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2039

A Note of Caution from a Medical School Applicant

We recently received this message from a prospective medical school applicant. We are keeping the applicant’s identity anonymous. I just wrapped up my primary AMCAS and a handful of secondary medical school applications. I decided to “fight back” by not including my racial identity in my primary application. This fight was short-lived because many of the […]

2040

Pfizer sued for excluding White, Asian candidates from fellowship

A health care advocacy group has sued Pfizer in federal court, alleging the pharmaceutical giant violated the Civil Rights Act by excluding Whites and Asians from a racial equity fellowship. Do No Harm filed the lawsuit Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. It claims the New York-based company’s Breakthrough Fellowship […]

2043

Open Letter to Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo of JAMA

Dear Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, Congratulations on your appointment as editor-in-chief of the Journal of the American Medical Association!  You now hold one of the most prestigious positions in the elite world of health publications. Medical researchers, professionals, and policymakers now look to you for leadership, and it is incumbent on you to set the highest standards […]

2044

Pfizer Hit With Lawsuit Over Fellowship That Excludes Whites and Asians

Pfizer is being sued for excluding whites and Asians from its prestigious “Breakthrough Fellowship,” a nine-year program that includes a fully funded master’s degree and guaranteed employment with the pharmaceutical giant. The lawsuit, filed on Thursday by the medical advocacy group Do No Harm, says that the program’s exclusionary criteria violate five different civil rights laws: […]

2045

Antiracism effort in health care could itself lead to bias

Everyone involved in health care can agree on two truths: First, many minority populations have unequal access to care. Second, as a result, they often have disparate health outcomes. Yet acknowledging these truths does not lead to LaShyra Nolen’s conclusion that health care must be “antiracist” (“Woke medicine doesn’t mean worse medicine,” Ideas, Sept. 11). […]

2046

Lawsuit claims Pfizer fellowship discriminates against whites and Asians

A national association of medical professionals has filed a lawsuit against pharmaceutical giant Pfizer , alleging that the company runs a fellowship that illegally excludes white and Asian American applicants. Do No Harm claimed that Pfizer’s Breakthrough Fellowship Program violates several state and federal laws as it is racially discriminatory and requires that applicants meet its stated aim […]

2048

Pfizer Sued for Discriminating against White, Asian Fellowship Applicants

Do No Harm, a nonprofit whose mission is to “protect health care from a radical, divisive, and discriminatory ideology,” recently sued Pfizer, arguing that the pharmaceutical giant’s “Breakthrough Fellowship Program” illegally discriminates by race. Pfizer describes the fellowship on its website as “a nine-year commitment to increase minority representation at Pfizer, designed to enhance our pipeline of […]