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Episode Date: March 30, 2026

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This hour of the Bill Meyer Show podcast is proudly sponsored by Klauser Drilling. They've been leading the way in Southern Oregon well drilling for more than 50 years. Find out more about them at Klausor drilling.com. Now more with Bill Meyer. Welcome to Monday, the final Monday in March of 2026. No, not the final Monday of the show. Well, I hope we never have to get to that final Monday. And I know there's a lot of war and a lot of conversation going on.

We'll certainly be digging into that a little bit later on in the program. By the way, let me just tell you the guests we have coming up today. Dr. Stanley Goldfarb actually has some great news. Goldfarb. That kind of sounds like a Bond villain's name, doesn't it? Like Dr. Stanley Goldfarb should be stroking a, you know, a hairless cat on his lap. You know? But actually, he's the CEO of Do No Harm Medicine.

Looks like there are actually some great successes in getting wokeism out of the medical world. That's been something that they've been fighting. And they're trying to attack it now through the medical schools. The medical schools, which is where all this nonsense is coming forth. But there's some good news about it, and Dr. Goldfarb will be talking more about that here in just a little bit. Now, after 7 o'clock, as far as the Iran war action or the excursion, whatever you want to call it, I don't consider myself any kind of experts on foreign affairs and certainly strategy of war and all the rest of it. And that's why I'm real happy to have Stefano Rittendale.

He's a chief intelligence officer at Arturius, which is a threat intelligence and geopolitical risk company. Well, I'm kind of thinking, and now this is just me as a regular guy, it's like it feels even though we're talking about, oh, we've destroyed everything, and they're saying we're going to continue to resist the great Satan, and we're still having problems over at the Strait of Hormuz or the Strait of Trump abuse, where he wants to rename it. He was floating that over the weekend. Do you know that? We're naming it for President Trump, the straight of Trump?

I don't know. Needless to say, heads were melting down when he kind of did that end of the side and an interview over the weekend. But anyway, the part that is striking me about this. And like I said, I'm no expert on it. I'm just talking about some guy who, you know, yeah, I'm reading Fox News and CNN, and I'm reading some other blogs. And it almost seems like sort of a strategic stalemate of some sort. Maybe I'm totally wrong about it.

I know it sounds bizarre because, you know, thousands of Iranian targets have been struck. and every time somebody holds their hand up and says hey I'd like to be a leader for Iran well then they end up being assassinated or killed in one form or another but yet there doesn't appear to be

enough movement on either side to be able to totally impose the will on the other ones you know the Iranians are still able to resist and the United States is continued to continue pounding them but you know they're you know Iran is still they still have

a government kind of decentralized everywhere. And I don't know if my look at it is wrong or not, but I'm going to talk with Stefano about that. We're also going to have local history and more with Dr. Dennis Powers, where past meets present, always a good time. And today we're going to be profiling Sid DeBorg and the Lithia Empire. And that's an interesting history. It really is.

It's been a big part of Southern Oregon for sure. You can join the conversation at 7705-633-77-O-K-MED. Speaking of the Iran war, Trump weighing military options to extract Iran's uranium. That's really this. Wall Street Journal, President Trump weighing military operation to extract about a half ton of uranium from Iran. Could be a pretty complex and risky mission that would likely put American forces inside the country for days or longer. Oil is reacting to this, of course, in continuing to inch up in price. and the gasoline price here in Southern Oregon continuing to inch up too.

I was looking at it this morning for the news reports here. It's about $4.89 for the entire state. But here in Jackson County, $4.99. Here in Josephine County, it's $0.10 more than that. So Josephine County is getting hosed a bit this morning, $509 per gallon. Now, they average everything, average all the prices. Now, I don't know if this is about, you know, if some county, uses more diesel than the price appears higher because the price of diesel considerably higher

than gasoline right now. I was filling up the van again Friday night. I'm getting ready to do some things. I'm going to move some stuff around. It's a diesel. Normally, I'm so thrilled because the diesel is generally, well, diesel used to be cheaper than gas too. Now it's considerably more expensive. Isn't that weird? Yeah. But it does have more energy. Maybe that's the way of looking at it. That's also why you can do better and more work on the same amount of fuel with diesel. So I look at the bright side on that. I was reading, though, that the Trump administration is now permitting the EPA is now permitting the amount of ethanol, of alcohol in our gasoline to be increased to try to keep the price down. In other words, the quality of our gasoline will be going down.

