Amid Tech Layoffs, Executives Weigh Suddenly Controversial Diversity Initiatives

The drama and division that afflicted school boards this past year may be coming to medical schools next – as the medical school rating outfit battles with dissident professors and activist groups over diversity and inclusion initiatives.

As corporate executives consider hiring freezes and layoffs – even at tech giants like Amazon, which announced its first layoffs in more than a decade this week, and Facebook, whose parent company Meta announced layoffs of 11,000 tech workers – typically marketing, HR, and diversity workers are targeted first. Given the political battles raging at public high schools and colleges and now medical schools, executives might want to weigh more carefully whether it is prudent to trim “soft” jobs that are disproportionately held by women and minorities.

Read more at Forbes.com.

Nurse Fired for Opposing ‘Implicit Bias’ Training Now Fighting Divisive Ideology in Health Care

Laura Morgan has complied with annual training requirements in the medical field for years, from privacy protocols and compliance regulations to ethics guidelines. But when one session asked her to acknowledge her “racial, unconscious bias,” she had to dissent.

“The whole premise is that I must look at patients through a racial instead of a clinical lens,” Morgan told The Epoch Times.

Her implicit bias training at Baylor Scott & White Health in Texas asked her to challenge a bias that she and all others who attended were assumed to have within them.

“We do not think about ourselves as being racist or ageist or biased against others,” said one of the slides in the presentation (pdf). “But what about the biases we are not aware of?”

Read more at The Epoch Times.

First, Do No Harm: Fighting For Patients And Against Politicization Of Health Care

Physician, former Member of Congress, and IWF board member Nan Hayworth talks with Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, former Associate Dean for Curriculum at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, about the experiences with “woke” politicization of academic medicine that inspired him to found Do No Harm.

Race Medicine: American Medical Establishment Touts Social Justice Overhaul

A report done by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) — the leading organization for medical schools, teaching hospitals, and scientific studies — shows the expansion of race-based ideology in the practice of medicine.

The report, titled “The Power of Collective Action: Assessing and Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Efforts at AAMC Medical Schools,” outlined self-audits from schools regarding the level to which they were pushing the political agenda into aspects of their functions.

Read more at Breitbart.com.

Oklahoma Colleges Accused of Civil Rights Violation

A civil rights complaint filed recently accuses 12 Oklahoma colleges of illegally discriminating against students based on race and national origin. The complaint was filed by Mark Perry, professor emeritus at the University of Michigan and senior fellow with Do No Harm, a conservative group of medical professionals, the Oklahoma City Sentinel reported.

The lawsuit alleges that the Oklahoma Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation, a program offered at the colleges and focused on increasing the number of underrepresented students earning degrees in science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM fields, discriminates against students based on race and national origin.

Read more at Inside Higher Ed.

Civil-Rights complaint filed over Oklahoma Colleges’ discrimination

A newly filed federal civil-rights complaint accuses 12 Oklahoma colleges of illegally discriminating against students based on race and national origin via a program that specifically excludes students based on those traits.

“Oklahoma’s institutions of higher education shouldn’t be complicit in advertising and sponsoring academic programs that discriminate on the basis of race,” said Laura Morgan, a registered nurse who is program manager for Do No Harm, a group of medical professionals.

Read more at the Oklahoma Sentinel.

Civil-Rights Complaint Filed Over Oklahoma Colleges’ Discrimination

A newly filed federal civil-rights complaint accuses 12 Oklahoma colleges of illegally discriminating against students based on race and national origin via a program that specifically excludes students based on those traits.

“Oklahoma’s institutions of higher education shouldn’t be complicit in advertising and sponsoring academic programs that discriminate on the basis of race,” said Laura Morgan, a registered nurse who is program manager for Do No Harm, a group of medical professionals. “Twelve Oklahoma universities are participating in the Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP) program, supported by the National Science Foundation, (which) requires that applicants ‘must identify as an underrepresented minority.’ Specifically, eligible applicants are restricted to ‘African American, Hispanic, Native American, Native Hawaiian, or Pacific Islander.’ Because this is a violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, we’ve filed a federal complaint with the Office for Civil Rights. Great medicine has no room for racism or discrimination of any kind, and certainly not in the medical education programs.”

Read more at OCPAthink.com.

Watchdog Report Spotlights Rise of Discriminatory Social Justice Ideologies in NC Medical School

Despite Martin Luther King’s dream that people be treated based on the content of their character rather than the color of their skin, a group of health care professionals have experienced discriminatory indoctrination sessions at a North Carolina medical school that they say violate the Civil Rights Act.

Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, board chair of the non-profit watchdog organization Do No Harm (DNH), told The Epoch Times that the goal of DNH is to fight against the woke ideologies that are cropping up in health care and draining resources from the practice of medicine.

Read more at The Epoch Times.

Group finds ‘anti-racist’ training in North Carolina nursing schools, medical centers

RALEIGH — Records obtained by a group of healthcare students and medical professionals have uncovered what it describes as radical and divisive racial justice training in North Carolina. 

The group Do No Harm (DNH) shared the findings of a public records requests with North State Journal. Do No Harm describes itself as “a diverse group of physicians, healthcare professionals, medical students, patients, and policymakers united by a moral mission: Protect healthcare from a radical, divisive, and discriminatory ideology.” 

Read more at North State Journal.

