Senior Director of Center for Accountability in Medicine @DoNoHarm; Senior Fellow @EF_Institute; “Merchant of doubt.”
Joined November 2023
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1/ Voters across the country will soon consider ballot measures touching on gender identity and DEI . Here's what they should know:
8/ Meanwhile, Washington's Initiative 001 would restore parents' right to advance notice when public schools offer their children non-emergency medical services, potentially including “gender-affirming” care.
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9/ Finally, Colorado Prop 134 would establish that all K-12 and collegiate sports are based on participant sex. Prop 135 would prohibit "surgery on a minor for the purpose of altering the minor’s biological sex characteristics." donoharmmedicine.org/2026/10…
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Did you know that DEI actually harms black individuals?
Here's three things about DEI in healthcare that you should know ➡️
@PeerReReview
Newton gave us the laws of motion. Einstein gave us relativity. Marmot gave us “give every child the best start in life” and “create fair employment.”
Addressing health equity and its major challenges - The Lancet Public Health
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NEW: Abdul El-Sayed has emphasized his experience as a public health official serving the everyman. But his public health SCHOLARSHIP reveals an extreme view cloaked in academic jargon:
In several papers, he implies Arabs should remain in enclaves and that assimilating to America and having white neighbors poses a health hazard.
"It seems to be basically advocating Arab separatism by couching it in pseudoscientific terms." - @PeerReReview
Researchers have long said studies like El-Sayed's are bogus and based on stereotypes.
For example, El-Sayed argued in one paper that Arabs' health is poor because they have "a more corpulent image of beauty."
I'm a doctor and a dad. I rebuilt Detroit's health department, led Wayne County's Department of Health, Human and Veterans Services. We put glasses on kids, took on corporate polluters, eliminated medical debt.
I'm running because it just shouldn't be this hard to get by in the richest country in the world.
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It was a huge mistake to eliminate Step-1 scores and grades in the first two years of med school.
Say what you want, but grades & Step-1 scores focused students on studying actual medicine and they were fair.
OK, I'll see myself out now.
More than a decade ago, the trend led by top medical schools was 2-tier (pass/fail) grading for preclinical courses. The story of the last decade is pass/fail for core clinical clerkships (now at 12 of the top 25 schools). As a result, residency programs have more difficulty differentiating students from these schools, and students are increasingly driven to pursue extracurriculars (chiefly research/publications) and max their Step 2 score to distinguish themselves.
Putting an end to racial preference and racial separatism in medicine is now a matter of “moral injury.”
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Here's a taste of my argument in a new article on the causes and practical solutions for doctor shortages in the US in @AcademicRenewal (1/):
U.S. medical schools reject qualified applicants while hospitals increasingly rely on foreign-trained doctors to fill residency positions.
@jaypgreene on why we aren't doing more to train America's next generation of physicians
jamesgmartin.center/2026/10/…
A new health paper advocates for a post-capitalist socialist economy, which the authors say involves nationalizing banks and putting major corporations under public control.
Credit where it’s due—the authors are unusually honest about what they mean when they say health equity.
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Medical Schools Need to Open the Gates jamesgmartin.center/2026/10/…
Pretty hard to argue with this.
Nobody inspires confidence in the fight against medical misinformation like social media influencers.
In other words, the delusion that it’s possible to be neither or multiple sexes at the same time is exceptional, even within the trans-identified population.
Among youth presenting for #GenderAffirmingCare, nonbinary children and adolescents reported high gender dysphoria, with slightly lower body dissatisfaction and lower desire for some medical or surgical affirmation.
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ALT Table 2 comparing body dissatisfaction, gender dysphoria, embodiment desires, social transition, and gender expression between nonbinary (NBYP) and binary trans (BTYP) young people, showing sample sizes, percentages, means, and differences with CIs.