AdvertisementThat report argues that the Frakes-Gruber study, despite failing to substantiate its central claim, is used to justify the implementation of "diversity, equity, and inclusion" (DEI) policies in healthcare. In other words, the study buries the finding that black patients actually do best when treated by non-black doctors in facilities that happen to have more black doctors, which undermines the claim that black patients need to be served by black doctors. The report ignores the very question it purports to answer: whether black patients actually fare better with black doctors. Americans of all races and backgrounds deserve high-quality medical research, not political ideology disguised as science." AdvertisementUltimately, Do No Harm raises serious questions about how weak and misleading research like that in the Frakes-Gruber study is being leveraged to reshape medical education, hiring practices, and healthcare more broadly.