Devorah Goldman

Tikvah Visiting Fellow

Devorah Goldman is EPPC’s Tikvah Visiting Fellow. Her work focuses primarily on medical policy, culture, and public bioethics.

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Devorah Goldman is EPPC’s Tikvah Visiting Fellow. Her work focuses primarily on medical policy, culture, and public bioethics.

She is the editorial director of the Krauthammer Fellowship—a one-year program for young writers run by the Tikvah Fund—as well as a contributing editor at The Public Discourse, American Purpose, Mosaic, and the Solomon Journal. She runs a Substack newsletter, Side Effects, which focuses on medical culture.

Ms. Goldman’s writing has appeared in the Wall Street JournalBloomberg BNA, National Affairs, the Weekly Standard, the New Atlantis, and other publications. She previously worked as a legislative staffer in the U.S. Senate and an editor at National Affairs.

Ms. Goldman has also helped spearhead several initiatives at the Tikvah Fund. These include the creation of a curriculum on the role of the Hebrew Bible in American history, which is currently being used as part of a two-year course offered by over 20 Jewish day schools. Together with the Blackstone Legal Fellowship and the Jewish Coalition for Religious Liberty, Ms. Goldman developed Tikvah’s summer legal fellowship, which launched in May 2021.

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The AI Threat to Medical Decision Making

Devorah Goldman

Will large-language models help or harm patients and doctors?

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Side Effects / November 1, 2024

Reflections on Avelut

Devorah Goldman

Most Americans will not begin adopting avelut practices in any kind of wholesale manner. But it offers insights into the human condition that may nonetheless be helpful—about the timing of the grief cycle, the need to honor the departed free from distraction, and how communities might adopt robust mourning structures to support those who are suffering.

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Public Discourse / October 1, 2024

Panicked Patients, Bewildered Doctors: How the immediate release of test results upends medical communication

Devorah Goldman

The 21st Century Cures Act poses unintended risks to patients and physicians.

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Side Effects / June 24, 2024

The Conspiracists

Devorah Goldman

This moment, among other things, may call for something as banal as looking around, embracing and underscoring the figures and images that capture what is enduringly good about normal American life.

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Public Discourse / April 16, 2024

It’s “Time to Think” about the Irreversible Damage of Shoddy Sciences: A Review of Hannah…

Devorah Goldman

Barnes repeatedly emphasizes the many parents or clinic employees who had tried to sound the alarm but whose warnings were ignored by clinic authorities.

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Public Discourse / January 30, 2024

The Enduring Deceptions of the Dutch Protocol

Devorah Goldman

Puberty as disease and the creation of the “sexless adult”

Side Effects / September 8, 2023

How Gender Activists Defaced Pediatric Medicine: An Interview with Miriam Grossman, MD

Devorah Goldman

We want people, especially young people, to have a stable sense of identity.

Public Discourse / August 17, 2023

A World That Has Disappeared

Devorah Goldman

How America’s medical system saved—and ultimately failed—David Landy

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Substack / April 3, 2023

Do Transgender Youth Benefit from Gender-Affirming Hormones? Part II

Devorah Goldman

The New England Journal of Medicine raises vital questions about its own published research

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Substack / February 15, 2023

The Long-Term Harms of Anonymous Sperm Donation

Devorah Goldman

Medical professionals have willingly abetted the conception of human beings in circumstances marked by deceit.

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Public Discourse / January 30, 2023

The Rise of the Hospitalist

Devorah Goldman

Who does your doctor work for?

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Side Effects / November 17, 2022

The Advice Column of Expressive Individualism

Devorah Goldman

The expressive individualists promised a world in which moral conventions could be cast off in favor of something more beautiful, purposeful, passionate, and true. Instead, we have been left with an aimless, bloodless, timid culture.

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Public Discourse / November 15, 2022