Do No Harm - A Physician’s Journey to Combat The Risk of Radical Politics in American Healthcare

Presented 3/30/2023.
Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, Board Chair of Do No Harm, is a board-certified kidney specialist, and former Professor and Associate Dean for Curriculum at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He has been widely published in medical journals, as well as The Wall Street Journal.
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Do No Harm Website: donoharmmedicine.org/

[@dadominate]

This is an outstanding organization. I am on faculty at a top tier medical school in the United States and I have been shocked and appalled by how political the environment has become (BLM banners across the campus, constant woke emails to the entire university community, special programs for every race, gender, and sexual orientation aside from straight, white, males, etc.) and how this has seeped into the education itself. I am deeply concerned for the future of medicine as leftist politics have been prioritized over medical knowledge.

[@my_channel_44]

That's why I never got into institutional, approved, accredited etc. It's all corrupt. Wrong mindset, wrong approach.

[@transcend3145]

Health agencies must not have regulatory powers, Neither any other agency of govt or world organizations. Health is a concern of individuals and that's where it should belong. Health agencies & govt could only provide information, not mandates & lockdowns!

[@marieburns118]

I totally agree with every word you say. People pay attention.

[@YouGotPropofol]

Woke policy is voted for and enforced by whites females.

[@Standing.W.Israel]

Medicine across the board has become completely anti-patient. I've been without a doctor for almost 2 years now after having pain management for 10 years and psychiatrist for 20 and because they were hounded by DEA for no reason, I was suddenly dropped and left completely on my own. It's only by the grace of God that I haven't taken the "out" that many other patients like myself have felt was their only option, but what I have had to do to survive is itself worrisome. The amount of gaslighting and just downright contempt I've been shown has caused serious PTSD and the thought of something happening where I'm not conscious but get taken to a hospital just makes me sick to my stomach.

[@alexk48]

Maybe the only way to solve this problem is to have POC woke states and non POC meritocracy states. The former can continue with quota systems and equity while the latter can operate on merit and equal opportunity. We can see which flourishes and which thrives.

[@marieburns118]

Bollocks to that

[@user-he5dg1sb3x]

If there is any field that should be used to rolling with the punches and learning to adapt to changes in the times and science, it’s the medical field. I’m not sure “wokeness” is such a bad thing or why it has become so terrifying to a generation of aging physicians. Acknowledging social determinants of health in curriculum today plays a vast role in helping patients get the resources they need to improve their lives and health. Obviously, we cannot usher change into every life, but if you are not going to pay attention to their living situations, access to services, etc., then are you truly getting to the root of their problems, or are you just putting a bandaid on a symptom and further contributing to this money machine system that doesn’t really care about the patient? Every generation has had some form of “woke” anyway. People are becoming more vocal and not hiding behind societal norms anymore, and “doing no harm” nowadays is acknowledging people for who they are and not trying to change how we address their medical care. That therein lies the ethical dilemma of whether you are truly doing good by your patients by attempting to stiff-arm the new ways of thinking out with archaic ideas that are starting to crumble away from the basis of patient interactions.

[@lamedvav]

You sound like ChatGPT. Are you AI???

[@alexk48]

The problem with "woke" medicine is that it hurts the very people it purports to serve. It is not based in science. "Woke" is the opposite of treating people as individuals. It categorizes everyone into identity groups defined by the privileged. Medicine has become assembly line medicine which looks at no one as an individual patient and applies guidelines as though they are written in stone. Just look at your dismal results in spite of increasing patient expense. It is young healthcare staff who want to deny admission + care to " non compliant" citizens. Just look at how they continue to spout the party line in spite of excess deaths. In short, "Woke" is the ideology of extreme Nazism and communism. That's the problem with Woke. It results in young brainwashed incompetent people running medicine.

[@condewit93]

@@lamedvavagree!!

[@ktex4873]

Clearly you didn't listen to his presentation very carefully. He very specifically explained that he and colleagues have thoroughly discussed the roots of issue. He even pointed out that the woke and dei agenda is WORSENING health outcomes in black communities. I suggest you rewatch and take notes on his claims and then research on your own, on NON- FUNDED SITES (no big non profit, no universities, no ngo or government sponsored sites).

[@Standing.W.Israel]

It's the Marxist ideology behind it. It ISNT science. That response comes from medical people who laugh at patients who are in agony from post-op pain but are only given Tylenol but beg for relief... again, NOT SCIENCE.