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The University of Minnesota’s School of Public Health is using curriculum that teaches that structural racism is a public health crisis and that physicians have an obligation to be antiracist. The University of Minnesota School of Public Health’s Center For Antiracism Research For Health Equity [CAHRE], the Minnesota Department of Health, and an organization called Diversity Science […]
Doctors are experts in their craft. But that expertise doesn’t always translate to other disciplines. Newly published commentary in the Journal of the American Medical Association highlights the perils of medical mission creep and the belief that doctors can and should solve all of the world’s problems.
“Diversifying the medical pathway in a post-affirmative action world” begins with lamentation about the Supreme Court’s decision on race-based college admissions. In what has become a familiar pattern, they cherry pick a small number of studies which suggest that patients receive better care from doctors of their own race or ethnicity. In so doing, they ignore a much larger body of evidence which indicates that no such phenomenon exists.
Documents obtained by Do No Harm via Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests show the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), which has a say in whether medical schools get accredited, forwarded to medical schools guidance published by the Biden Departments of Justice (DOJ) and Education (DOE) concerning the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision holding that race-based admissions programs in higher education violate the Constitution.
Millions of academic studies are published each year. Some fundamentally alter the course of history, while others never even get cited. Those curious about the effect of specific researchers, papers, or journals often turn to a metric called “impact factor.” This metric counts the number of citations accrued by a researcher or research paper, or […]
A prominent “reverse discrimination” activist filed a federal complaint Wednesday evening against Duke’s Alice M. Baldwin Scholars program, alleging that the program for female-identifying students violates Title IX provisions. Mark Perry, an emeritus professor of economics and finance in the School of Management at the University of Michigan–Flint, has been filing federal civil rights complaints against U.S. […]
To renew our license we now have to have 2 CME hours on “implicit bias.” I have been in practice for 35 years. I treat every patient with respect and dignity. It is insulting to me that they are now telling me I have “implicit bias” because of the pigment of my skin.
Two “Underrepresented Minority Students in Medicine (URiM)” programs at the University of Nebraska College of Medicine (UNCOM) have been removed from the school’s website following the filing of a federal civil rights complaint and subsequent federal investigation.
Until the federal investigation was opened this week, the UNCOM Department of Dermatology was offering the Dr. Kristie Hayes Visiting URiM Medical Student Externship in Dermatology and the Karle Cordova Olnes UNMC Dermatology URiM Summer Medical Student Research Fellowship on its DEI Opportunities page (archived version). Both programs noted: “Preference will be given to students considered underrepresented in medicine: Black/African American, Hispanic/Latino, Native American, Pacific Islander/Native Hawaiian.”
Diversity, equity, and inclusion has insinuated itself into many aspects of people’s lives, from corporate hiring to college admissions. Over much of the past few years, diversity officers have been some of the hottest hires in business , university, and government bureaucracies. But recently, they’ve begun to feel left out in the cold. According to the Wall Street Journal , “Companies including Netflix, […]
Growing up, Dr. Ivan Abdouch had no intention of being a doctor. He wanted to be a mechanic, then explored college majors, but plans changed when his grandfather had a heart attack and was not expected to survive.
Ivan rushed to the hospital and prepared to say goodbye. He remembers the moment a doctor entered the room and saved his grandfather, who went on to live another 30 years. Ivan found his way to medical school after that, where he met another doctor who changed his life.
Peer reviewed journals are entrusted to be truthful and reliable sources of medical information. Unfortunately, they are forsaking the principles of rigor and honesty in favor of political correctness. A recent and egregious example comes by way of Academic Medicine, the flagship journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC).
In “SHARPening Residency Selection: Implementing a Systematic Holistic Application Review Process,” the authors begin with the premise that “Traditional metrics used in residency application review processes are systematically biased against applicants from minoritized communities that are underrepresented in medicine (URiM).” They use this premise to launch a screed against traditional medical school admission metrics (e.g. GPA and MCAT scores) and in favor of a “holistic” admissions process.
Does California ever get its fill of massive spending on woke health equity projects? Apparently not, according to the hundreds of millions of dollars the state is pouring into efforts to alter the way healthcare is delivered in medical practices.
The California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS), the self-proclaimed “backbone of California’s health care safety net,” is dedicating $700 million to a “practice transformation program” for primary care providers (PCP). Called the Equity and Practice Transformation (EPT) Payments Program, the goal is to promote health equity, align with the DHCS Comprehensive Quality Strategy and Equity Roadmap, and provide funding for PCPs whose practices serve Medi-Cal patients.
The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has opened a federal civil rights investigation against Wayne State University for a scholarship that illegally discriminates on the basis of both race and sex. This marks the 35th instance to date that a civil rights complaint filed by Do No Harm has resulted in a federal investigation.
Good news from Indiana. At its September meeting, the Indiana State Medical Association largely sided with common sense, medical ethics, and equal treatment over divisive ideology. As the primary representative of the state’s medical professionals, ISMA deserves credit for tackling tough issues and generally doing the right thing.
The University of Minnesota (UMN) paid over $200,000 to develop a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) training program that teaches medical professionals that healthcare is fundamentally racist, according to documents received by the medical watchdog Do No Harm and shared with the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Gender affirmation will become a factor in California child custody cases if Gov. Gavin Newsom signs new legislation into law. If the bill, AB-957, is signed into law, a parent who disagrees with their child seeking social transitioning or gender transition procedures could lose custody of the child and face child abuse charges. Read more at […]
Study: Policy changes needed to ‘dismantle structural racism’ Capitalism, “white supremacy,” and “structural racism” are to blame for the high rate of black maternal health problems in the U.S., according to a new study out of Harvard University. The study, “A conceptual understanding of the impact of interconnected forms of racism on maternal hypertension through Black […]
California’s legislature has taken major steps to institutionalize hiding child transgender identity from parents in a slate of bills headed to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (D-CA) desk. One or both houses of the Golden State legislature have overwhelmingly passed five separate bills aimed at both hiding childhood proclamations of transgender identity from parents and punishing them for not “affirming” the child […]
The radicalism of the transgender movement is boundless. Look no further than California, where Gov. Gavin Newsom may soon sign a bill that would take children away from parents who disagree with their child’s chosen gender identity. The message is clear: Support your child’s sex change, or lose your child.