UPenn professor says new ‘anti-racism’ policies ‘lowering standards and corrupting medicine’

A professor at the University of Pennsylvania has condemned recent racial equality moves in health care as they prevent white and Asian students from being admitted to medical school.

dr. Stanley Goldfarb, 78, professor emeritus of the university’s medical school, told the… New York Post that a ‘focus on diversity’ has become detrimental to medical education.

“I understand we need to give people more opportunities,” Goldfarb said. “But there are things you can’t sacrifice.

“This focus on diversity means we’re going to hire someone of a certain skin color because we think they’re okay, they can do the job, but we’re not looking for the best and brightest.

“We’re going to look for people who are just OK to make sure we have the right mix of ethnicities in our medical schools.”

A medical school spokesperson said Goldfarb’s statements do not represent “core values” that are representative of the school.

The school has since responded to Goldfarb’s views, stating that they do not represent the school’s “core values”

Goldfarb shares his time at the school as president of Do No Harm, an organization that says it wants to “remove the same radical movement behind critical race theory in the classroom and Defund the Police in health care”

To complement his public statements, Goldfarb also chairs Do No Harm, an organization that says it wants to “remove the same radical movement behind critical race theory in the classroom and Defund the Police in health care.”

The organization’s website says it is committed to protecting doctors, patients and healthcare as a whole from “discriminatory, divisive ideologies.”

He recently wrote a new book, released in March, entitled “Take Two Aspirin and Call Me by My Pronouns: Why Turning Doctors into Social Justice Warriors Is Destroying American Medicine.”

In response to Goldfarb’s public comments, the school’s president, Dr. Michael Parmacek, Goldfarb called “racist” in communications with school staff, according to The Post.

Goldfarb said he welcomed the arrival of senior vice dean Dr. Suzanne Rose blames the school’s commitment to diversity in 2018.

“We had very stable leadership for quite some time and resisted the way some other medical schools went, but she brought in this new ideology,” Goldfarb said.

“She wanted to join what the American Medical Association was doing in education, which was promoting awakened ideas, and there was a phrase she told me that has stayed with me forever.

“She said we have too much science in the curriculum — which meant doctors should be more akin to social workers in their activities, especially GPs, rather than learning hard science related to patient care.”

dr. Ashley Denmark (pictured), 38, started a petition in early 2022 for Goldfarb’s removal from medical school

Denmark started Project Diversify Medicine, an organization that aims to help minorities get medical education

In 2020, the American Medical Association (AMA) and the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) said systemic racism was at the root of the differences between white and black patients.

Then, in 2021, they announced a three-year plan to “aggressively push forward” policies to encourage people of color to enter the medical profession.

This prevents other students from accessing medical school, Goldfarb said.

“It’s many times harder for a white medical student with average grades to get into medical school, maybe 30 or 40 times harder than a minority student with the same grades,” he continued.

dr. Ashley Denmark, founder of Project Diversify Medicine, started a petition in early 2022 to demand the removal of Goldfarb from the school.

Denmark, 38, started Project Diversify Medicine to help minorities get medical education.

“Goldfarb represents the privilege that many white male doctors enjoy, which is the ability to express themselves freely without resorting,” Denmark said.

“Doctors like me don’t get the support that a white doctor like Goldfarb gets. Racism ends in a funeral for many black and brown patients. We just want more doctors who are like our community.”

“Goldfarb represents the privilege many white male doctors enjoy, which is the ability to express themselves freely without resorting,” Denmark said, refuting Goldfarb by saying that white or Asian students face more difficulties going to school.