Medical watchdog unveils model law for states to protect children from transgender procedures

The medical watchdog organization Do No Harm has unveiled a model legislation designed to stop minors from undergoing sex-change procedures , including taking cross-sex hormones and puberty blockers.

The model bill, the Justice for Adolescent and Child Transitioners Act, bans minors from receiving cross-sex hormones, puberty blockers, or gender-reassignment surgeries while also creating a recourse for legal damages for minors who are subjected to such procedures.

Read more at The Washington Examiner

University of Kansas medical school reveals lobbying for diversity initiatives in ‘wokeness’ inventory

EXCLUSIVE — The University of Kansas Medical Center lobbies federal, state, and local governments to adopt more diversity, equity, and inclusion policies, according to responses from a survey the school filled out for the Association of American Medical Colleges .

The Kansas medical school’s responses to the AAMC’s Diversity, Inclusion, Culture, and Equity Inventory survey were obtained by the medical watchdog group Do No Harm through a Freedom of Information Act request and shared exclusively with the Washington Examiner. The survey results showed the school aligned with 71% of the AAMC’s diversity, equity, and inclusion goals.

Read more at The Washington Examiner.

Florida medical schools consider race during admission process, documents reveal

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (TND) — Documents shared exclusively with The National Desk (TND) by a medical watchdog group show the University of Florida College of Medicine considers race and ethnicity when making admissions decisions.

According to Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, board chairman of the medical association Do No Harm, the liberal shift across the country’s medical colleges is impacting the standards by which potential doctors are selected and therefore will, in time, impact patient’s medical care.

Upon learning of an assessment from the the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), which surveyed over 100 publicly funded medical universities regarding their commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), Do No Harm sent formal document requests to several publicly funded medical universities, including the University of Florida, to obtain their responses.

Read more at The National Desk.

Implicit Bias, Microaggressions Part of Diversity Training at Lubbock Hospital

Covenant Medical Center in Lubbock is having its staff take implicit bias training, but whether it helps with patient care is debatable.

Diversity training is growing in popularity among corporate institutions and even some of the most conservative areas of Texas are not exempt.

Recently Covenant Medical Center in Lubbock implemented a new bias training program for its staff. It is uncertain whether Covenant is requiring the training as a condition of employment.

Do No Harm, a group whose mission is to “[p]rotect healthcare from a radical, divisive, and discriminatory ideology,” received screenshots of the training from a hospital employee. The employee did not wish to be identified for fear of retribution by the hospital.

Read more at The Texan.

How woke broke medicine: public support for doctors has plunged by double digits, driven by conservative ire over trans surgery on kids, masks, and cringeworthy oaths

  • Doctors, nurses and pharmacists have seen approval ratings nosedive 
  • Physicians saw a 15-point drop from the start of the pandemic until now  
  • It coincides with a rapid, progressive reshaping of the sector, experts warn

Public support for doctors and nurses has tanked in recent years, especially among conservatives, as the sector has been bashed for wokery in everything from masking to doling out puberty blockers to kids.

The share of Americans who rate doctors’ ethical standards highly has dropped from 77 percent at the start of the pandemic in 2020 to 62 percent at the end of 2022 — an unusually steep 15-point fall over two years, says Gallup.

Nurses — and even pharmacists — have also seen their approval ratings nosedive. They’re all still far ahead of other professions, such as lawyers, bankers, and accountants, but the decline is stark and worrying.

Read more at The Daily Mail.

Lawsuit Challenges Federally Funded Fellowship That Discriminates

The Supreme Court’s review this term of the role of race in higher education should have implications far beyond college admissions. More and more government-funded organizations use racial classifications in their programs. Take, for example, a mentoring program started by Health Affairs, the highly prestigious, peer-reviewed healthcare journal. The journal’s publisher, Project HOPE, receives millions of dollars in federal funds every year from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the USAID, and the Department of State. In 2021, the two groups launched the Health Equity Fellowship for Trainees (HEFT) “to advance racial equity in health policy and health services scholarly publishing.” Racial equality is of course both a moral and a legal imperative. The term “equity,” however, which increasingly displaces “equality” nowadays, is sometimes construed as a license to discriminate. This is one example: acceptance into HEFT is limited to minority applicants.