That's not good. So they're going to do this apparently to try to keep the price from spiking because the gasoline part of it's more expensive than the actual ethanol. The problem is that the ethanol sucks. That's just it. This whole ethanol thing was always about paying off the Iowa farm corn of corn growers and all of the farmers in the Midwest, you know, big voting block, that kind of thing. It's never made any sense. this whole idea of ethanol in gasoline that was put in. It was a great idea, I think, back when we were using carburetors,

and the whole idea was that ethanol would oxygenate the fuel somewhat, so the fuel would burn a little more cleaner or more cleanly, except that now everything's fuel injection. Fuel injection, it's a perfect burn every time. So we continue to do this, though. We continue to do this nonsense. So I guess instead of paying a five, in Josephine County, it'd be, what, 529 or 549 or something like that if it was actually

real gas? What's the price of 100% gas? Anybody have one of those? Let me know. 770-5633-770-Gamy. Did you go to No Kings this weekend? Tell me what you saw. Anything going on?

Anybody waving communist flags? Just curious. I know there were some cities in other parts of the United States in which they were openly waving communist flags. some of the festivities. Yeah, a little soft communist revolution. People in frog suits, you know, all sorts of weirdness like that. There were a couple of, no, actually three people were arrested on Saturday night in Portland

because they were trying to apparently damage the ice building and maybe try to set it on fire or something like that. And yet three people in jail on that. That's about it. It's actually pretty quiet. I didn't hear much about it. about anything going on at the No Kings. Did you?

Let me know. 7705633. I was at the Patriots rally in Grants Pass instead. That was much more fun than going to the No Kings. And gave a good talk. I kicked it off at 9 o'clock in the morning or so and gave a talk on the media and where the news really comes from. And I'll have to go into this more at some point.

I talked on it for about a half hour. It gave my history and how I ended up getting going with KMED. but the part that's really interesting when you start doing the research is looking at how closely, how closely tied in we have nonprofit organizations and foundations in the state of Oregon that are really kind of directing state policy and kind of merged with state policy and also funding the newsrooms because Oregon public broadcasting ends up really being the default news source for the entire state. It's kind of like our version of the New York Times, really.

Sets the tone and it's not behind a paywall. People are happy to go take a look at it. You know, you don't have to pay for it. And then, you know, even, you know, all the newsrooms end up kind of sucking from that teat to one form or another. And, of course, everything about OPB is not really challenging the Oregon state government authority or the narrative for the most part. But, you know, they'll do just enough in-depth reporting that we're doing our job and we're trying to keep you informed,

but they'll never really, they'll never really bite the hand that feeds them. You know, if you end up having a hospital group and up funding a lot of OPB. I mean, it's really interesting when you look at all the foundations that fund OPB. OPB and the Oregonian. Those are really the two motherships of where most of the statewide news ends up coming in and being distributed. And then really, if you're looking for independent news, you're going to have to start going and paying more for the substacks and the Oregon Roundup was kind of my takeaway. You know, the Jeff Eagers, the independent reporters, the Nigel Jayquist's of the world. You know, they'll talk with Lars every now and then.

That's where you're going to have to go because otherwise you're just getting the, the leftist spew coming out of the OPB ecosystem. And I would imagine that since a third of OPB's budget is, or at least was, from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and CPB got defunded by Congress in January of this year, they're likely going to be replacing those funds. Now, I know they'll say, well, we're going to get our listeners to start giving us more, and you'll have more of those things like, you know,

and by listeners and viewers like you, you know, but I'd be willing to bet it's going to be more of a nonprofit foundation once again, funding even more of the coverage. Let's keep an eye on it, but that's what I was talking about. Gregory Wrightstone ended up giving a great talk on the CO2, from the CO2 Coalition, and a wonderful conversation about how carbon is actually,

CO2 is actually beneficial to us and to stop the nonsense. About the CO2 is going to kill us. And oddly enough, I watched a movie over the weekend that talked about an Earth extension kind of event. It was really good. I'll talk about that here in just a minute. And I'm also happy to take your calls if you have something on your mind. Were you at No Kings?

What did you see? What did you say? What did you think? 770K. Amy D. Surprise! There's another page. Hi, I'm Megan McPherson with the McPherson. and insurance agency, and I'm on KMED.

