Medical schools have stood on the sideline long enough.
than common medications like Tylenol, penicillin and Viagra . Relying on the decision of Judge Kacsmaryk or the three-judge panel of the appellate court—all political appointees with no scientific background—to undermine the FDA’s authority constructs a harmful narrative to students that medicine, though tested and validated, can be challenged without scientific rationale.
We then spend our final years in medical school applying this scientific knowledge to direct clinical care. While this involves using our medical education to diagnose and treat patients, we are also taught to prioritize patient autonomy and choice.
The restrictions on patient autonomy are most concerning for Black, Indigenous, Latinx and other marginalized communities. We often learn how medicine has historically ignored or silenced their voices and inhibited their autonomy. Most notoriously,, a gynecologist, was known to torture Black female slaves by experimenting on them without consent or anesthesia.
The Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine—the lead plaintiff in the mifepristone lawsuit—argues that judicial oversight over the FDA is simply a system of checks and balances. To that point, some say that the FDA misused its authority when it approved mifepristone by reviewing it under an “
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