ideology.
Some leading questions the medical school suggests to keep in mind when writing the one-page response are, “What does diversity mean to you, and why is this important?” or “Does your engagement with diversity help students prepare for careers in a global society?” according to the application guide.
“If you feel that you may not have a lot to write about for this one-page document, take a moment to reflect on diversity as it relates to your research topic, your teaching, and your service work,” it says. “Do you study groups or people who have been marginalized in society and have uncovered their voices as part of your research? Have you employed inclusive pedagogical techniques in your teaching to encourage students to participate in discussion?”
Read more at Breitbart.
As the Mississippi Senate considers a bill that would ban the use of pharmaceuticals and sex reassignment surgery for minors who think they are experiencing gender dysphoria, the state’s leading health coverage company has taken a firm stance against the procedures.
The Mississippi Division of Medicaid said it agreed with a report from the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration (pdf) concluding that there is a lack of conclusive evidence to support medical intervention for gender dysphoria in children and adolescents.
Read more at The Epoch Times.