25 minutes after 6, we're going to be talking about while getting pushed out of medicine, which I think is pretty during good news. Number one at the box office over the weekend, ended up being the Hail Mary Project. London, I went to that yesterday. London and I haven't gone to movies for quite some time. We don't normally do a lot of it, and because most of what has been in the theater,

it's either what Fast and Furious 21, you know, the 21st version of some sequel, you know, that kind of thing. Oddly enough, I think Scream 7 is out. I've never seen a scream movie. I'm just not a big horror movie. I just look at the news cycle, and I think that's plenty of horror to have to endure.

I'm just not as much into the horror as I once was, I think as a teenager. But needless to say, you what? And it was an absolutely fabulous movie. There's not a whole lot that I can say bad about this. It's just the Hail Mary Project, just amazing.

Ryan Gosling, by the way, is a producer of that and also stars in the show. So he obviously has a lot of skin in this game. and it's science fiction with a heart. And I love science fiction. And it was well done. It was a great story. The Hail Mary, or Project Hail Mary is what it was called.

And this movie didn't have any sex in it. I don't think there are any cuss words in it whatsoever. And yet it was thoroughly entertaining. and it essentially was one of these existential end-of-the-world kind of scenarios, sort of like an Armageddon. You know, the Armageddon, okay, here comes the big, you know, the big meteor or whatever it is, the big asteroid that's going to take out humanity. And so Bruce Willis has to go to bat here.

Well, this wasn't like that. Ryan Gosling was a high school science teacher. And he had studied microbiology. He was pretty much an expert on this. and what happened is that there was kind of a space microbe. I'm not going to give away the whole thing. I'm just going to just the basics of it. But a space microbe is eating the sun and eating star systems, essentially.

And the danger was not global warming. They had predicted that within the next 30 years or so, one-fourth of the Earth would die off because the temperature of the Earth was going to decline by 10 to 15 degrees. Big deal, right? And that kind of goes down to what Gregory Wrightstone was talking about at the Patriots Conference on Saturday for all this bleeding about, oh, climate change and warmer, warmer temperatures means more humans survive. And it's overall better for life. Well, this movie was going down to what would happen if you end up having the sun starting to dim.

And the Earth has usually been much colder than it is right now. In fact, usually the brutal truth of life on earth is that it's brutal, cold, and not very present. The ice age has come and everything dies. You know, we look at all these mountains that have been shaved off and the Great Plains where mountains used to be and boom. All that kind of stuff. We don't like to think about that, but that's the truth of the matter, that we should actually be feeling good about being as warm as we are. Now the water problem we have here in Southern Oregon because of not having snowpack, it's another thing. But that's because of the stupidity that we don't want to put up dams and reservoirs, right?

Always trying to guarantee on snow to be able to store water all the way through. But anyway, Ryan Gosling ends up being pressed into service and is sent off to a star system, comes across an alien, and they start both negotiating on and trying to stop. study how to save the world, how to save the star systems and go back home. It was a well-done story. I would imagine the critics will say that the alien may have been a little E.T.ish, of sort, a little cartoonish at some point, but still I didn't think that was that big of a deal. It was just a fabulous, fabulous movie.

You could take anybody to that film, and they would enjoy it. As far as the kids, I don't know if I take little kids to it. It's a long movie. Very long movie. It's like by today's standards, two hours and 20-something minutes it was. But I would say maybe 12-year-olds on up. I can't say enough good things about it. I didn't know Hollywood could do a movie like that any longer, but it did.

Great story. Project Hail Mary. You want to go see that movie. It is worth the money. The one thing I will tell you, though if you're going to go see Project Hail Mary, you do not go at the at the showtime.

We bought tickets online, went in there, got in there and let's see, the start time supposedly is 520. We know that they're going to be running some ads and some and some previews, some trailers, right?

Previews and trailers ran from 517, 17 after 5 Sunday afternoon. The movie did not start till 604. Yes, 43, 47 minutes of commercials and ads and trailers before the movie starts. I don't want to hear anybody complaining about any commercial load that I have on my radio station after having gone to Tinsletown. Oh my gosh, I couldn't believe that. But anyway, great movie, okay?

