introduced in Congress that would ban diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in medical schools, citing the bill’s potential harrowing consequences for students and patients alike.and said the bill would require schools to stop teaching topics such as intersectionality, colonization, and white supremacy, dissolve scholarships, classes, and programming designed for students based on their racial background, and eliminate DEI offices.
Thanks to the updated formula, in 2022, the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network said that any person whose care team used the race-based equation could retrospectively have it backdated so that they could be moved up on the likes of a kidney transplant list. Some doctors also worry that anti-DEI legislation will force physicians, medical students, and educators to leave the field, worsening care and stalling research for disadvantaged populations. In a“Patients have found a variety of ways to source their medication, most of which do not come with any real monitoring or professional input,” Knoll said.