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