Next time just buy the tickets in advance and show up five or ten minutes prior, okay? Anyway, hi, KMED. This must be Francine. Good to have you on. Good morning, Bill. Yeah, I just wanted, by the way, thank you for giving me a little heads up on the movie. I kind of looked online and didn't think it was going to be that great, but maybe it's worth taking a look at. I was really surprised.

I really enjoyed it. We both thoroughly enjoyed it, really did. That's always really great when you're not sure about a movie, and you go in there, and you go, wow, this is. actually good. Yeah. And it's the number one film of the country this weekend, and it deserves to be. And I think something tells me Ryan Gosling probably wasn't paid a lot for the role because he's producer. I have a feeling he's taking percentage. He has to be happy about it right about now, I would think. Well, listen, the reason I called, I just have a kind of a short comment to make. You know, on Sundays I tend to listen to, what is it, KSQRs at the public station? They play a group Bluegrass on Sunday morning, and I happen to be a very big fan of that kind of music.

Good for you. I like that, too. Go ahead. Yeah. And so anyways, when the show ended, you know, I wasn't really paying attention, and I didn't rush over and turn off the radio or anything. And they started playing some other stuff, and they had this young woman, some new musician, new singer, songwriter. They played a song of hers. And so it's called something about being happy.

I don't remember exactly what it was. You know, I want to be happy or something like that. And she starts singing, and it's kind of like I'm going, oh, God, you know, blah, blah, blah. And I start listening, and she's saying things like, and I was a teacher and a blah, blah, blah, blah, you know, and a pillar of my community and blah, blah, blah, blah, and I just want some respect. And so I realize what she's singing about is, you know, the illegal aliens, you know, the undocumented or something like that. And it just really rubbed me raw because she's talking about how she wants to be respected.

But then these people come to our country and don't respect our country enough to approach it legally. Yeah. Now, was she singing about them or did it just strike you that she was saying that story? No, she was singing that was kind of, you know, I mean, it seemed pretty obvious. Oh, it's in other words. She was an illegal alien, is what you're saying. I don't know. Yeah, she might have been or she might not have been or she was just one of these people that, you know, puts the, what do you call it, the thing, the heart on her sleeve or something. I don't really know. You know, I didn't pay that much attention when it started, but it's just, God, it makes me mad. People come to this country, totally disrespecting us in our country.

And then demanding respect and benefits, you know? Yeah. Demanding respect and benefits. It's just like, you know, out with ye. Okay. Well, you know, and the most part, the most important aspect, the benefits and everything, yeah, we all, we've been over that a whole lot and everything. But the fact that they want to be respected without giving respect, that is a very deep thing that people are kind of glossing over that aspect of it. That's a great point. Respect is a two-way street, and it starts with respect of our laws, too. Great point.

And thanks for making it, Francine. KMED, this is the Bill Meyer show. Turning 65 is a big milestone, and with it comes one of the most important decisions you'll make, choosing the right Medicare coverage. Hi, I'm Kelly Bales with Vecherty First in Medford, and we want to make sure you get it right. First in her apartment, a pipe that made her sense of reality and apartment's ceiling all come crashing down. Luckily, Morgan checked into Progressive's Protection Zone. Get a quote at progressive.com. Progressive Casualty Insurance Company affiliates and third-party insurers.

You're hearing the build. Myers Show on 1063 KMED. Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, M.D., proud to have him back. He is chair of Do No Harm Medicine.org, former associate dean at the University of Pennsylvania's Perlman's School of Medicine. Dr. Goldfarb, it is great to have you back. Welcome, sir. Good to be with you, sir.

Everything about Do No Harm Medicine is really about getting meritocracy back in the medical world and getting rid of woke and any kind of DEI or any kind of special. treatment. Isn't that pretty much what you're all about, doctor? Oh, that's a perfect description. Absolutely. We're also very concerned about gender affirming care for children and preventing children from being harmed by that activity. That's our other main mission, but you've got it right on the butt. I don't know if you keep track of that, but I noticed that Heritage Foundation was reporting over the weekend that there was a trans man or actually a girl identifying as a boy,

ended up, is in jail now accused of murdering her mother and murdering the boyfriend of the mother, apparently, because of misgendering, apparently. So getting pretty serious about that, aren't they? These are very troubled people, particularly the children. And, you know, I'm not surprised that there's a high rate of violence associated with it because they need intense psychiatric and psychological

care rather than hormones and surgery and all sorts of things that have been prescribed for them. Yeah. Yeah, we weren't going to talk about that particular story today, but couldn't help a note that when you mentioned the transgender issue. But I wanted to talk about the Liaison Committee on Medical Education. This is a group that accreditates medical schools or says that a medical school is qualified, a good school. In other words, it's where someone could go.

