Do No Harm President Dr. Stanley Goldfarb believes diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in the healthcare industry “poisons the American experience” because everyone is treated differently based on their appearance.
“DEI in healthcare turns out to be a real problem. It's quite dangerous,” Goldfarb told Fox News Digital.
In 2022, Goldfarb founded Do No Harm, a nonprofit organization dedicated to fighting “radical progressive ideology” in the healthcare industry. He believes that when DEI considers people based on their group characteristics, it is essentially identity politics, which does not belong in the medical world.
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Do No Harm President Dr. Stanley Goldfarb believes diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in the healthcare industry “poisons the American experience” because everyone is treated differently based on their appearance. (iStock)
“If a patient comes to the office and we see him… DEI is telling us that we should think of that patient, not as an individual, not as a human being with his own problems, but as, for example, a black person who suffers from this disease,” Goldfarb continued. “It really requires that we treat that person differently because of these racial characteristics, rather than treating them as an individual based on what their individual problems really are.”
Goldfarb, former associate dean of curriculum at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, hopes to raise awareness about what is happening on medical school campuses and in doctors' offices across the country.
“The real problem that minority groups have is that their health outcomes are poor compared to whites. And all of us who work in medicine are concerned about that,” he said.
“The DEI says the reason for this is that white doctors, particularly white male doctors, treat patients poorly because they are black, rather than really trying to understand the basis of why these disparities in health care exist, which turns out to be because people don't have adequate health care,” Goldfarb continued. “They don't show their first symptoms, they wait until the course of the disease is advanced, and their outcomes are much worse. And this is true over and over again for a wide variety of diseases.”
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Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives in healthcare are “pretty dangerous,” says Dr. Stanley Goldfarb. (iStock)
Goldfarb said DEI in healthcare not only compromises care but also creates division.
“Once there is division, patients start to lose trust in their doctors. If they are told that their doctors have been discriminating against them, then obviously they are not going to trust them. They are not going to follow their recommendations.” “And their outcomes are going to be even worse. So it undermines the quality of health care and also, in some ways, poisons the American experience, which should be treating everyone equally, regardless of what they look like,” he said. . .
Goldfarb is also alarmed that DEI is affecting how people are hired in medicine and faculty promotions at medical schools.
“There is a great desire to create this increasingly diverse medical workforce. Now, I have nothing against diversity. Diversity is fine as long as quality is not sacrificed in the name of diversity. And unfortunately, that is what happens in medical school applications,” Goldfarb said.
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He said there are about 22,000 openings in medical schools each year, but about 44,000 applicants compete for those spots.
“So if someone is chosen because of their skin color, another person who is more academically qualified may not be chosen simply because the other person has the so-called correct skin color. And this is obviously a problem, because if this continues year after year year, there will be more and more less qualified people entering health care and the more qualified people will not have that opportunity,” Goldfarb said.
Do No Harm is determined to force change, and Goldfarb testified last week at a House Education and Workforce Committee hearing titled “Divisive, Excessive, Ineffective: The Real Impact of DEI on College Campuses.”
“We want to see a change. And that particular change I want to see is for medical school admissions policy to focus on people with the highest quality academic achievements. So that the public gets the best of American health care “They need the best doctors. And the only way for that to happen is if we don't sacrifice merit based on diversity,” Goldfarb said.
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