Tucker Carlson Mentions Do No Harm Senior Fellow Mark Perry On-Air

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Tucker Carlson mentioned Do No Harm Senior Fellow Mark Perry on November 1 during his opening segment available here.

Carlson cited Perry’s findings from his 2017 blog post.

Interestingly, but not surprising, the AAMC stopped reporting the detailed data for medical school acceptance rates by MCAT, GPA and Race/Ethnicity shortly after Mark Perry started reporting it.

Exclusive: New Report Accuses UNC Medical School of Putting Politics Before Patients

The University of North Carolina School of Medicine is putting politics before patients by forcing applicants, students, and professors to constantly prove their commitment to the tenets of diversity, equity, and inclusion as a prerequisite to advancement, rather than basing such decisions on merit alone, according to a new report from the nonprofit Do No Harm obtained exclusively by National Review.

The report from Do No Harm, a nonprofit founded to push back against the ascendant racial-equity agenda in medicine, comes just days after oral arguments in a case putting the UNC’s race-conscious undergraduate admissions system on trial. Do No Harm notes that the School of Medicine (SOM) also lists diversity — to include, race, gender identity, sexual orientation, and more — as an element to be considered in its own admissions and hiring process.

Read more at the National Review.

Meet the Left-Wing Health Group Citing the Boy Scouts of America To Justify Excluding Whites From a Prestigious Fellowship

In 1990, the Boy Scouts of America fired James Dale, a gay rights activist and assistant scoutmaster, after he came out out of the closet, citing the group’s longstanding opposition to homosexuality. Dale sued the Scouts under New Jersey’s civil rights law, which banned discrimination based on sexual orientation. But when the Supreme Court heard the case, Boy Scouts of America v. Dale, in 2000, it ruled that the Scouts had a First Amendment right to discriminate.

In a 5-4 opinion that has never been overturned, Chief Justice William Rehnquist drew a link between exclusion and free expression. The Scouts had a viewpoint—homosexual conduct is wrong—that they were trying to impart to their members, he said; an openly gay scoutmaster would send the opposite message, which meant forcing the group to rehire Dale would violate its freedom of speech.

Read more at the Washington Free Beacon.

Florida Bans Sterilization, Mutilation of ‘Transgender’ Children

The Florida Board of Medicine voted Friday to ban the practices of sterilizing and mutilating children in the name of “gender-affirming care.”

Such procedures have become extremely controversial as the public became aware that they were happening to children and learned the lengths American doctors will go to create lifelong patients and, therefore, streams of income.

The Board said their decision was based on the irreversibility of drugs and treatments (something doctors have been lying about for years) and the growing number of de-transitioners. The decision will apply to all children in the state, including those who are currently undergoing the treatments.

Read more at Breitbart.com.

Florida Votes To Ban Sex Change Procedures For Minors After Volatile Testimony

The Florida Board of Medicine has voted to ban sex change surgeries and hormone therapy for children under the age of 18 after hours of deliberation and testimony Friday.

The guidelines, first released April 20, 2022, state that anyone under 18 cannot receive hormone therapy or puberty blockers. It also bans “gender reassignment” surgery for children and adolescents. The Florida Medical Board released the guidance in response to guidance from the US Department of Health and Human Services endorsed sex change procedures for teens.

Read more at The Daily Caller.

AG Schmitt warned DOJ against criminalizing child gender reassignment dissent

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Missouri Attorney General (AG) Eric Schmitt is among the 13 Republican state attorneys general who warned U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland last week against criminalizing critics of gender reassignment surgeries.

Schmitt, Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti, and others delivered a letter in response to Oct. 3 correspondence from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), American Medical Association (AMA), and the Children’s Hospital Association (CHA) urging Garland “to investigate and prosecute people who question the medical establishment’s current treatment of children struggling with gender dysphoria.”

Read more at the St. Louis Record.

Former AG Loretta Lynch Defending Pfizer in Lawsuit over Minority-Only Fellowship Program

Former attorney general Loretta Lynch has entered the fray in a racial-discrimination lawsuit in defense of pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, according to a court filing obtained by National Review.

Do No Harm, a nonprofit with the aim of protecting the medical field from the “radical, divisive, and discriminatory ideology” of anti-racism, filed suit against Pfizer in September on behalf of two of its members, alleging that the company is practicing illegal discrimination by limiting one of its fellowship programs to racial minority groups.

Read more at the National Review.

Minnesota Medical Students Swear Oath to Fight ‘White Supremacy,’ ‘Honor All Indigenous Ways of Healing’

Medical students at the University of Minnesota pledged to “honor all indigenous ways of healing historically marginalized by Western medicine” and fight “white supremacy, colonialism, gender binary, ableism and all forms of oppression.”

The move has many questioning whether the university is embracing shamanism as equally legitimate to Western science.

In a video from the white coat ceremony, which was led by associate dean for undergraduate education Dr. Robert Englander, students are seen reciting a pledge that has them “commit to uprooting the legacy and perpetuation of structural violence deeply embedded within the health care system.”

Read more at Breitbart.com.

GOP AGs Warn Garland to Back Off Prosecuting Child Transition Surgery Critics

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A group of thirteen state attorneys general warned Attorney General Merrick Garland against investigating critics of child gender transition surgeries.

Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti is leading the effort, demanding that Garland “stand down” on acting on the requests of several medical organizations to investigate “disinformation campaigns” about child gender transitions.

Read more at PJ Media.com.