Is that pretty much what they are? about LCME? Yes, that's right. They are, actually, they have two parent bodies, one of which is the AMA, and the other one is the deans of medical schools have an organization called the Association for Medical, the American Association for Medical Colleges. And so they basically are the accrediting body. You can't get a medical license unless you go to an accredited medical school.

So realize medical schools are basically monitoring themselves about how they run medical education. And that's been problematic because they've decided, as you mentioned in the beginning of this, that Woke is an important issue for teaching medical students, and that's really undermined medical education to a great degree. It's wasted huge amounts of time, and it's produced a system in which people are admitted into medical school based on how they look rather than totally on how their academic achievements have gone. Is it that kind of situation that we've read about which, well, I know even in the Oregon Health Authority, they'll put out some sort of study, they'll say, you know, that there are better medical outcomes

for someone who is black, let's say, if they have a black doctor, that's essentially what they would come out and say it, except I'm not aware of any peer-reviewed real study that really demonstrates this, but this is something that the state of Oregon is an example, as an example, is just completely all in on. But this is infecting the entire medical education system, does it not? Yeah, no, you're absolutely right. This has been the argument that black patients need black doctors. It's called racial concordance. And in fact, our organization has studied this very carefully.

And there are over 60 studies of this in the medical literature. And there are systematic reviews. There are six systematic reviews of this question. And it's a very important question because if it were true, then that would be a justification for all of this political identity as a focus of medical admissions. But in fact, as you said, it's just not true. The vast bulk of the evidence shows that there's no benefit. And it's pretty hard to imagine why there would be a benefit.

And on top of which is black patients really don't want black doctors, per se. They want the best doctors. And we've done studies of this. We've done polling of black patients. And there are multiple studies in the literature that show this that black patients, they're not stupid. They want the best doctor. They want to have the best health outcome.

They don't want to engage in woke activities as a surrogate for them getting the best health care. Just like if I were a criminal or needing a criminal defense attorney, I wouldn't be caring about the color or the race of the defense attorney. It's like, is this defense attorney good and will they help with my case, right? Or a pilot and your airplane or someone who's designed the bridge that you drive over every day. In every case, you'd want the most qualified person. So back then to the liaison committee on medical education, what happened with them recently that it kind of goes against this woke agenda? You wrote about this in a Fox opinion piece recently.

Right. So what's happened with them, the way they perform their accreditation is that they lay out. a bunch of standards that medical schools have to achieve, and then medical schools go and try to show them that they've followed those standards. In past years, they've had standards that talked about making sure that students are taught about anti-racism, that they're talked about bias, that they're talked about all of the ways that systemic racism has heard black people. And over the years, because of pressure from like President Trump's executive orders, and as well as activities of my organization and others, they've started to change that because they've

come under criticism. But they've kept, you know, certain standards in there still that say they have to teach about health equity and they have to teach about community issues. And finally, finally, our organization, which monitors them very closely, saw that they had eliminated the last vestige of the demand that medical schools have woke activities, teach about community. activities, teach about social justice as part of medical education. Now, this doesn't prevent medical schools from teaching it, but they can no longer say, well, we have to teach these topics because the accrediting body tells us we have to teach it, and we don't want to lose our accreditation. Oh, that's the way it is. You know, you lose your accreditation, then you're

not official, I guess, or you're not considered good. And then the students can't get their medical license, and they can't practice medicine unless they graduate from an accredited medical school. Okay. And the LCME is the only accreditor in the United States. Oh, okay. So they accredit all the medical schools in this country? All. All. That's a big deal. It is a big deal. And it's a problem because whenever you have one group as the only ones that are doing something, they're going to do it the way they want as opposed to possibly the best way for whatever it is they're trying to monitor. And there's a real push that we've been urging.

and the president signed an executive order to this extent that there ought to be other accreditors and that schools ought to have a choice of who they want to accredit them so that it follows their interests rather than the demands of the accreditor. Okay. So what role does the American Medical Association play in pressuring the accrediting agency, LCME, to go to its ideology? Well, it is the – there are two parent bodies of the L-C-M-E. It's called the liaison committee because it's the liaison between the AMA and the Association of American Medical Colleges.