Read more at the National Review.

Loyola University med school probed for alleged race-based internship that requires applicant photos

The Department of Education confirmed an investigation into the program

A prominent Chicago medical school is under investigation for slapping racial limits on an internship program – and forcing applicants to submit a photo of themselves.

The Department of Surgery at Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine violated federal civil rights laws with the eligibility requirements for the internship that limits membership to people of color, a complaint by the group Do Not Harm claims.

Read more at Fox News.

University Requires Photos Of Applicants For ‘Diversity In Surgery’ Internship

The United States Department of Education (DOE) will investigate a race-based internship program at a Chicago medical school which requires applicants to submit a photo of themselves, according to medical watchdog group Do No Harm.

The Loyola University Chicago (LUC) Stritch School of Medicine Department of Surgery offers a sub-internship program for students who are “African American/Black, Hispanic/Latinx, American Indian/Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander,” according to its website. Do No Harm program manager Laura Morgan filed a complaint with the DOE in August 2022 alleging the program violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits race-based discrimination.

Read more at The Daily Caller.

Group calls required racial bias training in Illinois insulting to health care workers

(The Center Square) – A requirement for dozens of health-care professions in Illinois to complete bias awareness training as a condition of licensure is being criticized by a medical watchdog group.  

As of Jan. 1, 2023, individuals in 38 health care professions in Illinois are now required to take racial bias training. The Illinois Administrative Code states that implicit bias occurs automatically and unintentionally, but affects behaviors, judgements and decisions. 

Read more at The Center Square.

IU med school diversity program under investigation for allegedly excluding white students

School is pursuing a ‘diversity agenda’ over ‘medical education based on merit and academic excellence,’ according to professor who filed the complaint

An elective program at the Indiana University School of Medicine is under federal investigation for discrimination based on color, race and sex after a senior fellow with a nonprofit opposed to progressive ideology in med schools filed a civil rights complaint against it.

Applicants to the “Underrepresented in Medicine Visiting Elective Program” must identify as “Black/African American, Hispanic/Latinx, LGBTQ+” to qualify, according to its website.

Read more at The College Fix.

Former Medical Educator Criticizes Harvard’s Withdrawal From College Ranking System

Harvard Medical School left the U.S. News and World Report’s school ranking system

A former medical educator has criticized Harvard Medical School’s withdrawal from the U.S. News and World Report’s school ranking system, stating that the college is sacrificing merit for diversity.

“The U.S. News and World Report’s magazine ranking system for medical schools has long presented a problem for prestigious institutions like Harvard and Penn, where I used to teach,” Dr. Stanley Goldfarb told The Epoch Times.

Goldfarb is a former associate dean for curriculum at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He’s now chairman of the medical watchdog group Do No Harm and is the author of the April 2022 book, “Take Two Aspirin and Call Me by My Pronouns: Why Turning Doctors Into Social Justice Warriors Is Destroying American Medicine,” which follows how medical schools hurried to adopt diversity, equity, and inclusion requirements in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd in 2020.

Read more at The Epoch Times.

‘Absurd’: Harvard med course teaches students about LGBTQ+ infants

A course being offered at Harvard Medical School claims that there are infants within the LGBTQ+ community.

‘Clinical exposure and education will focus on serving gender and sexual minority people across the lifespan, from infants to older adults,’ the course description reads.

A course being offered at Harvard Medical School claims that there are infants within the LGBTQ+ community. 

Read more at Campus Reform.

US ‘Most Permissive’ for Children’s Gender Transition While Europe Pulls Back, Study Shows

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The United States is the “most permissive country” for legal and medical gender transition of children, according to a new study.

