Do No Harm: Inside the Fight to Get Identity Politics Out of Medicine
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Dr. Stanley Goldfarb discusses the impact of identity politics on medical education and the founding of Do No Harm.
Episode Summary Dr. Stanley Goldfarb — nephrologist, former Associate Dean for Curriculum at Penn's Perelman School of Medicine, and founder of Do No Harm — joins Drs. Koka and DiGiorgio to trace how medical education drifted from clinical science toward social activism. Goldfarb recounts the battles at Penn that led to his 2019 WSJ op-ed, the professional fallout that followed, and why he built Do No Harm into a 54,000-member organization with an active litigation strategy. The conversation covers DEI in admissions, implicit bias training, gender-affirming care in minors, nonprofit hospital tax exemption, and what it actually takes to change entrenched institutions through legislation and the courts. Chapter Markers 00:00 Introduction — Dr. Stanley Goldfarb 01:37 The 2019 Wall Street Journal op-ed 12:57 The tweet that ended his relationship with Penn and UpToDate 17:04 What 550 FOIA requests revealed about who's driving DEI in academia 21:01 Is there a case for modernizing the medical curriculum? 27:29 How students gained control of the agenda 32:10 How admissions committees began selecting for activists 36:34 The two missions of Do No Harm 47:18 Nonprofit hospital tax exemption…
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