The Association of American Medical Colleges is controlled by the deans of medical schools. They sit on the board and they have the most votes as to how, what policies this committee is going to enact when it does its accreditation. And the AMA is in cahoots, if you will, with the deans of medical schools to push whatever ideology they are particularly interested in the AMA over the the past several years has been quite interested in pushing woke ideology for reasons that are unclear. It may be part of the reason they've lost so many members. There are something like 900,000 doctors in the United States. Only about 150 or so thousand of them have joined the AMA anymore. And part of it is because the AMA has sort of acted as an agency that doesn't really care

that much what its constituents really think. You know, it's really interesting. I mean, I talk every now and then with people from the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons. I don't know if you're familiar with that group or not. I am very familiar. They're a very fine group. Yeah, very fine group. And they've decried this whole like AMA monopoly on things, but that's been part of the accreditation process, too, is what you're telling me.

Yes, absolutely. Okay. The AMA is very wealthy because it controls sort of the codes that are used for determining the, medical activities and and they own that system and they get huge royalties associated with it. So that's, and that and they run insurance companies out of the AMA. That's how they make a lot of money and they use that money and that power to influence medical practice and way out of proportion to, you know, their membership amongst American physicians. Dr. Stanley Goldfarb once again, he's the chair of Do No Harm, Do No Harm Medicine.org.

I guess the question here is, before I go to the calls here, doctor, now that LCME has stopped forcing or requiring DEI to be in the medical schools, if you want to be accredited, are the medical schools dropping it, or are they not, you know? Well, we have to see. I mean, this is what we monitor. We have an index that we publish each year of American medical schools and how woke, if you will, they really are. We look to see whether they have offices that are devoted to DEI, whether they have, whether they're admitting students, minority students that have much lower academic, sorry, that.

Yeah, doctor, you okay? Much lower academic credentials than others, for example, whites and Asians. And we just keep an eye out for that. There are some schools that have continued down this path. A couple of them, including Eastern Virginia Medical School is one, and the University of Wisconsin Medical School have a terrible record where a minority student has a much greater chance of getting into medical school than a white or an Asian student that has far better academic credentials.

And we see this all over the country. So this is an ongoing battle. Is there any evidence that you're aware of that indicates that the DEI agenda gets covered up, so to speak, by the introduction of artificial intelligence into medical schools and medical education in which, well, we don't need to have as strong of students because we have AI backing them up. I'm just curious. Is there any evidence? Oh, no, that's, you know, absolutely. That's been an argument. But the overwhelming argument that's been made is that these minority students that are taken in in the name of DEI are good enough. They're good enough. And

with technology and with artificial intelligence and with advanced medical imaging, they can do the job well enough. I don't think that's what most patients really want. They really don't want good enough or well enough. They want the best that's available. They want the most brilliant physicians that they can deal with. And unfortunately, or fortunately, you know, cognitive ability and clarity of thinking is an important part of being a good doctor, and you want people that are best at that. And, you know, there are some minority students and minority doctors who are fantastic and are completely capable and top of the game.

But there are others that are taken in because of the idea that the need for this diversity that aren't up to the game. And that's the problem, and it's hard to know who's who in it. And it ends up demeaning all of the minority doctors that are talented and brilliant and very capable. Well, sure. You look at a minority doctor then. You're thinking, okay, you were hired, not because you are a great doctor,

but because you had the right color. And that's really demeaning to their achievements, really. It's interesting. My op-ed in Fox News was partly in response to an editorial that was in the Wall Street Journal about this issue, which they mentioned, do no harm in me, which I was happy to see. And there was a letter to the editor today from the head of the double AMC, part of the LCME parent body, saying that what we're doing is we're eroding trust in medicine,

and it's a terrible thing. That's like saying you identify a problem, and you shouldn't bring it up because people might think there's a problem. Yeah, yeah. How dare you identify that maybe unqualified people are being pushed through medical school? What could go wrong with such a thing? All right. And let me say one of the thing. He makes the point in there that,

there's a 98% completion in six years for medical school, except medical school is four years. So if it's taken some people six years to get through, it means they're having problems. And it's true in medical school. Almost everyone ends up getting through medical school through coaching. That's not true in law school. It's not true in nursing school. It's not true in engineering school. It's not true in many, many pursuits.