The report, released on Monday by Do No Harm, a group that seeks to insulate the health care profession from “radical, diverse, and discriminatory ideology,” compared the United States with 11 Northern and Western European countries on metrics including legal requirements to change gender; provisions for medical transition; the minimum age for puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones; and the number of youth gender clinics.

“In a sharp departure from the gender affirmation model employed in the United States, these countries now discourage automatic deference to a child’s self-declarations on the grounds that the risks outweigh the benefits, while also calling for months-long psychotherapy sessions to address co-occurring mental health problems,” the report states. “Notably, in the United Kingdom, the Cass Review attributed the lack of safeguards for children at the largest pediatric gender center to the ‘affirmative model,’ which ‘originated in the USA.’”

Read more at The Epoch Times.

Texas A&M med school removes photos of white male alumni to show commitment to diversity

Medical school also reportedly practices ‘holistic admissions,’ ‘reviews salaries for ‘diversity’ 

The College of Medicine at Texas A&M University removed prominently placed photos of white male alumni to show its commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion, it stated in a recent survey.

The institution completed the survey for the Association of American Medical Colleges last year, which the organization used for its Diversity, Inclusion, Culture and Equity Inventory, according to the Washington Examiner, which reviewed the documents and reported on them Monday.

Do No Harm, a nonprofit of medical professionals opposing social justice ideology in medicine, obtained the responses through a Freedom of Information Act and shared them with the Examiner, the news outlet stated.

Read more at The College Fix.

Virginia Commonwealth University requires personal ‘diversity statements’ for faculty, documents show

The faculty hiring process at Virginia Commonwealth University and its medical school requires applicants to provide a statement of commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion that is factored into their application, new documents show.

In a series of survey questions by the Association of American Medical Colleges that sought to discern the commitment by various medical schools to diversity, equity, and inclusion, or DEI, the VCU School of Medicine said it required faculty applicants to submit a “diversity statement.” The school’s responses to the AAMC survey were obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request by the medical watchdog group Do No Harm and shared with the Washington Examiner.

Read more at the Washington Examiner.

‘Structural racism’ study pays black diabetics money to get healthier

The College Fix contacted Dr. Campbell for comment but received no response.

The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases provided further information in response to a Fix inquiry.

“One of NIDDK’s strategic scientific goals is to advance the understanding of biological pathways and environmental contributors to health and disease,” NIDDK Public Liaison Alyssa Voss told The Fix on Jan. 11.

Read more at The College Fix.

Texas Tech medical school touted ‘affirmative action plan’ to score diversity recognition

The medical school at Texas Tech University repeatedly touted its affirmative action plan in a survey for the Association of American Medical Colleges on its commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion , new documents show.

The responses contributed to the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center’s 84% score on the AAMC’s Diversity, Inclusion, Culture, and Equity Inventory survey, indicating “substantial diversity, inclusion, culture, and equity efforts.” The school’s responses to the survey were obtained by the medical watchdog group Do No Harm through a Freedom of Information Act request and exclusively shared with the Washington Examiner.

The school informed the AAMC in the survey that the institution’s office of equal opportunity annually presented the university presidential Cabinet with the school’s affirmative action plan. The school also said it had recently created a new position of vice president of diversity, equity, and inclusion that had been “tasked with developing a university wide action plan that outlines a specific set of achievable goals that will advance diversity, equity and inclusion.”

Read more at the Washington Examiner.

‘Denial Of Merit’: Harvard Medical School Withdraws From US News Ranking

Harvard Medical School announced Tuesday it had withdrawn from the U.S. News & World Report medical school rankings due to “philosophical” concerns.

The medical school will no longer send information to U.S. News & World Reportto be considered for its list of top-ranked medical schools in the United States, according to the announcement by Dr. George Q. Daley, dean of the faculty of medicine at Harvard, sent to the Daily Caller News Foundation. Critics have opposed the methodology of the rankings, which consider factors including peer assessments, residency directors assessments, test scores, acceptance rate and student grade point averages; however Daley said that his concerns with the system were philosophical.

Read more at The Daily Caller.