REVIEW: ‘Doing Great Harm? How DEI and Identity Politics Are Infecting American Healthcare―and How We Are Fighting Back’ by Stanley Goldfarb

The Ohio State University College of Medicine instructs students and faculty not to ask black colleagues “How are you doing?” It’s not an appropriate question, the college explained, because “Black People (and all People of Color) … experience racism every day.”

At the University of Minnesota Medical School, new students “are forced to recite” a pledge “to honor all indigenous ways of healing that have been traditionally marginalized by western medicine.” They also must declare that they “recognize inequities built by past and present traumas rooted in white supremacy, colonialism, the gender binary, ableism, and all forms of oppression.”

These are just a few of the many examples mentioned by Dr. Stanley Goldfarb in his new book Doing Great Harm? in service of his argument that “Medical schools increasingly are preparing physicians for social activism at the expense of medical science.”

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