But in medicine, everybody gets through because when they start taking in students that are less well-qualified, they have to have all kinds of coaching and remediation mechanisms to make sure that they get through. And that's what's going on. And that means, though, that's an indicator that they don't really have the necessary rigor and or perhaps even just natural talent for the field, really. Yeah, well, I think what's happened is the rigor has declined in part because of the fact that they're admitting people that have trouble getting through the curriculum. And in part, it's because there's been a mentality amongst educators in general, you know, that rigor and education is something that needs to be avoided.

We've seen this over and over again in colleges where students, you know, are reported at University of California in San Diego where 40% of the students couldn't do math. I don't know if you've seen recent reports like that. So this is just filtered through all aspects of education, including medical education. Dr. Stanley Goldfar, once again, do no harm. Do No Harm Medicine.org. Let me go to, I think this is Tom. Tom, you are a medical professional here. I imagine you have something to say on this world, on this situation, with Dr. Goldfarb.

Go ahead. Yeah, here in Oregon, for any medical personnel to renew their license, they have to take a course called culture competency. And the underlying assumption is that if you're white, you're privileged racist, that doesn't know that you're privileged racist. And the course consists of hour after hour of pablum that 99.99% of doctors learned in the sandlot in kindergarten. So we're just, you're just assaulted by this absolutely inane platitude. And is this part of being able to get your license, Tom? Yes, yes. In order to renew your license, they want to shovel wokenism down your throat,

whether you wanted it or not. It's horrible. It's such a, it's such a diversion of time, money, and energy, and resources away from something that could be useful. Instead, hour after hour of pablam being shoveled down your throat, it's horrible. So my question is, what's the best way to get rid of this crap? Thank you, Tom. Dr. Tom is right. And this is something my organization has worked on, in fact, in Michigan, and I believe we tried to introduce this in Oregon, was to have a course, a continuing medical

education course that would satisfy the requirements, but would not preach this kind of pablum and inane silliness. And he's absolutely right. You could say in one lecture, look, it's not good to be poor, and poor people may have trouble accessing the health care system, and we need to be particularly vigilant about that, period. That would cover the whole issue here, but instead they try to teach medical students

and now trying to teach practicing physicians and to be social workers. We have social workers. There's no need to create another core of social workers and to waste the time of physicians, particularly the valuable time once they're in practice and force them into these continuing courses. So we have this course in Michigan.

We've been challenged about it because people reject the fact that the course teaches a different ideology, if you will. It teaches that the reason that there's health care disparities has more to do with behavior of patients and has to do with access to the health system is not because physicians are racist and that there's no real evidence that physicians are racist. So he's absolutely right. And I hope he will join Do No Harm because that's what we fight against. We've tried to pass laws in states.

We've stopped the law in Pennsylvania from having the same sort of requirement for medical licensure. We continue to fight it around the country. Doctor, it's a pleasure talking with you about this this morning, and where can people go find out more? I'm certainly going to link to your op-ed piece, too, but this is a big deal. And so we're starting to see some cracks in the DEI facade, and that's a good thing. It's a good thing, but I have a feeling there's going to be a lot more work to do here. Yeah, it's a marathon. It's not a sprint, unfortunately.

Where do people find out more? Is it just the main website, or do you have any other information out that we should know about? Well, that's the best thing. Do knowharmnedicin.org, one word, and we have over 50,000. We have 54,000 members now. About half of them are health care workers of one sort or another, and we encourage them to join. It doesn't cost anything to join, and we just look. for people that will help us restore American medicine to what it was and what it should.

Yeah, anything that helps us restore that pursuit of excellence, so that when you see a doctor or nurse or any other medical professional, you're not worried about whether or not they were pushed into the system through some sort of incentive program rather than the fact that they were just really good in what they did. That's what we're hoping for. Doctor, a pleasure, and thanks so much for having been on the show. I appreciate the good news.

Thank you. Thank you. Thanks very much. Bye-bye. Dr. Stanley Goldfarb. And once again, do-no-harmmedicine.org. This is News Talk 1063, KMED. And you're waking up with the Bill Myers Show. It's a minute after seven. We'll check the latest in Fox News coming up,

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